Paolo Pietropaolo is a journalist, broadcaster, composer and writer based in Vancouver, Canada.
Paolo’s radio documentaries have received a Peabody Award and the Prix Italia – the highest accolades in broadcasting – as well as several other awards. They have been broadcast in Canada, the USA, the UK, Australia, New Zealand, Germany, Finland and Ireland.
Paolo’s voice has been heard regularly on CBC Radio, Canada’s national public broadcaster, since 2001. Paolo was interim host of Hot Air in fall and winter 2009-10. He currently regularly fills in as guest host on Saturday Afternoon at the Opera and NXNW.
In 2006, Paolo was the cultural correspondent for CBC Television and Télévision de Radio-Canada during the 2006 Torino Winter Olympics, creating and presenting a series of 12 vignettes about the culture of Northern Italy. The series was called Ciao Torino and included vignettes in French and English about Barolo wine, opera at La Scala, the Slow Food movement and the Cinque Terre National Park.
In 2009, he participated in the Banff Centre Science Communications Program as a Jack Webster Fellow. His writing on science has since appeared in The Vancouver Sun and BoulderPavement.ca.
In 2010, Paolo became a member of the British Council’s Transatlantic Network 2020, also known as TN2020.
Paolo regularly composes original music for his documentary productions, and writes incidental music for plays as well.
Prior to his radio and writing career, Paolo completed a degree in music at the University of Toronto and toured extensively with the Kiyoshi Nagata Ensemble.