Alfio Fazio (born October 27, 1959) is an Italian composer of contemporary music. Fazio was born in

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and graduated in classical guitar and

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Academy of Music. He has studied guitar with Anselmo Bersano and composition in

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with Paolo Arcà and in Milan with

Niccolò Castiglioni Niccolò Castiglioni (17 July 1932 – 7 September 1996) was an Italian composer, pianist, and writer on music. Castiglioni was born and raised in Milan, where he began studying piano at the age of 7. He received his performer's diploma from th ...

, attending at the same time the Faculty of Arts in

. He is one of the founders of the Young Philharmonic Orchestra of Genova and was member of its artistic committee up to 1990. He has been active since the early 1980s as a guitarist and composer and has written works for different ensembles, varying from solo instruments to orchestra, including ''Iperione'', for chamber orchestra (dedicated to

), ''Wen'', for chamber ensemble (mentioned at the

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competition in 1992) and ''L'albero solitario'' (1989), for six percussionists and piano (written for ''I Percussionisti di Genova''). His more recent works include ''Corale figurato'' for two guitars and ''This is the passing of all shining things'' (by

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), for

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and

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. His interest in electronic and computer music dates back to 1983, year in which he follows the seminar organized by the Biennale di Venezia with Alvise Vidolin,

Marco Stroppa Marco Stroppa (born 8 December 1959, in Verona) is an Italian composer who writes computer music as well as music for instruments with live electronics. Biography Marco Stroppa studied piano, composition, choral direction and electronic music at ...

and

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. Interested in computer programming since 1991, he has worked on both PC and Mac platforms developing software using languages such as MAX,

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, Pascal, C and

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. His compositional environment PRIE won the IMEB ''4th International Musical Software Competition'' at Bourges in 1999.

References

Living Composers Project biography
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