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Photograph by Nancy Jo Snider
Antonio Forte is a composer, sound artist, and educator from Rhode Island. He creates process-driven, research-based music to tell stories, build sonic worlds, and explore identity. His ongoing scholarly research utilizes 'Experimental Ethnomusicology' to unearth the individual, communal, and wider cultural stories of the ancient Samnites of south-central Italy, and to bring the "dead" Oscan language back to life through both instrumental and vocal music compositions.
Antonio studied Fine Art at SACI in Florence, Italy. He holds a BA in Music from American University, in Washington, DC, where he also studied sculpture, and holds an MFA in Music Composition from Vermont College of Fine Arts in Montpelier, VT.
He is a teaching artist of both music and visual arts through programs including BEAM camp, Rhode Island State Council on the Arts, the Artists' Exchange, Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School, and Quest Montessori School. He is the founder and conductor of a youth orchestra called the OrQuestra. He has been a guest lecturer/performer nationally and internationally, at the University of Rhode Island (RI), American University (DC), the Rhode Island Philharmonic Music School (RI), Vermont College of Fine Arts (VT), the Museum of Loss and Renewal (Italy), and Art Center Padula (Italy).
Antonio's compositions have been performed by groups including Aurora Chamber Orchestra, The City of Tomorrow, Hapax Trio, Mobius Percussion, INTERFERENCE new music collective, Quince Ensemble, and Trio Lunaire. He has created original scores and sound design for art galleries and installations, documentary films, podcast series, and theatre productions.
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