Author: Piero Niro
Born: 18 May 1957
Bio: Piero Niro (Baranello, CB, Italy 1957). 

Piero Niro is a Composer, Pianist and Professor of Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics. 

He obtained a first-class diploma in Composition and Piano at the Conservatoire of Santa Cecilia in Rome. He also got a first-class degree in Philosophy at the University of Studies Tor Vergata in Rome. He carried postgraduate studies in Composition with Karlheinz Stockhausen and Franco Donatoni obtaining a diploma at the National Academy of S.Cecilia. 

He won several piano competitions. He played as soloist and as part of chamber music group in many cities both in Italy and Europe. 

Thanks to “Quartetto per archi” he won the first prize in the composition contest “Ennio Porrino” (1985). 

Some of his compositions have been played both in Italy and abroad (USA, Princeton, concert season of Princeton Orchestra; New York, Carnegie Hall “The week of Italian Music”; Trenton, concert season of Grater Trenton Symphony Orchestra; Russia, concert season of Symphony Orchestra of Volgograd; Brazil, concert season of Orquestra Sinfônica de Ribeirão Preto; Mexico: concert season of Orquesta Sinfónica del Estado de México; Austria, tournèe of Symphony Orchestra of Molise; Canada, Montreal, 12th World Saxophone Congress; Poland, concert seasons of Olsztin and Slupsk; Poland, Kraków, tournèe of Symphony Orchestra of Molise; Roma, Academy of France, “8° Semaine de Musique contemporaine”. In Italy his compositions have been played in several editions of “Festival of Nuova Consonanza” and also: in RAI at “ Festival of New Italian Music”,  in Milan at “Festival of Contemporary Sacred Music”, in Pesaro at “10th World Saxophone Congress”, in Gubbio at “Gubbio Festival”; in Lecce at concert season of Symphony Orchestra of Lecce; etc.). 

Some of his compositions have been broadcasted on TV and radio (Rai, Rai International, Radio France), others have even been published and recorded (RICORDI, RCA-BMG ARIOLA and EDIPAN). 

He has been musical Consultant for the central disco of Rai in Rome, vice-president of the Association “Amici della Musica” in Campobasso, advisor in the board of directors of the Association “Nuova Consonanza” in Rome. He has been part of a jury in several international composition competitions.

Since 2005 he is Artistic Director of the Association “Amici della Musica” in Campobasso.

He has been studying for several years Theory of musical language. He also published quite a few articles and essays about Musical Aesthetics such as Ludwig Wittgenstein e la musica (Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2008), Wittgenstein e l’avanguardia musicale (Il cannocchiale, Edizioni Scientifiche Italiane, Napoli, 2001), La musica e l’arte nel XIX secolo, Stravinskij e le avanguardie musicali, Momenti della musica del XX secolo (L’arte moderna by Giulio Carlo Argan; Edizioni Sansoni, Firenze, 2001).

He took part in conventions about Philosophy and Musical Aesthetics, he worked together on the teaching in History of Modern Philosophy and History of contemporary Philosophy at the University of Studies “Tor Vergata” in Rome, Department of Philosophy Researches. On that occasion he wrote an essay about Music and Theory of the perception, Descartes and Diderot, and one about Wittgenstein and Adorno, Aesthetics Considerations on the Language and the Contemporary Music Experience. 

He is Professor of Composition and Chair of the Composition Department at the Conservatoire of Music in Campobasso. He is also Professor of Philosophy of Music and Aesthetics, Analysis and Theory of Music in the same institute.