It was Giuseppe Di Benedetto's music that won Barley over, and it was love at first listen. When the paths of Giuseppe and Claudio Trotta crossed, it was clear from the start that something was going to happen. After the experience with ArteNativa that had launched, among others, L'Aura in 2005, the Barley Arts patron decided to return to the recording production of an artist, for the simple fact that what he heard practically compelled him to do so.
And that should already be enough to get your attention.
'Répartir' is the track by Giuseppe Di Benedetto to be released in digital stores on 28 January, anticipating his debut EP to be released in early March.
Giuseppe Di Benedetto: musician, composer, pianist.
Giuseppe Di Benedetto: Sicilian, glasses, red hair, talented:
"...when I was three years old, my dad threw me into the music vortex through the music band of my small town in the Sicilian hinterland...and from there everyone realised I was not so 'normal'. He bought me cymbals, actually saucers given my size in height...I barely reached below his knee...he also played cymbals (though) in the band! And you should have seen me-listen to me...all I had to do was listen to the march to be played, and in perfect rhythmic-musical coordination, the cymbals caused that percussion that only a great 'ear player' can develop.
Giuseppe tells his story in a VIDEO
Having graduated from the 'V. Bellini' Conservatory in Palermo at a very young age under the guidance of Enza Vernuccio, Giuseppe Di Benedetto specialised as Maestro Collaboratore in Genoa, Milan (Teatro alla Scala) and Palermo (Teatro Massimo). He studied chamber music in Germany with Rosemarie Cabaud and Peter May. Winner of numerous national and international competitions, he is the founder of the Quintetto Siciliano, with which he has performed in Italy, Spain, Germany, Switzerland, Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Canada. A composer for the Teatro di Parola, he has collaborated with Teresa Pomodoro, Rosalina Neri, Pietro Carriglio and with leading institutions such as the Bellini in Palermo, the Franco Parenti, the Teatro No'hma (Milan), the Teatro Ponchielli in Cremona, and the Teatro alle Vigne in Lodi. He has composed for television and film. His song Sweet Lullaby was chosen for the 2009 'Mediaset per il Sociale' commercial. His music has been broadcast by Rai Due and Rai Nettuno. In July 2010, he opened the concert of singer-songwriter Roberto Vechioni in Vigevano. In 2012, his first approach with Cinema, "Danza Pierrot and Sweet Lullaby" the pieces chosen and inserted by director Daniele Cini for the short film "Leave Signs". He is represented worldwide by Barley Arts.
Photo by Elena Di Vincenzo
