With 100 votes out of 105, Maestro Gaetano Panariello was elected director of the “San Pietro a Majella” Conservatory of Music in Naples for the three-year period 2023-2026.
Voting concluded today, indicating the successor to Maestro Carmine Santaniello, who completed his mandate upon reaching retirement age. “I am proud of the very broad participation in the vote by the teachers of our Conservatory and their almost unanimous consensus, demonstration of a very high-profile and strongly shared and representative choice”, declared the president of the Conservatory Luigi Carbone.
“I express my most sincere wishes for good work to Maestro Gaetano Panariello. I am sure that his election will give further impetus to the development path that we have undertaken in recent months”. For his part, the outgoing director Carmine Santaniello stated: “I thank the teachers and staff of the Conservatory for the trust they have placed in me during my six years in office. Their collaboration has been crucial in achieving important results, not least the expansion of the staff, the start of restoration work and the return of concert series”.
Gaetano Panariello studied at the Conservatory of S. Pietro a Majella in NAPLES under the guidance of Aladino Di Martino and Tita Parisi. He obtained a diploma in composition in 1985/86 and a diploma of specialization in composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome (1990/91) under the guidance of Franco Donatoni. He also holds a diploma in piano, choral music and choir conducting and has studied orchestra conducting and law (Federico II University of Naples).
In 1982 he obtained his first teaching assignment in Harmony and Counterpoint at the Francesco Cilea Conservatory in Reggio Calabria; he subsequently taught at the conservatories of Bari, Potenza, Salerno, and Naples.
From 1989 to 2007 he was a teacher of Harmony, Counterpoint, Fugue and Composition at the “Domenico Cimarosa” Conservatory in Avellino, where he was first vice-director in the three-year period 1997/2000 and then director in the five-year period 2000/2005, as well as a member of the board of directors. In the two-year period 2004/2006 he was a member of the board of directors of the Avellino Symphony Orchestra.
From 2008 to 2011 he was a contract professor of Musicology and History of Music at the University of Salerno and a member of the Board of Directors of the Conservatory of San Pietro a Majella in NAPLES. Since 2008 he has been a full professor of Composition at the Conservatory of Music S. Pietro a Majella in Naples.
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