LECTURER/ARTIST Middlebury College (Bennington Campus) (2025)
Visby International Center for Composers, Sweden (2024)
Syracuse University School of Music (2022)
University of Louisiana, Monroe (2021, 2024)
Indiana State University, Terre Haute (2019)
Boston University- Musicology International Conference (2012)
Conservatory of Amsterdam-Dutch-Flemish Society for Music Theory
Fitchburg State University, MA
Metropolia University (Helsinki, Finland)
SUNY Potsdam Crane School of Music
International Jazz Composers’ Symposium Tampa FL
International Association of Jazz Educators (NYC and CA)
Toronto 2000: Musical Intersections
Scarborough High School, ME
Atlantic Union College, MA
Presentations
· Cuori in Fiamme: tra Sogni d’Amore, Gelosia, e Vangloria (Hearts on Fire: Dreams of Love, Jealousy, and Vainglory). Interactive presentation of recital by James Demler (bass), and Pei-Yeh Tsai (piano). Music by Mozart, Verdi, Tosti, and Handel, at the Italian School at Middlebury College (Bennington Campus), VT July 25, 2025
· Exploring the Role of Listening and Analysis in Composition. Music discussed included Ligeti’s Lux Aeterna, Stravinsky’s Symphony of Psalms. Society for Composers Inc. Conference, Syracuse University School of Music, Syracuse, NY, 2022.
· Presentation as Orchestral Composition Contest Winner. Topics explored: personal preferences/ musical interests; some of my working processes and composing principles. Music discussed included Ligeti’s Hamburg Concerto, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, and my Introduzione e Siciliana. 53rd Contemporary Music Festival, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, 2019.
· Debussy, Ives, and Bartok (Classical Music Department), Music in Film (Film and Television Department), Jazz Composition and Ensemble Directing (Jazz Department). Metropolia University- Helsinki Finland, Visiting Professor.
Curatorial
Canti e Cantici Concert Series at Fitchburg State University, MA
· Music in the Age of Humanism and Scientific Revolution: Composers of the Renaissance and Baroque Era
Workshop: Process of composing (stimuli, stages, concepts, timelines)
Performers: Elise Groves, soprano, Caroline Rossiter Olsen, mezzo-soprano, Sean Lair, tenor, Elijah Blaisdell, baritone, Triton Brass Quintet, 2016
· Cent’ Anni di Musica e Cultura Italiana (A Hundred Years of Italian Music and Culture)
Performers: Dominick Matsko, baritone, Klaudia Szlachta, violin, Neil Godwin, horn, Pei-yeh Tsai, piano, Dominique Eade, vocals, and Tim Ray, piano, 2015
Workshop: Words and Music, Musical Cryptograms
· Una Serata di Musica Italiana (An Evening of Italian Music)
Performers: Maria Ferrante, soprano, Emily Jaworski, mezzo-soprano, Sean Lair, tenor, James Demler, baritone, Klaudia Szlachta, violin, Monica Duncan, clarinet, and Hyun-ji Kwon, violoncello, Pei-yeh Tsai, piano, 2014
Workshop: Imagination, Invention, Integrity.
· Songs and Arias on Timeless Italian Poetry (Donizetti, Rossini, Verdi, Puccini)
Performers: Maria Ferrante, soprano, Daniela Tosic, mezzo-soprano, Sean Lair, tenor, James Demler, baritone, Klaudia Szlachta, violin, Monica Duncan, clarinet, and Hyun-ji Kwon, violoncello, Pei-yeh Tsai, piano, 2013
Workshop: Instrumental virtuosity and Bel Canto
· Songs and Arias on Timeless Italian Poetry (Donizetti, Rossini, Puccini)
Performers: Maria Ferrante, soprano, and Pei-Yeh Tsai, piano, 2012
Workshop: Performer-Composer collaboration
Composer Talks
New Music on the Bayou Festival, Louisiana (2021, 2022, 2025)
Willapa Bay AIR, Washington, 2024
Visby International Center for Composers, Sweden, 2024
Foundation Obras, Portugal, 2022
Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Saratoga, WY, 2019
Escape to Create, Rep Theater, Seaside, FL, 2016
Dr. Caniato has taught theory, history, directed studies, and ensembles at Fitchburg State University, MA. As longtime tenured professor he developed specialty courses such as Opera, Music in Film, graduate Conducting and Orchestration, and a Summer Institute. He is also credited with creating a music lesson program, a music technology lab, and a highly successful concert series with masterclasses and lectures. He previously taught graduate and undergraduate courses and ensembles at Boston University, and woodwind instrumental lessons at public and private schools.He gives frequent workshops on his music and that of others, has lectured at Metropolia University-Helsinki, Finland, presented papers at national and international conferences, and has given pre-concert talks for guest artists such as Dominique Eade, Dianne Reeves, and Tierney Sutton. He has served as book proposal reviewer for Oxford University Press, panel reviewer for the Massachusetts Cultural Council, and judge and clinician for Thayer Young Artists Concert (Atlantic Union College), and the Maine Band Directors Concert Band Festival.
His scholarly and teaching work has been recognized with various grants and awards such as Amelia Gallucci-Cirio Endowment and Ruth Butler grants, a Faculty Scholarship/Creative Award, two Leadership Awards, two sabbaticals, and the Student Government Association Faculty of the Year Award from Fitchburg State University.