Interview with italian composer and keyboardist Giuseppe Corcella

Giuseppe Corcella was born in Monza on May 8, 1992. He’s a keyboarder, pianist, acoustic guitarist and composer. He begun to study piano at the age of 13 and, between 2005 and 2012 he was instructed on the classical pianistic repertoire by several teachers between Monza and Milan. At the age of 15 he started to study acoustic guitar.

In 2012 he begun to study Musicology in Cremona and decided to continue to study piano at the Institute of Higher Musical Studies in Cremona. He graduated in Musicology in September 2016 and now he is attending to the master’s degree in Science of Music and Theatre in Milan.

In February 2013 he joined to Nightraven as keyboardist, his first band. After their dissolution, in September 2013, he founded Acoustic Rhapsody as guitarist, an acoustic duo still operative, that released their first EP in May 2015. In June 2015, he joined Cyrax, a progressive metal band of Milan that left in April 2017. Finally, in September 2016 he founded a Symphonic Heavy Metal band called Onyrica.

He has the passion for composition from 2006. Between 2005 and 2006 he begun to write his first musical compositions for piano. At the beginning they were really easy and then he improve the technique and the difficulty of his compositions year after year. In particular, he wrote a lot of musical compositions (over 40) between 2010 and 2010, including 4 fantasies, a work for reciting voice and piano based on 15 compositions by Francesco Petrarca, some lyric songs with lyrics by Leopardi, Dante, Foscolo, Carducci, Lorenzo De’ Medici; a work for piano based on the myths of the 13 zodiacal constellations.
In December 2013 he wrote his first rock song, Something Will Not Return, which become the title track of the first Acoustic Rhapsody’s EP. In these years, the production for piano solo run low but in 2016 it started again, with pieces like Chimaera and A Winter’s Lullaby, written as intermezzos for Cyrax’s gigs. In December 2016 he wrote a seven parts suite called The Highest Sky.
In the meanwhile, he begun to compose cinematic music, publishing on Youtube For the Glory, Through the Valley and, a few months later, Utopia, which received good feedbacks from the listeners.

He also write reviews for the metal webzine MetalWinds from January 2017.

CONTACTS AND SOCIAL MEDIA LINKS
E-MAIL: [email protected]
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YOUTUBE: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo8sPzBRWVMj034UTQMVRjQ
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/giuseppe-corcella-286250665