IVANO BATTISTON studied Accordion with Salvatore di
Gesualdo, graduating with a first-class honours degree cum
laude and honourable mention from the Castelfranco Veneto
Conservatoire. In 1978 he was awarded first prize at the
XXVIII Trophée Mondial de l’Accordéon and
subsequently he achieved a Diploma in Choral Music and
Bassoon; he also studied composition with Bruno Coltro.
He has been carrying on a busy concert activity, performing
for prestigious music institutions in Italy (Amici della
Musica in Florence, Padua and Vicenza, Nuove Sincronie and
Serate Musicali in Milan, Nuovi Spazi Musicali in Rome,
Società del Quartetto in Vercelli, G.O.G. in Genoa, Unione
Musicale in Turin, “Campus Internazionale di
Musica” in Latina, Biennale Musica in Venice,
Aterforum Festival Ferrara, Accademia Chigiana in Siena,
Bologna Festival, etc.) and abroad (France, Spain,
Switzerland, Germany, Croazia, Bosnia and Herzegovina,
Serbia, Albania, Finland, Holland, United Kingdom, Malta,
U.S.A., Russia, Chile, Uruguay, Argentina and Brazil).
As an accordion soloist he has performed with leading
orchestras in Italy and Europe (Moscow Soloist conducted by
Yuri Bashmet, Quad City Symphony Orchestra in U.S.,
Simfonični orkester RTV Slovenija Ljubljana, RAI
Torino, Orchestra d’Archi Italiana, Sinfonica di San
Remo, "Milano Classica" and “Pomeriggi
Musicali” in Milan and also with the “Arturo
Toscanini” Emilia Romagna Symphony Orchestra in the
last concert of the “2 Agosto” International
Composition Competition’s seventh edition and with
the Krasnoyarsk Chamber Orchestra (Russia) at the 2004 /
2005 / 2007 edition of the Siberia - Italia Festival.
He has collaborated with the orchestras “Opera de
Lyon” and “Accademia Nazionale di S.
Cecilia” in Rome, with the “Orchestra da camera
di Padova e del Veneto”, the “Orchestra
Giovanile Italiana”, the Ensemble Musica / Realtà in
Reggio Emilia and with such musicians as David Bellugi,
Mario Brunello, Pamela Hebert, Vinko Globokar, Umberto
Clerici, Vittorio Ceccanti, Alexander Lonquich, Daniela De
Santis, Marina Popadić, Ivano Paterno,
Luca Provenzani, Faye Nepon, Eugenia Amisano, Avi
Avital and Enzo Caroli among others.
He has recorded for Warner Fonit, Ema Records, Velut Luna,
Raitre, Radiotre, etc.