A short biography
At the piano (photo by A. Cosmelli)
Leandro Piccioni lives in Rome.
Co-Author of the opera "The Magic Flute for Orchestra di Piazza Vittorio", a processing and rewriting of the Mozart's Magic Flute, produced by the Romaeuropa Foundation and Les Nuits de Fourvière Lyon, which led him to play and directing in Les Nuits de Fourvière Lyon, the Athens & Epidaurus Festival, the Grec Theatre in Barcelona, the Luxor Theatre Rotterdam, the Olimpic Theatre in Rome, the Ferrara Comunal theatre, and Pavarotti theatre in Modena.
Recently he wrote, with Mario Tronco, the elaboration of the opera Carmen par l’orchestra di Piazza Vittorio by Bizet, rappresented from the 23th to 26th of june 2013 in Lyon.
He has composed some movie soundtracks like the Soffiantini Kidnapping, the Last Bullet, The Homicide Squad, Assunta Spina, Rebecca the First Wife, In Your Dreams and The Soul’s Haven, for which he received the Popular Jury Award at the Lagonegro film festival in 2003.
He has also orchestrated and conducted the non-original film score for Lascia Perdere Johnny by Fabrizio Bentivoglio, receiving a nomination for the 2008 David di Donatello Prize for the song Amore Fermati.
He formed an important artistic alliance with Carmelo Bene who took him, as his ‘esteemed musician’, to the Venice Biennial in 1989, the performance of Pentesilea at the Rome Teatro Olimpico in 1990 and Macbeth in the following years.
He has performed for a lot of Ennio Morricone's soundtracks, as Ripley's Game, Gino Bartali, The Provincial, Giovanni Falcone, Baaria and many others. With Ennio Morricone he has done, from all over the world with the Rome Sinfonietta Orchestra, the Santa Cecilia Orchestra, the Moscow Radio Orchestra, the Spanish TV Madrid Orchestra and many others.
He has also played soundtracks by Nicola Piovani, Gianni Ferrio and Riz Ortolani, and has been collaborating as well as arranging and conducting with the Piccola Orchestra Avion Travel.
Currently it has an important artistic collaboration with the Pessoa Strings Quartet which has recorded a CD dedicated to the music of Piazzolla and his themes from movies, with the participation of the singer Peppe Servillo.