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Massimo Carpegna, (French pronunciation: [ʃɑ.ji]; born 8 March 1955) is an Italian conductor.
Biography
After concluding the Scientific Lyceum studies with the highest, he graduated in Choral Music and Conducting at Antonio Vivaldi Conservatoire (Alessandria, Italy) and he specialized in Orchestra Conducting (Accademia Musicale Chigiana, Siena; Verona Arena; Accademia Ottorino Respighi, Rome) with Maestro Franco Ferrara, who was teacher of Riccardo Muti, Riccardo Chailly and some of the most prestigious Italian and European orchestra conductors. For the Alpine Ski World Championship opening ceremony, Bormio 2005, he composed the lyrical-symphonic official anthem It's Time to Celebrate, world widely transmitted; for the Italian Winter Sports Federation (FISI) he composed the official anthem Honour and Glory, presented at Herbert Von Karajan Theatre in St. Moritz. Carpegna also composed the anthem The Five Rings for the celebration of the Italian athletes during the Olympic Games in Turin, 2006, transmitted by RaiSat Sport, as well as scores for commemorative celebrations (e.g. Modena Volley, Regiment of Sardinia's Grenadier...) and soundtracks for celebratory documentaries (St. Geminiano – The Community and The Saint of Modena, city of the Estensi).
He taught Chamber Music and Orchestral Practice at Dall'Abaco music Conservatoire (Verona) and since 1984 he's been teaching Choral Practice, Orchestral Practice, Orchestra Conducting, Choral Composition and Conducting laboratory, Music and Moving Image (Masterclass) at Orazio Vecchi-Antonio Tonelli music Conservatoire in Modena. In 2012 he started conducting the Gospel Choir Serial Singers, Modena, one of the most popular choir in the national territory with many concerts and the support of the Giuseppe Verdi Symphony Orchestra, Parma. He worked as Choir Conductor in some operas: La bohème (Giacomo Puccini) with Luciano Pavarotti, Tosca(Giacomo Puccini) with Raina Kabaivanska, Boris Godunov (opera) (Modest Mussorgsky), Otello (Giuseppe Verdi) with Nicola Martinucci, The Canterville ghost by Claudio Scannavini and he was Concertmaster and conductor for The little Sweep by Benjamin Britten.
In January 2015 he was in the concert in honor of Karl Jenkins at Carnegie Hall in New York City as conductor of the choir and the Distinguished Concerts International New York invited Carpegna on April the 3th 2016 at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts (Avery Fisher Hall) for the world premiere of his cantata Speculum Magiae for baritone, choir and orchestra conducted by Jonathan Griffith.
Active as a conference speaker, especially on Giacomo Puccini’s theatre (Manon Lescaut, Bohème, Tosca, Butterfly, Turandot, Aida (Giuseppe Verdi), Carmen (George Bizet) with the cooperation of the Raina Kabaivanska’s opera students masterclass, published on DVDs he also organised the tutorial with Mirella Freni, The Puccinian Heroines (1994), and for the twenty-fifth anniversary of Luciano Pavarotti in theatres he collaborated at the documentary Luciano Pavarotti and the Italian Tenor (1989), produced by the New York Center of Visual History and South Carolina Educational Television. In 1986 Carpegna conducted the Choir of the Conservatoire Vecchi Tonelli in a Christmas Concert with Luciano Pavarotti at the Cathedral of Modena.
Carpegna has worked as lecturer of Industrial Filming and Cinematography, Music Video Production Lab and Audio Video Editing at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia, faculty of Business and Marketing. He also followed the Master in Film Sonorization as Programme leader. He worked as Artistic Consultant for the Coro Lirico Teatro Regio of Parma, Consultant for the National Research Council (Italy) for the constitution of an informative archive on the lyrical European production. Musical Director of the American society Sounds of Hope Ltd, Saint Paul, Minnesota, Principal Conductor of the Chamber Orchestra for the Civic Theatre in Vercelli, Vicedirector and responsible of the laboratory of psycho-musical research IRPAIAC (European Institute of Research, Rehabilitation and Psycho-musical Reeducation of the Aosta Association International Art Center).
Other activities
Massimo Carpegna has collaborated for ten years with Mediagroup (Modena, Italy), one of the most important and influential agencies of communication and marketing, working as editor and composer for more than two hundreds productions for Confindustria, LegaCoop, AssoCamereEstero UNIMORE, Conad, Casa Modena, Fini etc. He then founded the production company Moviegroup, Industrial Film Production Srl and directed adverts for Mediaset, promoting documentaries for publishing houses, industries and multinational companies and television productions that are broadcast nationally. Professional Apple trainer for audio and video editing at SPEL, a Macintosh Concessionaire in Modena.
Books
Carpegna wrote the manual To Make a Choir (Dino Audino ed., Rome, 2006) and Commercial, a 30 Seconds long Film (Franco Angeli ed., Milan, 2008) both currently in use as University texts. In 2010 he published his first narrative book, the conspiracy thriller Allah's fire (Spring, Caserta), in 2012 the crime story There, she will fall in flight (Firenze Libri, Florence) and in 2015 the spy story Fire and Storm (E-book, Modena).