Paolo Ugoletti (contemporary)

Paolo Ugoletti was born in Brescia in 1956.    He began his musical studies under the guidance of his
mother and continued at the Consevatory of his hometown under Giancarlo Facchinetti for composition
and Giovanni Ugolini for the piano.   In 1979 he attended the Franco Donatoni’s composition courses at Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Giacomo Manzoni’s class at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory
in Milan.   In these years he began to collaborate with various musical groups and soloists such as
Monch, Scarponi, Pedron, Ballista, Gorli, Garbarino, Antonelli and Damerini.

In 1980, after he graduated in composition, he spent the summer in Stocholm and he got in touch with
the most important scandinavian musicians.   He began teaching composition at the Conservatory of
Pesaro, then he moved to Bologna and Parma Conservatories. In 1987 he was composer in residence
at the Santa Cruz University in California, on that occasion he met the music of Lou Harrison, Arvo Part,
John Adams and   Keith Jarret . He has been teacher and   faculty member at the Luca Marenzio
Conservatory in Brescia since 1989.   A long and fruitful co-operation with Sagra Musicale Umbra leads
him to compose many works.