Giorgio Battistelli (Albano Laziale, 1953) studied composition at the Conservatory of L’Aquila where he received his diploma in 1978. At the same time he attended seminars given by Karlheinz Stockhausen and Mauricio Kagel in Cologne. In 1978-1979 he took courses in contemporary music theatre taught by Jean Pierre Drouet and Gaston Sylvestre in Paris. In 1981, the year he wrote, he began an intense period of composing for music theatre. His works have been performed at the at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Salisburg and Lucerne Festivals, the Biennale and Gasteig in Munich, the Berlin Biennale, the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, La Scala in Milan, the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome, the Teatro Comunale in Florence, and opera houses around Europe and in Australia, Japan, USA, China etc. His music has been performed by conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Lorin Maazel, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Ádám Fischer, Jukka-Pekka Saraste, MyungWhun Chung, Susanna Mälkki, and Zoltán Peskó. He has collaborated with directors Robert Carsen, Luca Ronconi, Georges Lavaudant, Mario Martone, Michael Londsdale, David Pountney, Daniele Abbado, Fura dels Baus, and Studio Azzurro, and with artists such as Toni Servillo, Bruno Ganz, Ian Mc Diarmid, Philippe Leroy, Moni Ovadia, and Vladimir Luxuria.  Conferred with the title Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture, he has been Composer-in-residence at the Antwerp Opera and the Deutsche Opera am Rhein in Düsseldorf and is currently in residence at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples. He has garnered much experience as an Artistic Director with the Orchestra della Toscana (where he returned in 2011), the Venice Biennale, the Società Aquilana dei Concerti, the Accademia Filarmonica Romana, the Fondazione Arena di Verona, and the Cantiere d'Arte di Montepulciano. He taught at Aldeburgh Music and as of this year will teach the course “Progetto Opera” at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. For the inauguration of the 2015 Expo in Milan he was commissioned by La Scala to write the opera, An Inconvenient Truth, based on the text by Al Gore.

The Icarus Ensemble was founded in 1994. This internationally acclaimed ensemble has perdormed in four continents: In Europe (Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, England, Switzerland, Croatia, France, Germany, Azerbaijan, Ireland, Lithuania, Romani, Moldavia, Malta), the Americas (Mexico, Argentina, USA), Africa (Egypt) and Asia (Japan, Thailand, Indonesia. The ensemble is (currently) based out of the Teatro di Reggio Emilia, Italy.In Italy, the ensemble has performed for nearly all the most important institutions and festivals.

The artistic collaborations of greater importance are among these, work with director Yoshi Oida, Daniele Abbado, Franco Ripa di Meana, Christian Boltanski, Francesco Micheli, Lorenzo Mijares, with the Agon Studies, with Fabrica , Otolab, Luca Scarzella Roberto Paci Dalo, with the actors John DeLeo, Michele DeMarchi and Ivana Monti. The latest productions have included interpreters from the international electronic and post-techno arena such as Staalplaat Soundsystem, (Holland), Pan Sonic (Finland), Matmos (USA), Andi Toma of "Mouse on Mars"(Germany). Among the conductors the ensemble has hosted are are the likes of Giorgio Bernasconi, Pietro Borgonovo, Erasmo Gaudiomonte, Giovanni Landini, Andrea Molino, Renato Rivolta, Saša Britvić, Flavio Emilio Scogna, Yoichi Sujiama, Juan Trigos, Pierre Andre Valade, Pierangelo Valtinoni and Jonathan Webb. Icarus has often joined in special collaborative projects with other ensembles such as Alter Ego, Neuvocalsolisten (Germany) and Cantus (Croatia), Coro Claudio Merulo. The ensemble is regularly a guest of RAI radio programs and its concerts have been broadcast by Japanese, Mexican, Argentinian, Dutch, French, Swiss, Romanian and Azerbaigianian national television stations. The ensemble has recorded for major recording companies such as Ricordi, Stradivarius, Bottega Discantica, Sincronie, Ariston and Spaziomusica, Angelica.

Marco Angius dirigirao je komornim orkestrom L’Ensemble Intercontemporain, Tokijskim filharmonijskim orkestrom, Nacionalnim simfonijskim orkestrom Talijanske radiotelevizije (RAI) u Torinu, Orkestrom umjetničkog festivala Maggio Musicale Fiorentino izvedbama kazališta Teatro Comunale u Bologni, Simfonijskim orkestrom „Giuseppe Verdi“ u Milanu, Orkestrom Talijanske Švicarske, Komornim orkestrom Lausanne, Orkestrom u Toskani, Simfonijskim orkestrom Lecce, orkestrom I Pomeriggi Musicali u Milanu, Luksemburškom filharmonijom, kao i izvedbama koncertne dvorane Muziekgebouw/Bimhuis u Amsterdamu, izvedbama kulturnog centra La Filature u Mulhouseu te izvedbama operne kuće Teatro Lirico u Cagliariju. Gostovao je na brojnim europskim glazbenim festivalima.

Bio je asistent Antonija Pappana u izvedbi i snimanju Rossinijeve opere Guillaume Tell (EMI, 2011.). Godine 2002. godine osnovao je ansambl Algoritmo, s kojim je osvojio nagradu Premio del Disco Amadeus 2007. zaMixtim Ivana Fedelea. S ansamblom je snimio brojne izvedbe, među kojima Luci mie traditrici Salvatorea Sciarrina (za etikete Euroarts i Stradivarius). S Nacionalnim simfonijskim orkestrom Talijanske radiotelevizijesnimio je sve skladbe za violinu i orkestar Ivana Fedelea, a s gudačkim kvartetom Prometeo integralnu verziju serije skladbi Imaginary Landscapes Johna Cagea.

Marco Angius autor je monografije o djelima Salvatorea Sciarrina (Come avvicinare il silenzio) i knjige Ali di Cantor o glazbi Ivana Fedelea, kao i brojnih tekstova o suvremenoj glazbi prevedenih na razne jezike.Recentne produkcije kojima je ravnao uključuju djela Jakob Lenz Wolfganga Rihma, Doživljaji lukave lije Leoša Janáčeka, L’Italia del destino Luce Mosce te intenzivnu koncertnu aktivnost s Komornim orkestrom milanske Scale, mladim sastavom s kojim surađuje od 2011. kao umjetnički ravnatelj.

Marco Angius has conducted various ensembles and orchestras, such as Ensemble Intercontemporain, Tokyo Philharmonics, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro Comunale of Bologna, Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi of Milano, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne, I Pomeriggi Musicali, and the Luxembourg Philmarmonics, as well as performances in Muziekgebouw/Bimhuis in Amsterdam, Filature of Mulhouse, Teatro Lirico of Cagliari. He has performed at a number of European music festivals.

Angius was Antonio Pappano assistant for Rossini’s Guillaume Tell (EMI, 2011). In 2002 he founded the ensemble Algoritmo (Amadeus Prize 2007 for the best recording of the year, for Mixtim by Ivan Fedele publishedby Stradivarius). They have made several other recordings, for example, Sciarrino’s Luci mie traditrici for Euroarts and Stradivarius. With the RAI National Orchestra he recorded all the works for violin and orchestra by Ivan Fedele, and with the Prometeo String Quartet the integral version of Imaginary Landscapes by John Cage.

Marco Angius is the author of Come avvicinare il silenzio, a book about Salvatore Sciarrino's compositions, Ali di Cantor, about the music of Ivan Fedele. He also wrote a number of widely translated articles on contemporary music. He recently conducted Jakob Lenz by Wolfgang Rihm, Cunning Little Vixen by Janáček and L’Italia del destino by Luca Mosca. He has also been conducting the concerts of the Chamber Orchestra of La Scala, whose artistic director he became in 2011.