Background
Romitelli was born on 1 February 1963 in Gorizia.
Romitelli was born on 1 February 1963 in Gorizia.
He studied composition at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan and subsequently took part in courses at the Accademia Chigiana di Siena with Franco Donatoni and at the Scuola Civica di Milano.
He moved to Paris in 1991, where he became a student of Hugues Dufourt and Gérard Grisey. From 1993 to 1995 he was compositeur en recherche at IRCAM. He died aged 41 on 27 June 2004 in Milan following a long battle with cancer.