Giovanni Bataloni was born in Bellano, on the Lake of Como , in 1969.
At present he lives between Milan and Switzerland where he works as a composer, arranger and pianist. Among his current projects are the presentation of the music on May Ayim and Birgit v. Criegern’s poetry, new chamber music compositions, and a contemporary jazz Cd with Serial Trio.
Giovanni Bataloni has experience in avant-garde and computer music, in jazz and in movie and theatre music.
In 1993 he began studying at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory of Music in Como, where he received full score diplomas in Choral music, Choir Director and Composition.
From 1998 to 2001 he attended and completed a course in composition with Ivan Fedele at the Conservatoire National de Région de Strasbourg where he also met many other composers like Luis De Pablo, Pascal Dusapin and Horatio Radulescu. A master class with Franco Donatoni in 1996 and an acquaintance with Stefano Gervasoni were very important for his compositive training and research.
His compositions and arrangements have been performed in several concert seasons in Italy and abroad by many soloists and ensembles. He has written music and arrangements for Ensemble Interactive de Montbéliard, Ensemble Musicamorfosi, Divertimento Ensemble, Les Jeux sont faits, Orchestra Stabile di Como. He took part in Novecento e Presente (Lugano, 2006) and in the project Rencontres entre Compositeurs et Interprètes of music association Syntono (Paris, Athene, 2005). He worked with Ensemble Musicamorfosi for the music-theatre season Lampi (Milano 2004/05/06)
He constantly works with Associatione Culturale Ricercare for the Microludi season. In 2002 he founded the Deiopea Ensemble, a group that mixes jazz sounds improvisation and elements from Italian music which was performed in several concerts and realized the cd Deiopea (Music Center 2007 – BA140). His composition “Dripping for Cello Solo”, awarded at the Concorso Internazionale di Composizione Città di Pavia, is being published by Edizioni Rugginenti, Milano. He has also written music for children and music and arrangements for a children’s choir. He has also written music for school orchestras and groups (Progetto Musicisti di Scuola – Milano 2003-2004)
He took part in a multimedia performance: Urban Dream-Allochromatic Fabulation, Per la voce (dedicated to W. Majakovskij), Omaggio al Futurismo, realized in collaboration with other composers. He also collaborates as a composer and arranger on several releases. For many years he has taught Composition, Harmony, Theory and Solfeggio in music schools.