Franco
Antonio Mirenzi (1959), composer, has improved his own music skills with Aldo
Clementi and Salvatore Sciarrino after getting the diploma in organ, organ
composition and music didactics.
He has made a name for himself firstly as an organ concert artist and then as a
music teacher.
Franco Antonio Mirenzi composes with no limits of music genres and styles.
His orchestral compositions are commissioned, published, performed and
appreciated in Italy
and abroad.
Since 1992 he has been teaching Elements of composition for music didactics at
Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Rome. He has taught the same matter at the
Conservatory of Messina (from 1986 to 1990) and at the Conservatory of Latina
(from 1990 on) too.
Since the academic year 2000-2001 he has been teaching composition Didactics at
SSIS-Puglia and he has given (from 2002 to 2004) a course on Elements of
harmony and counterpoint at Lecce
University.
He works in public schools training music teachers.
He has written essays and he has cooperated to prestigious publications.
Since 1997 he has been an elected member of the national Council of Education.
He is an elected member of the Academic Body of Santa Cecilia Conservatory of
Rome.
He lives and works in Rome.