Salvatore Sciarrino has been played over 10 times on NTS, first on 30 April 2017. Salvatore Sciarrino's music has been featured on 13 episodes.

Salvatore Sciarrino (born Palermo, Italy, on April 4, 1947) is an Italian composer of contemporary classical music.

Salvatore Sciarrino likes to boast that he was born free and not in a school of music. Self-taught, he began to compose when he was twelve. His first public concert was given in 1962. But Sciarrino considers what he wrote before 1966 as immature works of apprenticeship, for it is then that his personal style came to the fore. There is something truly special about…