Marco Trevisani was born in Verona, Italy, on February 26, 1963. He started studying piano at the age of five under the tutelage of his father, himself a pianist. At the age of 15, Marco started to study classical music composition with private teachers: first Professor Giorietto in Verona and later Maestro Bonafede in Milan. He lived six years in Milan where he graduated in architecture at the Politecnico, University of Milan. His final dissertation was on "Relation between Architecture and Mural Painting" with Prof. Mario De Micheli. In Milan he also studied techniques of piano improvisation in jazz and avant-garde music, with Maestro Bonafede and worked as a jazz pianist. Upon completing his degree, he moved to Vienna where he studied classical music composition for three years at the Hochschule fur Musik, with professors Dieter Kaufmann and Tamas Ungvary who introduced him to computer music. From 1992 to 1997 Marco was Visiting Composer at CCRMA (Center for Computer Research in Music and Acoustics) of Stanford University, invited by Prof. John Chowning. At CCRMA he specialized in computer music composition, studying with John Chowning, among others. At Standford he also studied literature and philosophy with John Freccero, Michel Serre and René Girard. All of them played an important role in his formation. Marco has given talks and lectures around the world, including Stanford University, Vienna, University of Padova, Verona, University of Puerto Rico and Belo Horizonte (Brazil). He has composed for various music ensembles as well as computer music; he has produced and composed music theater and computer music theater (often in collaboration with the Drama Department at Stanford), and music for movies and television, as well sound design and stage design for other theater productions. He also wrote music for contemporary dance performances. He worked as a consultant for Apple in a speech recognition project for two years. From 1997 to 2000 he taught classes in Software Synthesis - real time signal processing in digital arts - and Private Music Composition at New York University, in the Music and Technology Department. In 1997 he was also a visiting professor at Columbia University, at the CMC-Computer Music Center. His artistic production has been presented and performed in many different countries including Italy, Cuba, Puerto Rico, Brazil, Colombia, Chile, Austria, Romania, Slovenia, Germany, France, Hungary and the United States. Marco Trevisani has also toured as prepared piano performer in these countries. Since 1994 he has been working to promote and spread GNU/Linux and free software as an alternative Operating System for computers in the multimedia. Then he has promoted and developed a new distribution, and the first one, totally focused on multimedia, called Debian Multimedia Distribution, DeMuDi, that was funded by the European Community and led by Centro Tempo Reale in Florence, where he was appointed technical director in their research unit. He has been International Coordinator in the organization of the International Computer Music Conference 2001, in La Habana, Cuba, and Chairman of the Music Jury in the same event. From 2001 to the end of 2003 he has worked as technical director of the research group at Centro Tempo Reale, in Florence Italy, a center founded in the 1980s by Maestro Luciano Berio. He also investigated the area of 3D video/animation and as first result he produced a computer music 3D animation, Gritos, that is exhibited at Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Puerto Rico. Since July 2000 he has been living and working in San Juan, Puerto Rico. where has offered classes in the University of Puerto Rico, in the School of Architecture and the Visual Arts Department, an also on Digital Arts in the Museum of Contemporary Art of San Juan, Puerto Rico. In 2007 entered the New School of Architecture at the Universidad Politecnica de Puerto Rico where he funded and directed the multimedia lab. Since february 2010 has been working a Dean assistant in the School of Architecture at the University of Puerto Rico. He has been offering lectures on music, architecture, digital media, arts and technologies in different institutions in Puerto Rico and internationally. He also founded, with musician Omar Silva, the Colectivo de Electrónica Isleña, that uses technologies to create music, video, graphics in a continuos interaction.
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