The concerts of the State Police Musical Band summarize various experiences that illustrate the path
of wind music through the history of music and custom.
The Musical Ensemble has always provided significant signs of modernity over time, with a continuously updated choice of pieces.
The vast repertoire, considered among the most complete and representative, includes pages by classical composers (Beethoven, Wagner, Rossini, Verdi, Moussorgski, Ravel and others) alongside to original compositions for Wind Orchestra by modern and contemporary composers such as Hindemith, Schonberg, Holst, Barnes, Reed, Sparke along with a marked sensitivity to masterpieces of symphonic-choral literature (Verdi, Tchaikovsky, Borodin, Orff).
Established in 1928 under the leadership of Maestro Giulio Andrea Marchesini, the State Police Musical Band boasts piano and guitar in its 103-piece ensemble, in addition to winds and percussion. The high artistic profile of its interpretations and the quality of the programs offered, qualify it among the best international wind orchestras.
Collaborations with prestigious musical institutions such asAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, the Comunale in Florence and excellent
world-renowned artists such as Mariella Devia, Leon Bates, Vincenzo La Scola, Fiorenza Cedolins, Cheryl Porter, Steven Mead, Stefano Bollani are eloquent testimony to this.
Great interest and considerable prestige have been aroused by the international performances to Jerusalem, New York, Essen, Mexico, Malta and Oslo in which the Band has represented Italy with all prominence. Recently, it participated in the Columbus Day celebrations 2008 to New York, holding a concert at the Hammerstein Ballroom in Manhattan and at the Italian Embassy to Washington.
Under the guidance of Maestro Maurizio Billi, the ensemble has reached levels of undisputed quality witnessed from recordings that have received unanimous acclaim.

With the participation of the students of the Accademia Nazionale d'Arte Drammatica Silvio d'Amico Roberta Catalano, Andrea Paolotti, Giorgia Visani

Maurizio Billi
He completed his musical studies at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory of Music in Rome, graduating in Composition, Choral Music and Choral Conducting, Band Instrumentation, Clarinet and Conducting with highest honors. He earned a Postgraduate Diploma in Composition atAccademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia under Franco Donatoni. He holds a degree in Literature from the University "La Sapienza" in Rome and is involved in musicological research with specialized publications, obtaining in 2004 the "Mario Soldati Prize for Journalism and Criticism" with the Essay on Goffredo Petrassi published from Sellerio. His activity as a composer has earned him numerous prizes and awards nationally and internationally. His works, published and recorded for Edipan, Sonzogno, Berben, Fonè, Quadrivium, Pentaphon and Rugginenti, have been performed in Italy and abroad, broadcast and radioed by RAI. Among other awards, he was awarded to Rome the coveted "European Personality Award" for the year 2000 and 2009. Considered a reference figure in the panorama of Wind Orchestras to international level, he is a member of WEMA (Wind European Music Association) and Artistic Director of the "Romualdo Marenco" International Composition Festival and Competition and is often invited to Juries of numerous national and international competitions of musical performance and composition. In 2004, he was awarded the prestigious title of Corresponding Academician by the Academy of Music of Valencia.
He has been teaching Musical Analysis for the Advanced Course at the Conservatory of Music in Teramo and Conducting and Instrumental Practice for Wind Orchestra for the two-year Advanced Course at the Conservatory
of Music Santa Cecilia in Rome.
Guest conductor of prestigious Symphony Orchestras (Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della Rai, Filarmonica '900 del Teatro Regio di Torino and Filarmonica di Torino, Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, I Solisti di Perugia, Roma Sinfonietta, Orchestra Sinfonica di Botosani e Oradea, Orchestra of the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, State Symphony Orchestra of Adana (Turkey), National Philharmonic Orchestra "Sergej Prokof'ev".Since 1992 he has been the conductor of the State Police Band, with which he has performed more than 500 concerts in Italy and abroad. His interest in symphonic-choral music has led him to to realize numerous productions with artistic ensembles of the main Italian opera-symphonic foundations, including those of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia, Opera in Rome, Comunale in Florence, Teatro Regio in Turin and Parma, and Teatro Massimo in Palermo. With the Banda Musicale della Polizia di Stato, considered among the best Wind Orchestras to international level, he is engaged in an intense activity of promotion and dissemination of original music for contemporary and 20th century winds.

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