Pasquale Tassone studied at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, has an honors diploma from the Chigiana Academy in Siena and a Ph D. from Brandeis University. His teachers have included Franco Donatoni, Giacomo Manzoni and Sandro Gorli in Italy and John Clement Adams, Martin Boykan and Harold Shapero in the United States. He has written music for the University of Lowell recital series, the M.I.T. Band, The Master Singers, The Arlington-Belmont Chamber Chorus, The Arlington-Belmont Chorale and ALEA III. His String Quartet No.1 was a first prizewinner in the 1987 League- ISCM Composition Contest.
      In 1995, his Piccolo Preludio for solo piano was published in the League-ISCM Piano Book. His “bells among the spires” for carillon was chosen to be published (1998) in a book of original carillon pieces sponsored by the City of Albany (NY) in commemoration of the 75th anniversary of its carillon. His “…knell of parting day” was published (1998) by Fenwick Parva Press. His Passacaglia for Orchestra and Folksong Overture has been published by Kendor Music Co. E.C.Schirmer has published his arrangement of the Ave Maria (SATB) from Verdi’s "Otello". He was first prize winner with his Laudate Dominum, in the Catholic University’s composition contest in celebration of the 50th Anniversary of the Benjamin T. Rome School of Music (1999). In October of 2003, Mr. Tassone was an associate resident at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in Florida, working with Master Composer Olly Wilson. In June 2004, some of Mr. Tassone’s music was performed at the Artama Choral Festival in Jihlava, Czech Republic. Mr. Tassone is a founding member of the LUMEN CONTEMPORARY MUSIC ENSEMBLE, a group of composers devoted to bringing contemporary music to audiences in the Boston (MA) area. Mr. Tassone resides in Arlington, Massachusetts.