Description
Carlo Francesco Defranceschi is a composer and multi-player. Grown within a musical background (his mother was a French contralto singer), Carlo Francesco attended the Con- servatory Giuseppe Verdi in Turin where he earned Composition, Piano and Clarinet Diplomas with honours. He also attended some contemporary composition masters in Mantua, at the local Conservatoire. He improved his musical education thanks to a National Specialization Master to refine his jazz technique in Busto Arsizio. While he was carrying out his musical studies, Carlo Francesco also graduated in Philosophy with theoretical and logical-mathematical orien- tation at the University of Turin.
He has been rewarded in several international composition contests. Since the academic year 2006/2007, he is a music teacher at the Conservatoire Lucio Campiani in Mantua and, cur- rently, he works together with conservatoires and music schools in Lombardia, Veneto, Abruzzo and Sicily.
For years 2017-19 he was a member of the Antonio Salieri Critical Edition.
His contemporary music compositions for the piano, harpsichord, organ, classical guitar, wind and string ensembles, choir and orchestra have been recorded by famous performers. Accord- ing to the Jazz Italia Notes magazine, in 2006 his quartet was placed fifth in the top ten of the Italian jazz groups. Carlo Francesco Defranceschi has composed more than 200 musical works, with 7 different international music publishers.
The next important premières are Stabat Mater par un agnostique, pour soprano, contralto, chœur et orchestre in Japan and Moby Dick lyric opera in Russia.
