He held a teaching position on his own compositions at the IV Franco Donatoni Composition Course in Mexico City, at the Kinderchor Opern Neue Musik Symposium in Berlin and at the International Festival Europa Cantat XVIII in Turin. He gave also lessons on analysis and composition at the European Seminary for Young Composers in Aosta and at the Accademia di direzione corale “Piergiorgio Righele” in Venice, and he held Masterclass in Opera Composition for ViolOpera - Teatro musicale in Treviso (IT). He teaches Instrumentation and Orchestration at the Conservatory of Vicenza. He was a member of the jury of various music competitions.

As an organist and orchestral conductor, Pierangelo Valtinoni has carried out intensive concert work with a particular focus on the twentieth century and contemporary music.

He was the founder and conductor of the Paralleli Ensemble of Vicenza and has, for some years, conducted the Icarus Ensemble of Reggio Emilia, performing concerts in Italy (Venice: Festival Galuppi; Milan: Nuove Sincronie, Scuola Civica; Turin: Società Casella; Palermo: Musica su più dimensioni; Reggio Emilia: Di Nuovo Musica, etc.), Europe (Munich: Hochschule für Musik, Gasteig; Amsterdam: Gaudeamus Week 1998) and Mexico (Guanajuato: Festival Cervantino; Mexico City: Festival Donatoni).

His compositions are played in Italy, Europe, Asia and America. They are recorded for the Ariston-Ricordi, Tactus, Discantica, Internationales Forum Junge Chormusik, Osnabrücker Jugendchor, Song & Music Production, Carus Verlag, I Polifonici Vicentini, Azzurra Music labels and have been broadcast by Deutschland Radio, Radio Berlin rbb, Danmarks Radio and the Italian Sky Classica and Radio 3. He has published by Boosey & Hawkes, Carrara, Carus-Verlag, Feniarco and Cipriani.

He had commissions from the Komische Oper Berlin, the Opernhaus Zürich the Internationales Forum Junge Chormusik of Rotenburg-Wümme, the Concorso Internazionale Organistico Gaetano Callido in Borca di Cadore, the Festival Organistico Internazionale Marco Enrico Bossi in Salò, the Duomo di Milano, the Festival Klavier Theater 2002 in Treviso and from the Società del Quartetto, the Festival Biblico 2015, the Ensemble Musagète, La Piccionaia, the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico, the Theama Teatro and the Asiago Festival 2017 in Vicenza.

He wrote four children operas:

- Il ragazzo col violino ("The boy with the violin"): libretto by Roberto Piumini, performed in 1997 in Vicenza and published by Boosey & Hawkes.

- Pinocchio: one of the most represented contemporary operas (Komische Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper [Kampnagel], Oper Leipzig, Bayerische Staatsoper [Reithalle], Teatro Regio di Torino, Moscow Pokrovsky Chamber Opera, Teatro Circo in Braga, Teatro Olimpico and Teatro Comunale in Vicenza, Opera Estate - Festival in Bassano, Teatro de la Zarzuela in Madrid, Shatin Town Hall Auditorium in Hong Kong, Gran Teatro Nacional in Lima, Landestheater Coburg, Volksoper Wien, Tulsa Opera). Libretto by Paolo Madron, published by Boosey & Hawkes. From January 8th 2019 Pinocchio will be performed, for the second consecutive year, at the Volksoper in Vienna. From 16 to 20 April 2019 Pinocchio will be performed at the Daejeon Arts Center in Daejeon (South Korea).

- La Regina delle nevi ("The Snow Queen" - "Die Schneekönigin" - "Snodröttningen"): libretto by Paolo Madron, commissioned by the Komische Oper Berlin and performed at the Komische Oper Berlin, Hamburgische Staatsoper [Kampnagel], Heinrich Schütz Konservatorium of Dresden, NorrlandsOpera in Umeå, Teatro Comunale in Vicenza, Auditorium of Milan and at the Tulsa Opera, in Tulsa, Oklahoma. In June 2015 the Dvd of the Opera was presented: it was recorded at the Komische Oper Berlin and producted by Boosey & Hawkes. From 4 to 7 October 2019 The Snow Queen will be performed in Bassano di Grappa (Italy) by Opera Estate Festival Veneto.

- Il Mago di Oz ("The Wizard of Oz" - "Der Zauberer von Oz"): libretto by Paolo Madron, published by Boosey & Hawkes and commissioned by the Opernhaus Zürich. It has been performed from November 19th 2016 to February 5th 2017 with the German translation of Hanna Francesconi. The Italian premiere was performed from October 5th to October 8th 2017 in Bassano del Grappa (VI) by Operaestate - Festival Veneto. The Wizard of Oz was performed at the Komische Oper Berlin in the 2018/2019 season and from February 8th 2019 is on stage at the Theater Erfurt (Germany).

His composition for the theatrical performance Un teatro per Jules - L’ultima rotta di Verne won the prize for the Best Musical Score at the 60th Festival Nazionale di Arte Drammatica in Pesaro.

He also received the Premio ASAC per la musica corale in 2014.

In 2017 he has been nominated Accademico Olimpico by the Accademia Olimpica in Vicenza.

In 2010, he has completed the orchestration of the las the Opera buffa Koukourgi by L. Cherubini, commissioned by Boosey & Hawkes, which was premiered on September 16th of the same year at the Stadt Theater in Klagenfurt (Austria).

He participated in the reconstruction of the opera Malombra by M.E. Bossi, for the world premiere on September 16th , 2005 at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna.

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