Marc'antonio Modaro - Composer - Pianist

The italian Composer-Pianist Marc' antonio Modaro was born in 1964 in Pistoia but he always lived nearby in the city of Montecatini Terme. He studied piano in Firenze with Giorgio Sacchetti (who studied with pianists such as Carlo Zecchi and Benedetti Michelangeli) and Sara Benedetti . In 1990 Modaro moved to New York and he was often performing at the Steinway Hall where he quickly gained a virtuoso reputation among the other concert pianists.
He was offered to take part at the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 1993 and he was selected for a tournee' of concerts in the United States and South America, but he refused preferring to dedicate intensely to composition.
Once back in Italy he started to work on an innovative collection of piano etudes, Sonatas and Scherzos exploring new pianistic structures and harmonics textures. in 2005 with another italian composer, Giorgio Sollazzi, starts a project named "NEW COMPOSITION IN PROGRESS" who got him back to the concerts life with a successful series of concerts of contemporary music.
Being also a painter, Marc'antonio Modaro with Riccardo Lenzi and Luca Angeli started a new artistic movement the MOVIMENTO ARTISTICO PRATICOMATERIALE that proposes the total simmetry between Concept, Work, Communication and Market. In the year 2005 the Manifesto Praticomateriale is awarded by the city hall of Montecatini Terme and in 2006 their arteworks take place in the permanent collection of MUSPAC, the contemporary art museum of the city of L'AQUILA. You can visit their Web Site at : www.artepraticomateriale.com