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Andrea Di Paolo is a pianist and composer of modern classical, contemporary, postminimalism, ambient music influenced by the natural world, the neo-mythology and ritualism in music. His road and backpacking trips have shaped his music with a strong sense of place and a resonance of landscapes that also reverberates in his photographs. He graduated in Piano and Composition (Bachelor and Master degree) and he studied in Rome (Italy) at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia and in Strasbourg (France) at the CRR Conservatoire, Cité de la Musique et de la Danse. Fundamental in his human and artistic development has been the meeting with Arvo Pärt, Salvatore Sciarrino, Valentin Silvestrov, Luciano Berio, Bernardo De Angelis and his long travels in Iceland, Israel, Palestine, Armenia, Morocco, Scotland and among the populations of Eastern Russia and Balkan countries. His music has been performed in Europe, America and Russia, broadcast by Radio France and Radio RAI and, as a pianist, he played in Italian and foreigns theaters including Portugal, Serbia, France, England, Norway, Bosnia, Ukraine, Spain, Armenia, Russia, Germany, Romania, Hungary. In 2015 it was published his first album Das Universum for String Quartet and in 2021 his Piano Solo album titled Planetarium (Preludes for piano, book 1). Since 2008 he teaches Composition, Harmony and Analysis at the Music Universities and Conservatories. In addition to his musical activity he is interested in analog and digital photography based on the technique of black and white. In 2017 it was published his first photobook named Iceland, not all those who wander are lost and in 2019 was published his second photobook named Lost in the Highlands.
