Angelo Colone
Biography Angelo Colone
Angelo Colone
Interpreter of the most significant repertoire for guitar of the main Italian contemporary composers, soloist appreciated by the major international musical institutions, Angelo Colone graduated and perfected with Alirio and Senio Diaz, Bruno Battisti D’Amario, Angelo Gilardino.
Angelo has been Invited to play for cultural institutions such as the National Academy of Santa Cecilia, the House of Goethe in Rome, the Chigiana Academy of Siena, the Trame Sonore Festival in Mantua. Angelo has been performing since the end of the 1980s in Italian theatres and chambers in Rome, including the Teatro Eliseo, the Teatro Olimpico, the Auditorium Parco della Musica, the Regio theater of Parma, the Metropolitan Theater of Catania, the Magliabechiano Salone in the Uffizi and the Luca Giordano Room in Palazzo Medici Riccardi, Florence.
Abroad he was invited by international cultural institutions in China, Holland, Switzerland, Malta, Belgium.
He has frequently participated in radio broadcasts e.g. RAI, RAI Inter-national and Vatican Radio stations. Also he has participated as a guest in literary events on the occasion of the presentation of new literary works by authors such as Sergio Zavoli and Luis Sepùlveda.
During his concert career Angelo took part in original research projects recorded in significant CDs, including: "Sonetterra" with the Sestetto Moderno (1997), "Sintesi" (2002), "Angelo Angelo" (2004) containing the first absolute recording of the concert for guitar and orchestra Leçons de ténèbres, by Angelo Gilardino, "Goffredo Petrassi - Works for guitar" (2007), a monograph on Mario Castelnuovo-Tedesco for the series "The Masters of the guitar" for the magazine Seicorde ( 2008) realised on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the disappearance of the Florentine composer and followed by a cycle of direct broadcasts curated by himself for Vatican Radio, ”Angelo Colone Plays Angelo Gilardino" (2012) and the most recent for Brilliant Classics “Federico Moreno Torroba, complete works for solo guitar”.
