Pasquale Tassone

Pasquale Tassone studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, has an honors diploma from the Chigiana Academy in Siena and a Ph D. from Brandeis University. His teachers have included Franco Donatoni, Giacomo Manzoni and Sandro Gorli in Italy and John Clement Adams, Martin Boykan and Harold Shapero in the United States. He has written music for the University of Lowell recital series, the M.I.T. Band, The Master Singers, The Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, The Arlington-Belmont Chorale and ALEA III. His String Quartet No.1 was a first prizewinner in the 1987 League- ISCM Composition Contest. In 1995, his Piccolo Preludio for solo piano was published in the League-ISCM Piano Book. His “bells among the spires” for carillon was chosen to be published (1998) in a book of original carillon pieces sponsored by the City of Albany (NY) in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of its carillon. His “