Dr. Paolo Bellomia

Biography

Paolo Bellomia is a professor of orchestral conducting and head of the orchestral conducting graduate program at the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal. He regularly conducts masterclasses in conducting worldwide. Bellomia studied music at the Université de Montréal, first training as a pianist and then obtaining a double master's degree in composition and writing techniques under André Prévost and Massimo Rossi. He later earned a doctorate in orchestral conducting with Lorraine Vaillancourt as his research supervisor. From 1996 to 1998, he toured Europe with conductor Peter Eötvös, gaining significant experience with 20th-century composers such as Birtwistle, Ferneyhough, Kurtag, Ligeti, and Stockhausen. Bellomia has received several significant grants for his projects from the Quebec Fund for Research on Society and Culture. He is also a recipient of a grant from the Canadian Foundation for Innovation to support the realization of his multimedia treatise on Boulezian conducting, dedicated to conducting post-romantic and contemporary repertoire. In Montreal, he conducts Orchestre 21, a symphonic ensemble dedicated to contemporary works. Bellomia has a vast repertoire ranging from Mozart to Boulez and has conducted in various countries, including Austria, Brazil, Bulgaria, Ecuador, Spain, the Netherlands, France, Italy, Mexico, the Czech Republic, Russia, and several cities in the United States and Canada.

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