Corrado de Innocentiis - Italian pianist, teacher, musicologist, music manager - was born in Naples and currently lives in Verona. He holds the Chair of Principal Piano as a Permanent Professor at the State Music Conservatory "Evaristo Felice dall'Abaco" of Verona. Previously he has held the same Chair at "Egidio Romualdo Duni" of Matera, "Umberto Giordano" of Foggia, "Gioachino Rossini" of Pesaro, and "Lucio Campiani" of Mantua State Music Conservatories.
He graduated with First Class Honours at the State University of Bologna - Faculty of Arts and Philosophy as Doctor of Musicology and at the State Music Conservatory "S. Pietro a Majella" of Naples as Music Piano Master, where he studied with such distinguished musicians as Aldo Tramma and the legendary Vincenzo Vitale (Piano), Bruno Mazzotta and Aldo Clementi (Composition, Musical Analysis, Musical Theory's Graduation Thesis). After researching into piano technique, piano didactics and history of piano didactics, under the Vincenzo Vitale's teaching for several years, he has given a series of lectures and seminars on his methodology. In the field of music criticism he has contributed to various national magazines joining both Publicist Roster of the National Journalistic Association and the Authors and Publishers' Italian Society (SIAE) as a composer.
Since 1989 he has been the Artistic Director of various music management societies. Since 1998 up to now he is the Artistic Director of his own agency, de Innocentiis artists' management srl, being Full Member of the most important worldwide association of music managers and producers (the "International Artist Managers' Association" - IAMA of London) being proud of the representation of a number of celebrated musicians (Tamás Vásáry, Konstantin Scherbakov, Eroica Trio of New York, Philharmonia Quartett Berlin which includes Berliner Philharmoniker's First Konzertmeister and First Solo Strings, tenor Rainer Trost, among many others) and the touring management of renowned choirs (Coro dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Wiener Sängerknaben) and orchestras (Wiener Philharmoniker, Wiener Symphoniker, Wiener Kammerorchester, Budapest Festival Orchestra conducted by Iván Fischer, Chamber Orchestra of Europe, to mention a few among the over 40 internationally renowned orchestras he has cooperated with producing several tours).
On the basis of the above experiences he directly acquired in the field of the living music market, since the current 2004/2005 Academic Year he has established a Course of Music Management for the Bachelor's and Postgraduate Programmes at the Verona Conservatory in order to expound the fundamental traits of the professional music world and most principal issues connected with such a quite unknown field.
(October 16, 2004)