Started working with Neapolitan composer Roberto De Simone
as conductor and composer on productions including : "Le tarantelle del
rimorso", "Populorum
Progressio", "Li Turchi viaggiano" (published on CD in 2003), Memento
Momento” with Nino D’Angelo (2013), “Canti della Dimenticanza”(2019), “Tra
scritture e trascritture” (2020) etc.
In 1995 he wrote "Canto della possibilità di
sopravvivere" for the saxophone of Michael Brecker and orchestra.
The "Messa per il tempo di guerra", dates from
1997 and was performed at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatoire of Naples.
Between 1999 and 2001,
Paliotti conceived a series of compositions for the "I solisti del Teatro
San Carlo", which were subsequently collected in a CD produced in 2006,
entitled "Musica Obliqua".
Next, in 2001, came
"Tarantella storta", a cd that won Paliotti an award in Germany and
two in France. The concert with this repertoire visited 12 European countries
and was broadcasted by Hessischer Rundfunk in 2002.
For the 2004 edition of
the "Leuciana Festival" he wrote the theatre play in music "Coppola Rossa" that led to the
2006 CD of the same name.
In the same year, the
Benetton Foundation commissioned a work that bore the name “Le Forme di
Dioniso”. It was performed by the Quartetto Borciani at the Treviso “Palazzo
Bomben”, together with vocalist Gianni Lamagna.
Again in the
"Leuciana Festival", he
worked, as conductor and composer, in the project “Modì Maudits”, with Sergio
Rubini, Alessandro Haber, Shawn Monteiro etc.
In 2007 he wrote the
“Variazioni concertanti” for solos and orchestra, first executed in Naples, the
same year, at the Teatro Mediterraneo.
In the same year the
Spanish tenor Joaquin Pixan commissioned the cd “Musica entre canto,
musica e poesia”, with Paliotti’s originals compositions and arrangements for a
quartet of musician by the Opera di Madrid.
In 2011 he wrote
“Concert du Printemps” for two mandolins and orchestra, commissioned by the
Festival “Mandolines de Lunel” (France) and executed by Hamilton de Holanda
& Mike Marshall.
“La leggenda di
Colapesce” is the title of a ballet in one act, with music and libretto by
Paliotti, first represented in Pisa, Teatro Verdi, in may 2013 by the
Movimentoinactor dance group.
Still at the Lunel
Festival, in 2014 he presented "Nei mari della luna”for two mandolins and
a large orchestra.
At the Opera de Lyon, in
January 2015, the show "Napoli continente" debuted, with Lucilla Galeazzi.
Also in 2015 he wrote
and performed the Cantata "Napoli non è" based on a text by R. De
Simone, for the 40th anniversary of Pasolini's death.
From 2016 he
collaborates with Marco Beasley with whom he recorded, in 2017, the CD
"Catari ', Maggio, l'Ammore".
In 2020 he wrote some
orchestrations of music by Debussy, Stravinsky and Satie for the project “Tra
scritture e trascritture”, by R. De Simone, first presented in Teatro San Carlo
(Naples)
In 2021 he participated
as solo guitarist in the broadcast of Rai 5 “Trianon Opera”.
Again with Beasley, he
wrote “Io sono una forza del passato”, after text by Pier Paolo Pasolini,
commissioned by Stresa Festival 2022.
He has realised over forty records, the most
relevant ones of which include: "Condannati a vagare sui mari", of
1996, featuring the first recordings of several of Schönberg’s “Brettl-Lieder”,
and “La montagna fredda” (2004) containing an eclectic mixture of own compositions,
and improvisations on themes taken from the classical Neapolitan tradition, and the recent “InDiferencias”, in form
of radio broadcast (2021)
Other partnerhips
include:
Cinema:
Roman Coppola, Georg Brintrup, Pappi Corsicato, Antonio Capuano and others.
Theatre: Mariano Rigillo, Moni Ovadia, Maurizio Scaparro, Cloris Brosca,
Michele Monetta, Alessandro Haber, Ettore Massarese and others.
As well as: Teatro San Carlo, Art Ensemble of Chicago, I
Zezi, ZDF-Artè, Raisat, Torino-Settembre Musica, Piccolo Teatro di Milano,
Associazione Scarlatti, Eugenio Bennato and many others.
