Born in 1960 in Italy, Pierluigi Billone lives in Vienna. He studied composition with Salvatore Sciarrino and Helmut Lachenmann. Billone's music has been performed by ensembles such as Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Intercontemporain, Ensemble Modern, Ensemble Recherche, Instant Donné, Ensemble Contrechamps and others in festivals such as Donaueschinger Musiktage, Wien Modern, Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Ars Musica Bruxelles, Festival d’Automne à Paris. His music is regularly broadcasted from the most important radios in and beyond Europe. A close artistic collaboration binds him with the conductor Emilio Pomárico, with the percussionists Christian Dierstein and Adam Weisman, with the bassoon player Lorelei Dowling, the violist Barbara Maurer, the duo Stump-Linshalm and the singers Frank Wörner and Alda Caiello, all to whom he has dedicated solo pieces and studied important solo techniques. His works received international awards such as the Kompositionspreis der Stadt Stuttgart (Stuttgart 1993), the Busoni-Kompositionspreis (Academy of Arts Berlin 1996) the Wiener Internationaler Kompositionspreis (Vienna 2004), the Ernst-Krenek-Preis (Vienna 2006), and the Kompositionspreis der Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikstiftung (Munich 2010). From 2006 to 2008 Pierluigi Billone was guest professor for composition at the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz (Austria). From October 2010 he will teach again in Graz. He is regularly invited as lecturer at the IEMA-Ensemble Modern Academy, Conservatoire Paris, Conservatorium Amsterdam, University of Arts Wien, Harvard University Boston and the Columbia University NY, holding composition seminars. The works of Pierluigi Billone appear on the Kairos, Stradivarius, Col-legno, Durian, EMSA and Ein_Klang labels. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.