Giacomo Plantini (1967 - present)

Introduction
Born on February 13th, 1967 in Gattinara, Italy, Giacomo Plantini is an Italian composer who mostly writes chamber music and has been performed in the Americas, Asia, and Europe. Plantini studied piano with Remo Remoli at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Turin, Italy, graduating in 1989, and then studying piano again with Marian Mika at the Accademia Internazionale di Musica in Novara, Italy, graduating in 1994. After, he went on to study composition with Ivan Fedele at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Como, Italy, graduating in 1997, and also at the Conservatoire à rayonnement régional de Strasbourg, France, where he graduated in 2000.

Plantini is one of the founding members of the PRISMA project, which brings together a group of international composers who work on computer-aided composition and musical research. He is also a member of the SYNTONO project and a board member of The Villa of Composer, which aims to promote and preserve contemporary music.

Currently, he is a composition and computer-aided composition professor at the Conservatoire de Musique de Montbéliard in France and at the IUP – Université de Franche-Comté of Montbéliard in France.

5 sourvenirs (doux) (2017)
5 souvenirs (doux) was premiered by Transient Canvas at the Alba Music Festival in Alba, Italy on May 29th, 2017.

Awards and Honors
Plantini received a scholarship from the Associazione Giosuè Carducci in Como, Italy in 1996.

He also was awarded the Premio Lucus in the Gesualdo da Venosa in Potenza competition in 1997 for his work Inachis.