In June 2018, Diego Ratto, a young emerging Italian composer who recently won the Residency Prix CIME 2017, had the chance to work at our ICST studio.
After graduating at Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi/Alessandria, he now is a Master student at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm.
Diego Ratto (*1988, Alessandria) is an italian musician and composer who recently won the Residency Prix CIME 2017. He graduated from Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi/Alessandria with a Bachelor’s Degree in Electroacoustic Music (supervised by Gustavo Adolfo Delgado and Matteo Franceschini) in 2017, in Jazz Guitar (supervised by Pino Russo and Paolo Silvestri) in 2016 and in Music Therapy (supervised by Annamaria Gheltrito) in 2014. Currently he is studying Electroacoustic Composition at the Royal College of Music in Stockholm (KMH).
He composes mainly acousmatic pieces, especially using concrete sound sources. The main subject of his bachelor and master thesis is the «electroacoustic orchestration», which he’s trying to develop by creating techniques and methods to compose thinking this way.
During his Residency at the Institute for Computer Music and Sound Technology / Zurich he mixed and spatialized his new piece «KOM» for the dome, using and testing the latest Ambisonic Plugins V.0.5.0.
His compositions have been performed and awarded at: EMUfest 2017 (Roma, IT), MA/IN 2017 - MAtera INtermedia festival (Matera, IT), Residency Prix CIME 2017 (Moscow 2017, RUS), MusicLab 2017 (Mexico City, MEX), Acousmatic Premiere Performance Competition - TEM (Udine, IT), RMN Music Label (London, UK), Et Lux Radio, Diffrazioni Festival 2016 (Firenze, IT), Electroacoustic Contest EFME 2016 (Santa Fe, RA).