Mario Borciani

For more than four generations the members of Mario Borciani's family have been professional
musicians on both sides. Mario works both as pianist and composer. As a pianist he is active in
Italy, abroad and in the recording world; a CD has recently been issued in collaboration with the
Giovane Quartetto Italiano, receiving enthusiastic acclaim in all specialised journals. He teaches
the piano at the Milan Conservatoire. In the theatre he has worked as composer with highly
prestigious state theatres, such as the Siracusa Ancient Greek Theatre in Sicily (Sophocles's Electra),
the Genoa and Venice Stabile Theatres (Lessing's Nathan the Wise, H. von Kleist's Marquise von O…)

One of his greatest successes was the music composed for The Rape of Proserpina by P.M. Rosso
di San Secondo, performed at the Orestiadi, the important Drama Festival held annually on the site
of the Sicilian city of Gibellina destroyed in the 1968 earthquake, now a major cultural centre in Italy.
He has composed the music for many other theatrical successes, including two shakespearian productions,
The Winter's Tale in 1988 and Henry V in 1993.

Anna and Mario live in Milan and have two children: Benedetta (20) and Beniamino (11).