About Valerio Sannicandro

Valerio Sannicandro, born 1971 in Bisceglie, Italy, studied composition with York Höller and Hans Zender and conducting with Peter Eötvös in Germany. He acquired his PhD with a thesis on “Composition as a semiotic process”. As a conductor he participated in the realization of the world premiere of Stockhausen’s “Hoch-Zeiten”. Sannicandro was awarded numerous prizes, such as the Kranichsteiner Musikpreis of the Darmstädter Ferienkurse in 2000, where he was active as a teacher in 2002. In his compositions Valerio Sannicandro intensively addresses the problems of spatialization of sound.
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