Pierluigi Castellano

Pierluigi Castellano (born 1958, in Rome) is an Italian musician, composer and journalist. Castellano began his career by studying piano, clarinet, composition and electronic music, attending seminars held by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Aldo Clementi.

In 1983 and 1984 took part in the work of Giovanna Marini, Le Cadeau de l'Empereur held, among others, at the Festival d'Avignon, the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord in Paris and the Teatre Grec in Barcelona.

Between 1985 and 1990 he composed several soundtracks for theater, movies (A futura memoria: Pier Paolo Pasolini, by Ivo Barnabò Micheli), but particularly for dance shows (choreography by Enzo Cosimi, Fabrizio Monteverde and others) with good critical and commercial feedbacks in France, England and the United States.

He also composed Electronic Music for the ENEL and Infobyte project for the Seville Expo '92. For Rai Radio Tre Castellano composed two Operas: Viaggio nel Cyberspazio (1993) and Zonacalda (1995). He took part in the European research project HELP working on the musical translation of visual art.As journalist Castellano wrote for Il Manifesto and works for the Italian national television RAI.