# CD review: Silvio Amato – Variations Of Relevance 2020: Video, CD cover

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- Published: 2020-03-31T12:47:38+01:00
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**Pianist/Composer Silvio Amato delivers a remarkable beautiful album titled, “Variations
of Relevance” produced by Grammy Award Winner Jimmy Haslip. Featuring guest appearances
by The Budapest Symphony Orchestra, trumpeter Randy Brecker and many other talented
musicians on this Jazz Crossover release. Picture After an intensive career as a
young pianist working for important pop Italian singers in Catania, his birth town,
Amato moved to Milan in the mid-’80s, where he continued his work as a composer 
and an arranger.**

During this time, Amato began to collaborate with a variety of pop artists; his 
musical productions extended to a wide range of sectors, but the television-cinematographic
one received the most focus. Among his productions, the most significant ones are
his compositions for children’s TV shows of the Italian network, Mediaset. Just 
as remarkable are his productions of all genres for the main national networks: 
theme songs for prime time shows and newscasts, TV shows and soap operas, sit-coms
and TV movies. Amato’s productions also include numerous movie soundtracks, such
as for the movies “I Mitici” (“The Heroes”) by Carlo Vanzina, “Svitati” (“Screw 
Loose”) with Mel Brooks, “Ti voglio bene Eugenio” (“Eugenio, I love you”) with Giuliana
De Sio and Giancarlo Giannini, and the soundtrack for Jerry Calà’s “Torno a vivere
da solo” in 2008 and “Operazione Vacanze”, in 2011.

Amato frequently collaborated with spotlighted artists in the Italian music scene,
who have appeared at various points in time at the Sanremo Music Festival: “Ti penso”
composed for Massimo Ranieri for the 42nd edition of the Sanremo Festival and “Amoreunicoamore”
sung by Mina in her 2010 album “Caramelle”, among others. Silvio Amato In 2005 Amato
began his collaboration with the Wild Rose Company in London, and was commissioned
to compose music for their dance shows on ice. His compositions for Snow White on
ice (2005), Peter Pan on ice (2006) and Beauty and the Beast on ice (2007) were 
sensationally successful for both critics and audience. In the last few years, Amato’s
creative activity has taken various paths: on one side, his cinematographic compositions;
on the other, his productions for orchestras and musical ensembles.

The latter category includes his Religious Cantata for voice, chorus and symphonic
orchestra, his Ricercare in re minore for the sax, soprano, and organ, composed 
for the duo Tagliaferri-Sciddurlo, and his The Happy Prince, a musical tale for 
instrumental ensemble and voice over. This last work, created in March 2006, was
published by Feltrinelli-Curci within the project “arte solidale” in collaboration
with ACLI. This opera was performed by the Instrumental Ensemble Scaligero (directed
by Flavio Emilio Scogna and by Gabriele Lavia, voice over), who, in the summer of
2007 performed, The Happy Prince in Japan. In 2009 the opera was performed in various
Italian theatres. Also in 2007, in collaboration with the Ambrogino d’Oro, a children
show founded in 1964, Amato participates with the song “Dino and Tino”, that was
awarded the first prize. In 2009,

Amato moved to the USA where he began various collaborations in the cinematographic,
theatrical, and TV sectors. The opera “Religious Cantata” that was initially developed
in Italy towards the end of 2008,was finally produced, and much acclaimed, in 2011
in Boston, with the title “Illuminessence, prayers for peace”. This piece marked
the closing of the events in memory of the victims of 9/11 in New York. The opera
was performed by the orchestra and choir “The NEC Youth Philharmonic”, directed 
by Benjamin Zander. The concert was broadcast on air by WGBH nation-wide and was
streamed world wide Silvio Amato.

01. Between The Clouds
 02. Blue Roses 03. Ligeti 04. Night Of The 7 Moons 05. Rimembranze
06. Scarlet Letters 07. Sonnet Melancholia 08. Thruthful Intentions 09. Three Views
Of A Secret

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