 Castagnoli has also received commissions from Radio France, RAI-Italian Radio, the City of Geneva, Stamford Chamber Orchestra (U.S.A.), Radio Suisse Romande, and from festivals, soloists and ensembles including the Elision Ensemble, Melbourne, Nieuw Ensemble, Amsterdam, Divertimento Ensemble, Milan, Xenia Ensemble, Turin.Castagnoli was invited by DAAD – Senate of Berlin as composer in residence 1998–99 and in summer 2003.As a musicologist, he obtained scholarship from the Paul Sacher Foundation, Basel in 1999.