Born in 1966 in Sesto San Giovanni, Milan, Italy. He attained three graduations at the State Conservatorium of Music “G. Verdi” in Milan, Italy, in Piano, in Composition and in Computer Music. He studied piano with Sergio Morandini, Flavio Vailati, Luigi Zanardi and Bruno Canino and composition with Pippo Molino, Niccolò Castiglioni and Franco Donatoni. He studied Computer Music with Riccardo Sinigaglia.

He has been playing concerts as a pianist since 1985, performing mainly Bach, rarely performed programs devoted to specific subjects, 20th century composers, contemporary music. He has played together with the clarinetist Alessandro Travaglini and the oboist Daniele Scanziani and, in a four-hands piano duo, with Gianandrea Noseda.

Being a very active composer both abroad (with performances in The Netherlands, Brazil, U.S.A., Switzerland, Portugal, England, Israel, Sweden) and in Italy (with performances of his works in many concerts and festivals), he has worked together with Insight Quartet, Linz Trompeten Ensemble, duo Cuypers-Lop, Duo 46, Quartetto Grandi, Ensemble Webern, New Made Ensemble, Luca Colardo, Gemma Bertagnolli, Stefano and Daniele Bragetti, Silvia Cesco, Francesco Libetta, Gianandrea Noseda, Emanuele Segre, Enrico Viccardi, David Whitwell, Leopoldo Saracino.
Some compositions of his have been broadcast on Radio Vaticana, the Italian State Radio Rai-Radiotre and the National Radio of Argentina and have been published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni and ABEditore.
His compositions show his interest for the music traditions of the world, for the ancient music, for the early 20th century, for the natural sounds and forms, for the Nordic culture, the mountains, anthropology, prehistory, fairy tales, oral traditions, but, moreover, for the tone color of the chords.

He worked as a musicologist in Italy and Lithuania, being the author of a new method used to classify the chords according to their tone color, to be applied in atonal or late-tonal music, conceived as a way to give a logical feeling of direction to the harmony even outside tonality, useful both in musicology (to analyse the music of historical authors) and in the daily practice of contemporary composition; this method can also be applied through a software for computer-assisted composition.

He has been teaching Composition, Piano, Harmony, Music Analysis and Ethnomusicology in various courses at the Liceo Musicale in Monza (Italy), at the Music School of Brugherio (Milan, Italy), and at the Italian State Conservatoires in Brescia and Cagliari.
He is now full professor of “Harmony and Music Analysis” at the State Conservatoire of Music “G. Verdi” in Milan, Italy (focusing on the practical use of analysis to improve performance and understanding of a piece, especially for piano students), where he is also appointed professor of Ethnomusicology.

He has an international scientific activity also as a scholar in folklore studies.

Activities: composer (instrumental contemporary chamber music and computer music), pianist, musicologist, folklorist.

Languages: Italian (spoken, read and written), English (spoken, read and written); comprehension of written French.

Websites:
http://www.GKweb.it/

www.linkedin.com/in/giovannigrosskopf

soundcloud.com/giovanni-grosskopf

www.youtube.com/c/GiovanniGrosskopf

http://consmilano.academia.edu/GiovanniGrosskopf

http://www.GKweb.it/spiral

studiomusica2004@gmail.com

giovanni.grosskopf@consmilano.it