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Composer · 1986 —

Art & commissions

Museums, orchestras, dance and film

Site-specific music for museums, works for orchestra, ballet scores and film.

Since 1986 Cesare Picco has written ballets, operas, music for theatre and special projects performed worldwide. As a composer he has written for soloists, chamber ensembles and orchestras such as I Virtuosi Italiani, Berlin Chamber Soloists and the Moscow State Symphony Orchestra.

Special events with site-specific music have been performed at the Whitney Museum in New York, the Hara Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo, the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice and Hangar Bicocca in Milan.

  • “La tenda rossa” for string orchestra — commissioned by the Mart museum, Rovereto (2021); premiere at Teatro Ristori, Verona, 2023
  • “Calling Bach — Spirits from BWV” — original music for the ballet choreographed by Camilla Monga; Teatro Ristori, Verona, 2023
  • “Onde radicali” — documentary soundtrack; Rome Film Fest, 2021
  • “La guerra d’Italia a 3000 metri sull’Adamello” (1916) — original live score; Cineteca Milano, 2024
  • “Spirit of the Piano [Piano no Tamashii]” — short film written and directed by Cesare Picco for Yamaha Music Europe