Francesco Milita (*Latina, Italy 1967)

In addition to being a composer, pianist and choir conductor, Francesco Milita teaches Choral Music & Conducting at the National Academy of Music in Sassari.
He was born in Latina and started studying music from an early age; when just 15, he was invited to represent Italy as a pianist at the International Festival of the Peace Flag in Sofia, Bulgaria.

He perfected his piano skills with a few precious lessons from Vincenzo Vitale and through studying under Boris Petrushanskij. His subsequent studies with the great composer Franco Donatoni were also highly influential. He attended a course on film music held by Ennio Morricone and studied organ with J. E. Goettsche, first organist at St Peter's Cathedral in Rome.

He has twice won the S.I.A.E (The Italian Composers and Publishers' Society) Prize for Composition, awarded by the Chigiana Academy in Siena. He has received several prizes in national competitions, in Messina, Rome and Reggio Emilia, for example, and won the First Prize at the "Paolo Valenti" Choral Composition Competition in Rome, as well as the First Prize and Special Public Prize at the International "Oggidiane" Competition in Pescara. His musical activities have been combined with a great interest in teaching, which has often led him to be rewarded in this field as well, including the First Prize at the "International Competition for Composition for primary schools", the Second Prize (the First Prize was not awarded) at the "Suoni di Fiaba" International Competition for Composition for Children by Vittorio Veneto and the First Prize at the "National Competition for Teaching Choral Composition", in Pontremoli.

A regular conductor of the A.N.A. Choir of Latina, he has conducted and played the piano in international festivals all over Italy and Europe. He has written more than a hundred compositions that have been performed and played throughout Europe, the U.S.A., Japan and Argentina.

He has had works published by the following publishing houses: "La Cartellina" - Edizioni musicali europee, Milan; Wicky Music, Milan; Tactus Fugit, Pescara; Bèrben, Ancona.
Some sacred Choral works: Messa Alpina, Ave Verum, Ave Maria, Piange l' Aurora and 3 Maundy Thursday Responsoria. A grasp of his Secular works: Altopiano, Ciant da li ciampanis, Cone nei Sogni, Coro Alpino and Mia Terra.

Choral Works

A cappella male choir:

* Sacred
Messa Alpina: Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei (italian text)
Alleluja
Ave Verum
Ave Maria
Piange l'Aurora (7v)

* Secular
Altopiano
Ciant da li ciampanis (5v)
Come nei Sogni
Coro Alpino
Mia Terra (6v)

Elaborations from italian folk songs

La Tradotta

Sul Ponte di Perati

Alpini in Libia

Sul Cappello

C'era un Cannon

Bombardano Cortina

Trentatré

Mixed choir:

* Sacred
3 Maundy Thursday Responsoria preceded by 15 Lamentations of Jeremiah (S,S,A,T,B.)
Lectio I
Resp. I: In Monte Oliveti
Lectio II
Resp. II: Tristis Est
Lectio III
Resp. III: Ecce Vidimus

3 Maundy Thursday Responsoria (S,S,A,A,T,T,B,B.)
Resp. IV: Amicus Meus
Resp. V: Judas Mercator Pessimus
Resp. VI: Unus Ex Discipulis
Messa “Del buon pastore” Kyrie, Gloria, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei
S,A,T,B choir and organ
“Psalm”; Cantata per soli, coro S,A,T,B e organo
Sanctus S,A,T,B

* Secular
Amici che ci udite - villanella (S,A,T,B)
Un canto per Pefki, on a theme by Schubert (S,A,T,B and piano)
Generoso mio generoso
dramatics madrigal in 4 acts (S,S,T and 7 instruments)

Children’s choir

Piccola Messa (S,S and easy piano or organ)
Kyrie, Sanctus, Benedictus, Agnus Dei (italian text)
Pedala, pedala… (S,S,A, flute and percussions)
Ladri di Arcobaleni (S,S,A, easy piano and percussions)
I giocattoli del Lord
little children’s opera for S,S,A, narrator, easy piano and percussions
Il sogno di Pierino for choir and orchestra

Songs
Più alto di un salto
Vola su di me
Come Maria
Nei tuoi occhi
Un mondo Buono