di Eleonora Catalli da Roma
Antonio Simone
Italian Cultural Institute of London
20 June 2011
Arrived in London to receive the award at Scala in King’s Cross; the Italian pianist Antonio Simone offered to the audience of the Italian Cultural Institute of London a remarkable music concert. He mainly played the compositions of his latest CD ‘Life of Colours’. Music is a universal language that crosses and overcomes differences. Happiness, melancholy, love, nostalgia, energy are amongst the emotions I felt while listening to Antonio’s music; he plays the piano to provoke feelings to his audience, to the people who are willing to live emotions; trigger and final aim at the same time.
After the concert I had the pleasure to chat a little bit with Antonio in a sort of informal and unplanned interview which gave me the possibility to discover a little bit more about his music and how it is entangled to his life.
After an improvised exhibition singing the soundtrack of his favourite TV series as a nine year old child his parents recognized his musical potential and supported him in studying piano. Years of private lessons, a successful graduation from the Conservatory at the age of 19, competitions and prizes lead him to develop a life passion for composition. His composition rejects conventional rules and explores new possibilities; as Antonio says ‘my composition is difficult to define. I am an independent artist’.
Antonio is an expert of musicotherapy. He recalled how he started as a student moved by the attempt to understand how music could be directed towards therapeutic, rehabilitative, educative and re-educative objectives and as ‘there isn’t only one musicotherapy’ he focused on the musicotherapy of well-being. From student to teacher he abandoned this profession as soon as he felt he was drifting apart from his life passion for composition. ‘Today – being the therapeutic power in the music – I try to transfer positive emotions and feelings though my compositions’.
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