Cesare Saldicco is a composer, multimedia artist and filmmaker based in Milan.
He is graduated in classical piano, electroacoustic music and composition, and his artistic development has been strongly influenced by Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Luigi Ceccarelli, Ole Lützow-Holm, Philippe Hurel, Unsuk Chin, Oscar Strasnoy, Helmut Lachenmann, Gavin Bryars, Salvatore Sciarrino, Chaya Czernowin, Stefano Gervasoni and Ivan Fedele, with whom he obtains the alto perfezionamento diploma in Composition at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, Rome in 2012.
He has had commissions, awards and grants from the most significant international institutions such as Acanthes, Centro Tempo Reale, CECh – Comunidad Electroacùstica de Chile, Bourges International Festival of Electroacoustic Music and Sonic Art, CEMAT Federation, Musica Viva Portugal, EXPO2015, EmuFest, MUSLab, Mixtur Festival, AVAF Athens Video Art Festival, Destellos prize and La Biennale di Venezia.
His music is edited and published by ArsPublica, Philology, Da Vinci Publishing, Sconfinarte, RMN Classical and Stradivarius and has been widely performed in Italy, Albania, Austria, Australia, Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Bulgaria, Canada, Chile, Croatia, Denmark, Ecuador, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, India, Japan, Malta, Mexico, Portugal, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, U.S.A. and broadcasted by Italian National RadioRAI.
Starting from 2019 he is curator of MA/IN Festival, an international festival for digit and multimedia arts. He is full professor in electroacoustic music composition at Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan.