Biografy
music telling about  Sicily

Carlo Muratori is a singer-composer who lives and works in Syracuse, Sicily. While still at the early phase of his musical career as a rock and pop guitarist, his passion for popular Sicilian culture, customs and traditions, songs and music of the lowly poor people of his native Sicily has been greatly manifest. For this, he has dedicated himself to the study and research of Sicilian music of oral tradition.
In 1977 his researches led to the formation of I Cilliri, a musical group that promoted some popular songs regarding the passion for work and struggle. With "I Cilliri", he performed a number of concerts in Sicily and recorded two albums: Sutta 'n velu (1979) and Dda bbanna a muntagna (1980). In 1987 he launched the album Afrodite, wherein he was the soloist. "Afrodite" is an experimental album, a clear music of ethnical background yet not 'ancient'. Together with traditional acoustic instruments, sounds from other cultures and electronic sounds are intermingled as well as popular songs and new songs. It is, therefore a medley of jazz, folk and pop music.
In 1994 he signed a contract with the CGD-WARNER for which he launched Canti e Incanti (Nov.'94) and Stella Maris (March '96), two albums of his new songs. With the first CD, he won the December 1994 National award "Piero Ciampi". The reviews proved to be enthusiastic and unanimously positive. In June 1995, he participated for Max Generation at the SONORIA festival in Milan. Two musical pieces from the album were included in the musical background of LA PIOVRA 7. With "Stella Maris", he won the prize, during the referendum announced by Vivere Giovani (of the daily La Sicilia\ as the best album written by a Sicilian author of 1996.
In June 1997, in Vercelli, he was invited to represent Sicily in FOLKEMESSE, an experimental orchestra of ethnical music formed by the most representative Italian musicians of the genre. (Ambrogio Sparagna, Riccardo Tesi, Daniele Sepe, Elena Ledda, Lucilla Galeazzi and others).
He recorded in December 1997 Stidda di I'Orienti - echoes of Christmas songs of Sicilian folks.
In December 1998, he participated (representing Italy) at the IBM World Music Festival of Belo Horizonte in Brazil, obtaining the first place in the popular index and in the Brazilian music reviews.
In March 1999, after the production of AICS, he launched Pesah, an elaboration for polyphonically choir and room orchestra of Good Friday lamentations in Sicily.
From July 25 to August 4 2000, he organized and directed every year LITHOS-transiti a sud est, a national collection of popular music, acoustic and contemporary, with a thematic itinerary that crosses through the province of Syracuse.
In the meantime, he is working on a survey of ethno-musical phenomena of "Iblei siracusani" and is conducting a research on songs dealing on work and on sacred music of the town folks of the province.
Recently, he collaborated for the drafting of "Thapsos", the last album of Riccardo Tesi for the Manifesto, and for which he wrote three musical pieces (Fammi ballare and the text of Largo Waltzer and Thapsos).
In January 2001 his recent record was launched: PLICA POLONICA - non tagliate quella treccia. Another collection of his new songs.
In January 2005 comes out Sicily a compilation of classic popular Sicilian songs.

Cinema

1. 2007: Sound-track for the film Liscio, starring Laura Morante, directed by Claudio Antonini, and awarded at the ROME FILM FEST. One track was given the Nastri D’Argento per il Cinema nomination as best original song for cinema.
2. 2007: one track included in the sound track for the film L’Uomo di Vetro (The Glass Man), produced by Rai Cinema and Red film, directed by Stefano Incerti. It took part in the competition Taormina Film Fest.

Theatre

• 2007:  He set Il Vitalizio to music, a play written by Luigi Pirandello. Adaptation A. Camilleri, direction W. Manfrè. It was put on stage at V. Emanuele theatre in Messina and at the Teatro Stabile in Catania.
• 2007:  He set Mastro don Gesualdo to music, a novel written by Giovanni Verga. Actors Andrea Tidona, G. Aronica, V. Andrea, adaptation D. Fabbri, direction R. Minardi. It was put on stage at the Festival “Verghiane” in Vizzini, Catania.
  In March 2008 comes out La Padrona del Giardino new cd with ten new songs