Critics have described his music as “penetrating and magnetic, with pure, archaic vocals and sounds capable of conveying the rapture of movement and the silent dialogue between body and space.” “A composer of restless imagination, Paolo Tortiglione moves freely across dance, theater, orchestra, organ, chamber, and solo music, weaving advanced electroacoustic techniques into works that feel at once ancient and alive.”
His production is rooted in the tradition and Renaissance contrapuntal technique and serves as a conscious junction point for various languages, seeking to continue affinities with both the remote and recent past, while looking toward a possible future.
Thanks to the strong rhythmic energy that characterizes the strength of his music, Paolo Tortiglione collaborates regularly with choreographers, dance companies, and theater directors, as well as hosting various programs on Rai Radio3, where he has produced over 70 broadcast and podcast. In addition to large-scale dance performances, his compositions have received awards in numerous international competitions and have been recorded by various labels as well has been performed at major international and national contemporary music festivals in Europe, the United States, and Middle East countries.
He holds four degrees, specialized at the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, and has been a Composition professor since 1995. He has taught at the conservatories in Turin and Milan, and currently holds this position at the Conservatorio San Pietro a Majella in Naples. As the author of dozens of articles and a book on Semiotics in four languages, and as a contributor to De Agostini, Treccani, Oxford University Press. His scores are published by EdiPan, Volontè, Da Vinci, Curci, Berben.
VITO MANCUSO
“I listened carefully to your compositions and experienced moments of genuine joy. There were moments of real emotional transport, especially in the lullaby that the Madonna sang to the Child and in some extraordinary passages of the organ piece Candor Est Lucis Aeternae. Thank you truly for this privilege. {…} and once again my deepest thanks, above all for the gift of your extraordinary music.”