BIO
Antonio Gaggiano (born 1999) is an Italian percussionist specializing in the
performance of contemporary music.
During his career he has collaborated with numerous orchestras, including
the Orchestra Sinfonica della Magna Grecia, the Sinfonieorchester Basel, the
Neues Orchester Basel, the Basel Collegium Musicum the Teatro San Carlo in
Naples, O.R.T Orchestra della toscana, Ensemble
Recherche and Lucerne Festival Contemporary Orchestra and more.
He received an Erasmus scholarship, thanks to which he was able to attend
the KASK Conservatory in Ghent for two academic years.
He also participated in a summer specialization course at the Accademia
Chigiana in Siena, under the guidance of Maestro Antonio Caggiano between 2021 and 2024.
He obtained with honors the academic diploma of I and II level in percussion
at the "Conservatory “Umberto Giordano” of Foggia and completed in 2024 a
Master in Music Performance at the Hochschule für Musik in Basel under the
guidance of Prof. Christian Dierstein. He is currently enrolled in the Master in
Music Pedagogy at the same institution.
Antonio has performed in important national and international festivals,
including the ChigianaFestival 2021, the Siluna Fest, the Rodi Summer
Festival, the Festival Voci per Vico, the Musikfestival Bern, the Mixtures
Festival of Barcelona, the Impuls Graz, the Lucerne Festival, Basel Mizmorim
and many others.
On these occasions he has collaborated with internationally renowned
composers, soloists and conductors, including
Salvatore Sciarrino, Marco Momi, Helmut Lachenmann,Lorenzo Pagliei, Ilya
Gringolts, Martha Argerich, Dan Ettinger, Peter Rundel and more.
In the field of composition, he has obtained several awards: the 3rd prize at
the International Composition Competition
“Città di Albenga” with the piano piece Discontinuum (dedicated to György
Ligeti), the 2nd prize at the “WPM Snare Drum and percussion Wettbewerb”
He has also been awarded several times by the Adams Percussion Factory
and, in March 2025, he received the prestigious Fritz Gerber Award conferred
by the Lucerne Festival that will allow him to perform as a soloist and in
various ensemble in the next edition of Lucerne Festival.