Composer Paolo Ugoletti was born inBrescia on 7 June 1956. He studiedcomposition in 1973 at the Conservatory of Brescia with Giancarlo Facchinetti and Giovanni Ugolini and then at the Conservatory "Giuseppe Verdi" inMilan withGiacomo Manzoni. From 1977 to 1979 Ugoletti attendedFranco Donatoni's composition course at theAccademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena where he obtains the diploma of merit.
Since 1979 Ugoletti's music has been performed by soloists such as Georg Mönch, Ciro Scarponi, Antonio Ballista,Sandro Gorli, Giuseppe Garbarino, Claudia Antonelli, Massimiliano Damerini and Piero Bonaguri. In the eighties Paolo adhered to the Italian Neo-Romanticism, albeit in a more nuanced manner than its founders [2].
In 1989 Ugoletti became a professor of composition at the Conservatory "Luca Marenzio" of Brescia; at the same time he started a long-lasting collaboration with the "Sagra musicale umbra". It commissioned works such as theGloria of the Missa Solemnis Resurrectionis, premiered inRome on the occasion of theJubilee 2000 and the completion of the Lacrimosa and the composition of theAmen of Mozart's Requiem in 2002.
In 1989 Ugoletti wrote chamber and solo compositions forRadio France and for the "Cabrillo Festival" (California). In the early nineties (1990–93) he dedicated himself to the study ofIrish traditional music which, in the following years, inspired the composition of numerous works linked to theCeltic world and expressiveness. Since 2000 he has been composing numerous works using soloists, choir and orchestra and inserting instruments of other musical genres:uilleann pipes, tin whistle,Celtic harp, bass andelectric guitar, electronic keyboards, drums.
Since 2003 Ugoletti has been collaborating on projects of the painter Rinaldo Turati realizing compositions as integrated parts of the installations of the artist
Ugoletti's compositions are published by the publishing houses Ricordi,Suvini Zerboni, Sonzogno, UtOrpheus, andKelidon Edizioni.
J.R. Jimenez, Ugoletti, Paolo, in Dizionario Enciclopedico della Musica e dei Musicisti DEUMM, Unione Tipografico - Editrice Torinese UTET, 1988,ISBN978-88-02-04396-8.
AA.VV., Ugoletti, in Enciclopedia della musica Garzanti, Garzanti, 1996,ISBN88-11-50467-8.
Renzo Cresti, UGOLETTI, Paolo, in Enciclopedia Italiana dei Compositori Contemporanei, Pagano-Tolmino, 1999,ISBN978-88-87463-07-1.
[1] Opere di Paolo Ugoletti], openMLOL, Horizons Unlimited srl.(EN),[2] at the International Music Score Library Project, Project Petrucci LLC.(EN),[3] at Discogs, Zink Media.,[4] at Conservatorio di Musica "L. Marenzio", Brescia.,[5] at Milano Musica.,[6] at UT Orpheus.,[7] at Composition Today.EN),[8] at Free Choral Music.
