Paolo Cavallone (b. 1975) has been described as “a major composer of today’s music scene… [whose] diversity of writing is marked by a quest for openness of possibilities…” (Putsch). His works, which Italia Oggi called as “authentic jewels“, have been featured all over the world (Los Angeles’ Zipper Concert Hall; New York’s Merkin Concert Hall; Wellington’s Illott Theatre (New Zealand); Sacramento’s “New Music Festival” (USA); Schaeffler” Musica, Sorocaba (Brazil); “Festival de Música Contemporánea de Tres Cantos” (Madrid); Pittsburgh’s Bellefield Hall Auditorium; Samtida Musik Capitol (Stockholm, Sweden); Florence’s Teatro Verdi; L’Aquila’s “Società Barattelli” (Italy); Italian Institute of Culture of Los Angeles and Paris; American Academy of Rome; Rome’s Auditorium Parco della Musica; Saint-Etienne’s Bourse du travail; and many others).
His works have been performed by: Rohan De Saram, James Avery, Roberto Fabbriciani, Magnus Andersson, Pascal Gallois, Luca Sanzò, Orchestra della Toscana (ORT), Tonino Battista, Mitteleuropa Orchestra (MO), Marco Guidarini, Orchestre National de Bretagne (ONB), Aurélien Azan-Zielinski, Ensemble Orchestral Contemporain (EOC), Daniel Kawka, Quartetto Guadagnini, Stroma Ensemble, Hamish McKeich, Roma Termini Orchestra, Enrico Blatti, Freon Ensemble, Farben Ensemble, Aurélien Pascal, Movses Pogossian, Tony Arnold, Antonio D’Augello, Maria Perrotta, Catarina Domenici, Gaetano Di Bacco, Laura Catrani, etc.