International Awards

- Silver Medal at the Global Music Awards 2018 (Los Angeles);

- Solemn Commendation from the Municipality of Firmo - Italy (November 2018);

- Winner of the Akademia Music Awards March 2019 (Los Angeles);

Italian and of contemporary classical music and experimental music.

Salvatore Frega was born in Cosenza in 1989.

As a pianist he participates in numerous national and European competitions including the competitions Città di Firmo, Altomonte, Taranto, always positioning himself among the first places. Participate as a guest of honor, in the year 2004/2005, at the Palazzo Galeotta in Taranto. He attended master's and specialization courses with M. and M. Cristiano Burato. He graduated in Piano at the "Stanislao Giacomantonio" Conservatory of Cosenza under the guidance of M. Grazia Amato.

He studied composition at the same Conservatory under the guidance of M. Pasquale De Rosa. Following Courses and Masters of specialization with M. Evgeni Zoudilkine (Director of the University of Aveiro), a Master of Armenian Music with M. Julian Mirian (European University Cyprus) on Xenakis, and again a Master of Composition for Film Music held by M. Enrico Fabio Cortese, who wanted him to collaborate on Sky - Rai productions.

He followed a Master of High Specialization with the composer M. Andrea Portera (Professor of the Composition class of the Music School of Fiesole); the relationship of deep and mutual esteem created led him to be named his assistant in the DMC (Department of Contemporary Music) of the Music School of Fiesole.

He graduated in Composition at the Music School of Fiesole under the guidance of M ° Andrea Portera.

He obtained a High Specialization Diploma at the Santa Cecilia National Academy of under the guidance of Maestro Ivan Fedele.

Salvatore Sciarrino and also studied composition.

Winner of the Absolute First Prize of the European Composition Competition "Antonio Vivaldi" City of Taranto.

Winner of the Absolute First Prize of the European Composition Competition “Musical European Competition G.B. PERGOLESI City of Taranto ”.

Finalist of the National Composition Competition "Rosolino Toscano" Pescara. Winner of the "Veretti" Composition Competition of the Fiesole Music School.

He was honored by musicians and such as , Fabio Nieder and Larisa Vrhunc, Francesco Longo, Fabrizio Festa, Fabio Vacchi, Andrea Lucchesini, Mario Ancillotti and others.

His song Small Hops received the best composition award at the International Composition Competition "3rd INTERNATIONAL BIENNAL OF CONTEMPORARY MUSIC IN KOPER (Slovenia)"; Small Hops was performed by the quintet "SLOWIND" and by the pianist Tatjana Jercog, directed by M. Steven Loy, broadcast by TV Capodistria and Radio Capodistria.

He has received commissions from various festivals and various international organizations such as: Koper Contemporary Music Festival - SLO, Kreuzberg Festival - Kiezkultur - Berlin, Polo Solidale - Cittanova, Sibaris Theater - Castrovillari, Fiesole Music School - Fiesole, Music Festival Contemporary "Vasari" - Serra Events Ca 'De Frati - Arezzo, Contemporary Music Festival "Associazione Cluster" - Lucca, Apollo Theater - Crotone, Auditorium "Santa Apollonia" - , Dominican Convent - Firmo, Municipal Theater Pietro Aretino - Arezzo , Season “The Great Music Appointments - Arezzo, Norges Musikkhøgskole - Oslo, Teatro Rendano - Cosenza, Season“ Reflected Sounds ”- Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto - Florence, Contempoartensemble Season - Marino Marini Museum - Florence, Sanremo Symphony Foundation - Teatro Gran Casinò - Sanremo, Biennale Di Venezia, Orchestra Piccoli Pomeriggi Foundation M usicals of - San Carlino Theater Season, Brescia - Santo Stefano a Ponte Season, Florence.

He has collaborated with musicians and orchestra conductors such as: Steven Loy, Andrea Vitello, Simone Ori, Pasquale Menchise, Henry Cheng, Anastasios Symeonidis, Sigmund Thorp, Mauro Ceccanti, The Pavel Kachnov, with pianist and composer Francesco Libetta, the Double Bassist Emiliano Macrini, the pianist M. Gerd Rosinsky, the flautist and conductor M. Mario Ancillotti, the actor Paolo Hendel and others. Ensembles such as: DmC Ensemble, Tangram Chamber Project, BIOS Ensemble, SLOWIND Quintet, Ensemble Nuovo Contrappunto, NMH Sinfonietta, Contempoartensemble, New Made Ensemble, Dedalo Ensemble and others. such as: Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Galilei of the Fiesole Music School, The Small Musical Afternoons of Milan, Florentine Chamber Orchestra, Budapest Symphony Orchestra MÁV, Pazardzhik Symphony Orchestra and others.

He participated in the "TELESIO" with M. .

Awarded by the Municipality of Firmo on the occasion of the "Firmo in Scena" Festival as "ECCELLENZA FIRMENSE" for being the bearer of music and culture in the world.

Winner in September 2018 of the Silver Medal in the GLOBAL MUSIC AWARDS in California with the composition "unAnimes", performed as a world premiere by the Contempoartensemble.

He was nominated composer in Residence by the New Made Ensemble in the year 2017 and by the Dedalo Ensemble in the year 2018.

Guest in the important International Competition of Orchestral Conducting "Antal Dorati Competition" as a Contemporary Composer with the song "Magic Horse" performed as a world premiere and directed by Winner Henry Cheng.

He received the ENCOMIO SOLENNE with the Municipal Council Resolution n. 71 of 11/21/2018 from the Municipality of Firmo for its extraordinary artistic career in the field of music at an age still so young that gives luster to the entire citizenship and the Calabria region.

Winner, in March 2019, of the AKADEMIA MUSIC AWARDS in Los Angeles with the composition "Magic Horse" for Orchestra.

Guest at the "Astana Keshteri" Festival at the "Qazaq Concert" in Nur-Sultan (Kazakhstan) with the symphonic piece "Magic Horse" live on television seen by about 15 million spectators and directed by M ° Evgeny Bushkov with the Orchestra "I Solisti Kazakhs ".

Founder and Artistic Director of the Music Academy of Versilia and the International Composition Competition "A. Rendano ".

Professor of Piano and Composition at the Music Academy of Versilia, of the "Functioning of the Music Production Sector" at the CaMu of Arezzo and "Autoimprenditorialità Musicale" at the Music School of Fiesole.

In April 2018 he was appointed Music Director of TGmusic.it by the Società ITALIA MEDIA ONLINE SRL.

His compositions are published with the Publishing House "Sconfinarte" of Milan with the Ries & Erler of Berlin and with Impronta Edition of Berlin.