Frank Pesci MATHIASKIRCHPLATZ 29 · 50968 KÖLN DEUTSCHLAND · 0176 7230 5503 · pescif@gmail.com US Address: c/o Jean Hindrichs 305 Annette Drive Slidell, LA 70458 · Google voice: (617) 684-5845
Frank Pesci (b. 1974) is an American composer based in Germany. His compositions have been performed throughout North America and Europe. His expansive catalogue of sacred choral music is published by E.C. Schirmer, as is his full-length opera, The System of Soothing. One-act operas, solo pieces, chamber music, art song, and works for large ensemble are published by Ichthus Music Press. Recent performances include works written for the Mars Hill College Saxophone Quartet and the What is Noise ensemble, the premiere workshop performance of his one-act opera, Trade, at Boston Conservatory, and songs with texts by National Book Award-winning poet, Terrance Hayes. Current projects include two new one-act operas, new chamber music and songs, an oratorio setting of "Two Medieval Monks Invent Bestiaries" on a text by Mallory Ortberg of the-toast.net, and the world premiere of his three-act opera The System of Soothing. Also a professional copyist and arranger, he worked on the reconstruction of Benjamin Britten's two-piano arrangement of Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tirèsias. His jazz, Pops and Christmas arrangements have been heard by thousands at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe, and his orchestrations were featured on the debut solo album by Kammersänger Eddie Gauntt. Pesci had a twelve-year career as a professional liturgical musician. As a soloist, staff singer, conductor, arranger and educator, he served parishes in Mississippi, Indiana, and the mid-Atlantic, including Trinity Church in the City of Boston, and the Basilica of the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington, D.C.. Recently, he transitioned from church choir to opera chorus, appearing in over 100 performances at the Badisches Staatstheater Karlsruhe. He worked for arts education and performing arts non-profits throughout the mid-Atlantic and New England regions. He held teaching positions at the Bethesda Academy of Performing Artsand Theatre Lab, oversaw operations and community engagment with the Suzuki School of Newton and Brookline Music School, was Associate Artistic Director of Boston Opera Collaborative, and was Executive Director of the New Hampshire Music Festival. He is a graduate of the University of Cincinnati and the University of Southern Mississippi, where he was the recipient of the Presser Award. He has studied with Luigi Zaninelli, John Heiss, and Daron Hagen. He lives in Cologne, Germany with his wife, Emily Hindrichs, and their daughter, Sophia Jane. He blogs at 371 Chorales.