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Something about Raffaele

Raffaele Cipriano is an Italian conductor, vocal coach, pianist, and composer, as well as a computer scientist. He started his musical experience at a young age, as the pianist and music director in his parish. He earned degrees in piano performance, choral music and orchestral conducting at the Conservatories of Padova and Venice and studied at European Academy of Conducting in Vicenza. He later specialized in opera coaching and conducting, as well as in composition. 

He has conducted in important venues of the Veneto area, such as the Olimpic Theatre in Vicenza, the Pollini Auditorium in Padova, and the St. Mark Cathedral in Venice. In 2012 he wrote the short opera Cecè, based on a play by the Italian Nobel Prize winner Luigi Pirandello, receiving overwhelmingly positive feedback by the audience and the artists. He has been assistant of Maestro Giovanni Bonato for several years, focusing on ancient and contemporary polychoral works for spatialized choirs.

In 2015 he started the DMA program in orchestral conducting at the University of Kansas, as the assistant of Maestro David Neely. He has conducted several productions in Lawrence, including Marriage of Figaro, Don Giovanni, Little Women and Candide at KU, as well as Magic Flute, Traviata and Falstaff for the Lawrence Opera Theater. At the Lawrence Arts Center he served as ballet accompanist and conducted the productions of Peter and the Wolf and Kansas Nutcracker. In the KC area, he is active as the artistic and music director of two community orchestras, the Philharmonia of Greater Kansas City and the Overland Park Orchestra. After graduating with honors at KU in 2018, Cipriano joined the music staff of Sarasota Opera for the 2018-2019 season, as the coach and assistant/cover conductor for the Barber of Seville, Turdandot, and Nabucodonosor.

Since October 2019 he started his position as Music Director at the Good Shepherd Catholic Church in Shawnee, where he coordinates many talented volunteers and professionals of the parish in bringing a quality and touching musical experience to the community.

Cipriano also has an academic background in information technology, with a PhD in computer science from the University of Udine and five months of post-doctoral research on artificial intelligence at New Mexico State University in 2010.

"Music is a moral law. It gives a soul to the universe, wings to the mind, flight to the imagination, a charm to sadness, and life to everything. It is the essence of order, and leads to all that is good, just and beautiful, of which it is the invisible, but nevertheless dazzling, passionate, and eternal form."
- Plato -