bio
Pietro Riccardo Tarateo is a pianist composer.
He composes, performs and teaches a broad mixture of music, blending styles that range from the wide field of classical music, to jazz, japanese music, film music, video game music and minimalism.
After winning 3rd prize in Ryan Leach's July 2022 online composition competition with the song “Clouds,” he was very motivated to start composing music professionally.
He studied at the Conservatories of Trento and Rovigo in Italy, graduating in classical piano and composition. He later specialized in media composition, focusing on music for film, television, and video games.
He has worked on several film projects, including the soundtrack for the short film “The Roleplay of Life” by Los Angeles-based Italian director Pietro Barba.
empty pages
Alongside his musical activity, he published the book of poems “Empty Pages”, which has as its cover a drawing he did in pencil. A brief description of its contents follows:
“A getaway and a quest, in a universe - that of writing - in which every word has its own meaning. An introspective journey in order to find clarity, to translate into a structured language the infinite abstraction of which human thought is capable. Empty Pages is all of these things, a collection of thoughts and reflections on what in one way or another has shaped me, a collection of events seen from the perspective of my own eyes, a stream of deep feelings experienced on my own skin, a glimpse into a world that I often struggle to understand.”
The book is available for purchase on Amazon.