Alberto Caprioli is an Italian composer and conductor born in Bologna in 1956. He grew up in a family where music was deeply valued alongside a strong intellectual background in science: both of his parents were physicists, yet music remained a constant presence in the home, and his brother Guido later pursued violin studies professionally.

Caprioli’s first instrument was the piano, and he began composing early, writing his first piano pieces at the age of twelve. While still in high school, he entered the Parma Conservatory, where he studied piano, guitar, composition, and conducting, before continuing his training at the Vienna Academy of Music with the full support of his family.

His musical imagination was shaped by composers such as Robert Schumann, Gustav Mahler, Charles Ives, and John Cage, whom he met on several occasions in Italy. In 1992, he collaborated on a performance of Music Walk, and his John Cage Variations, dedicated to Cage, was performed by the Austrian Ensemble of New Music OENM.

Caprioli’s works have been performed in Italy, Austria, and the United States. His Trio was presented in New York and Boston, while his late-Romantic piece La petite phrase retrouvée, inspired by Marcel Proust, has recently been performed in both the U.S. and Italy. In 2012, he received the International Prize for Composition from the Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei in Rome for Fuggente, for mezzo-soprano and instruments.

He continues to compose and conduct. Recent projects includeAria bizantina, a monographic CD of his late chamber music released by Stradivarius, and the premiere ofMadrigale enigmatico, for three female voices and baroque ensemble, performed during the multimedia eventLo Specchio di Dioniso..