“Sensitive composer and serious conductor”
Lukas Foss
“Produces compositions that are clearly heard and beautifully conceived, with rich harmonic vocabulary, elegant melodic sense and satisfying, complete forms.”
Richard Cornell
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Musicians and Ensembles: Yelena Beriyeva, James Demler, Monica Duncan, Freisinger Chamber Orchestra, Neil Godwin, Kelley Hollis, Franziska Huhn, Indianapolis Chamber Orchestra, Juventas New Music Ensemble, Kammerwerke Double Wind Quintet, Hyun-ji Kwon, Sean Lair, Dominick Matsko, Public Works at Harvard University, Red Stick Saxophone Quartet, Julia Scott-Carey, Richard Seiler, Klaudia Szlachta, Claire Vangelisti, Daniela Tosic, Triton Brass, Pei-yeh Tsai.
Works have been performed nationally and internationally, including across the USA, in Canada, Italy, Finland, and on Italian National Radio, with performances at venues ranging from Merkin Hall (New York City) to Buntrock Hall (Chicago), and various universities, conservatories, and festivals. Michele Caniato has received the Fulbright Scholar Award, Massachusetts Cultural Council Artist Fellowship, Jasper Whiting Foundation Grant, and residencies at Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Escape to Create, the Adria Conservatory in Italy, and the Weston (MA) Public Schools. He is the winner of the 2019 Orchestra Composition Contest at the 53rd Contemporary Music Festival at Indiana State University, was a finalist in the BMI Foundation/Charlie Parker Composition Competition in New York, semi-finalist for the American Prize (orchestra) and is the recipient of numerous commissions from players, ensembles, and from the Center for Italian Culture at Fitchburg State University.
| Title | Instrumentation | Duration | Date |
| Sonatina | Saxophone (tenor or alto) | 5:30 | 2023 |
| Ao Viandante (To the Wayfarer) | SATB chorus (divisi), unaccompanied. Text by Veiga Simões. Sung in Portuguese. Also in version for SATB chorus (divisi), marimba four-hands, and percussion (two players total) | 8:00 | 2022 |
| Three Songs on Poems by Stephen Crane | Soprano and piano | 19:00 | 2020 |
| Landscapes | Dectet (double woodwind quintet) | 12:00 | 2019 |
| Introduzione e Siciliana | Orchestra (2,2,2,2, 2 hns, 2 tpts, timp, strings) | 7:10 | 2017 |
| A Corner of Paradise | Brass Quintet | 9:55 | 2016 |
| Fleeting | Piano | 7:00 | 2016 |
| Tempo Verra’ | Baritone, violin, horn, piano Text by Giacomo Leopardi |
12:00 | 2015 |
| Fiori Francescani | SATB soloist clarinet, violin, violoncello, piano Text by St. Francis of Assisi |
28:00 | 2015 |
| L’Infinito | Voice and piano Text by Giacomo Leopardi |
10:30 | 2012 |
| La Leggenda del Coniglio Volante | Choir and piano | 4:00 | 2006 |
| Mottetti Secolari | SATB Choir | 3:00 | 2005 |
| A Raucous Storm | SATB Choir with piano Text by Sandy Ho |
5:00 | 2004 |
| Divertimento | Saxophone quartet SATB | 7:00 | 2000 |
| Two Quasimodo Poems | Mezzosoprano, flute, string quartet, contrabass and two percussionists | 12:00 | 1993 rev. 2000 |
| Three Meditations | Baritone solo, chorus SATB, orchestra Text by Kahlil Gibran |
18:00 | 1997-98 |
| Brass Quintet | Two trumpets, french horn, trombone, tuba | 10:00 | 1995 |
| Lullaby-bye | Violoncello | 7:30 | 1994 |
| Eras, Ares | Violoncello | 10:00 | 1994 |
| Prelude-Fantasia for Harp | 8:00 | 1994 | |
| Trio Sketches | Flute and piccolo, bassoon, and tuba | 9:00 | 1992 |
Yelena Beriyeva, piano, 2019
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All music published by Michele Caniato Music (ASCAP)