Dario De Cicco
holds a degree in Pianoforte, Music and Choral Music Teaching, and Choir Directing. He has specialised in choral singing and Gregorian chant at the main centres in Italy and elsewhere in Europe. He frequently publishes the results of his music studies and research in a number of periodicals (including Bequadro, Musica Domani, Il Rigo Musicale, and others) and he holds courses in choral singing, semiology and Gregorian palaeography at a number of monasteries in Italy and in other European countries. He collaborates with Éditions de Solesmes, for whom he was responsible for the Italian edition of a text by G. Hourlier, published as "La notazione dei manoscritti liturgici" (2006). For OTOS publishers in Lucca he has edited oratorios by Giacomo Carissimi: "Felicitas beatorum" (2004), "Lamentatio damnatorum" (2004), "Jephte" (2006). He is President of La Spezia section of SIEM (Italian Society for Music Education), and a member of the national executive committee of the same, where he is responsible for the activities of the various sections. He is also a member of several permanent committees for national studies and research, connected with SIEM. He works with a number of schools and music associations at national level as an instructor in projects concerning experimental teaching in the fields of teaching to listen and teaching music in infant and primary schools. Email: dariodecicco@alice.it
