Cristiano D’Urbano

Cristiano D'Urbano began studying piano at the age of twelve under the guidance of Maestro Giuliano Mazzoccante. In 2015, he graduated in Piano from the ISSSMC “Gaetano Braga” in Teramo (under Maestro Piero Di Egidio) with top honors, obtaining a First Level Academic Diploma with a final mark of 110 cum laude. In 2017, he completed the Master’s Degree in Piano at the State Conservatory of Music “Lorenzo Perosi” in Campobasso, again studying with Maestro Mazzoccante.

He has participated in numerous national piano competitions and, in 2006, won the Absolute First Prize at the 1st Piano Competition “Città di Avezzano” (AQ). In 2007, he won his category at the 6th Piano Competition “Città di San Giovanni Teatino” (CH), whose jury was chaired by Maestro Sergio Perticaroli, and in 2009 he won the First Prize at the 5th Piano Competition “Città di Guardiagrele” (CH).

He attended advanced piano courses held by Maestro Mazzoccante in Pescara at the Centro Studi Musicali “Compagnia della Musica” (2006), at the Museo delle Culture “Villa Garibaldi” in Riofreddo, Rome (2007, 2008, 2009), and at the “Cenacolo della Musica” in Catignano (2013, 2014, 2015). In the summer of 2012, he participated in the international masterclass organized in Malta by the association “Violin & Friends International” as part of the “Violin & Friends International Music Festival,” and returned to Malta in May 2015 for the “Malta International Music Festival,” where he had the opportunity to study with renowned pianists such as Nina Tichman, Andreas Frölich, and Leonel Morales Alonso. Also noteworthy is his participation in the advanced course organized by the “Cenacolo della Musica” in May 2016 with the legendary Russian pianist Alexander Kobrin.

He performed several times during the renowned musical event “Settimana Mozartiana,” held in Chieti (2006, 2011, 2012). He also attended annual Composition courses taught by Maestro Sante Centurione at the “Scuola Civica Musicale di San Giovanni Teatino.”

Alongside his pianistic career, in 2014 he began studying orchestral and choral conducting with Maestro Pasquale Veleno. This experience led him to conduct, as conductor and musical director, the musical production “Consolazione – L’incubazione dei sogni”, conceived by sound designer Fabio Colucci (April 2017), and “Non muoversi”, a musical setting of poetic texts by Luigi Colagreco (May 2017), both performed at the Foyer of the Teatro Marrucino in Chieti. In 2021, he completed the First Level Academic Diploma in Orchestral Conducting at the State Conservatory of Music “Luisa D’Annunzio” in Pescara, under the guidance of Maestro Adriano Melchiorre.

In the field of music education, he teaches Classical Piano and serves as coordinator of the Orchestral Laboratory for the basic music courses organized by the “Music & Art International Academy” at its campuses in Chieti (Palazzo dei Veneziani) and Chieti Scalo (Scuola secondaria di primo grado “V. Antonelli”).