Roberto Fabbri (born 1964,

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) is an Italian classical guitarist, composer, teacher and writer.

Biography

He studied classical guitar under the guidance of

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at the Conservatory "Santa Cecilia" in Rome, where he graduated with full honors in 1986. He obtained a bachelor in music with 110 and praise with an essay on

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's ''Rossiniane''. He is the headmaster and teacher of classical guitar at the Academy "Novamusica e Arte" in Rome and also teaches classical guitar at the Institute of High Artistic and Musical Formation "

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Musical career

He has developed his musical career as a soloist and with the guitar quartet ''Nexus''. He has been the

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of ''Festival Internazionale della Chitarra Città di

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'' since 2006. He plays the Ramirez 125° Anniversary 2007 n°1 guitar and uses

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strings.

Publications

Roberto Fabbri has carried out an intense didactic and editorial activity, cooperating with different publishing houses (Anthropos, Berben, Playgame, EMR,

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). His most popular book ''Suoniamo la Chitarra'' has been translated into French, Spanish, and German, and now a Chinese translation is coming up. He contributes monthly to the Italian magazine ''Chitarre'', as the editor of the classical section of the magazine.

Books

*"Suonare Eddie Van Halen" Anthropos 1986 *"Suonare Pat Metheny" Anthropos 1986 *"Antologia di brani famosi" with cd, Playgame *"Metodo per chitarra classica" with cd, Berbén 1998 *"J. S. Bach" with cd, Playgame 1999 *"The greatest romantic themes" with cd, Playgame 2000 *"Suoniamo la chitarra", Carisch 2000 *"Le scale per chitarra" Warner Bros. 2001 * Revisione metodo Ferdinando Carulli op. 27, Carisch 2002 *"Divertiamoci con la chitarra" anthology, Carisch 2002 *" Mario Gangi. Dal classico al... jazz" with cd, Carisch 2002 *"Chitarra" first anthology with cd, Carisch 2003 *"Chitarrista classico autodidatta" with cd, Carisch 2003 *"Suoniamo la chitarra... a colori" Carisch 2003 *"Grande dizionario dei chitarristi" Editori Riuniti (Roma 2003) *"Facciamo le scale" Carisch 2003 *"Guitar Meet Movies" with cd, Carisch 2004 *"Chitarra" second anthology, Carisch 2004 *"Suoniamo la chitarra" second volume, Carisch 2004 *"Guitar Master" Carisch 2006 *"Chitarra terza antologia" with cd, Carisch 2006 *"Fra classico e..." with cd, Carisch 2006 *

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"La storia della chitarra" Carisch 2007 *"Giovanni Allevi for guitar" arrangiamenti per chitarra a cura di Roberto Fabbri, Carisch 2008 *"Suoniamo la Chitarra a Natale" con cd, Carisch 2009 *"Beyond", Carisch 2010 *"No Words", Carisch 2011

Music ensemble anthologies

*"The Pink panther", Carisch (Milano, 2003) *"Summertime", Carisch (Milano, 2003) *"When the saints go marching in", Carisch (Milano, 2003)

Video

*"Lezioni di chitarra classica", Playgame (Cagliari, 1987)

Cd in solo

*"Metodo per chitarra classica", Bèrben (Ancona 1989) *"Antologia di brani famosi" Playgame (Cagliari, 1998) *"J.S.Bach" Playgame (Cagliari, 1999) *"The Greatest Romantic Themes", Playgame (Cagliari, 2000) *"Mario Gangi fra classico e...jazz", Carisch (Milano, 2002) *"Chitarra antologia vol. 1", Carisch (Milano, 2003) *"Chitarrista classico autodidatta" con cd, Carisch (Milano, 2003) *"Guitar Meets Movies", Carisch (Milano, 2004) *"Beyond", EGEA Music (2010) *"No Words", EGEA Music (2011) *"Nei tuoi occhi", Sony Classical (2012)

Cd with guitar quartet Nexus

*"Dal classico al...jazz", Playgame (Cagliari, 2001) *"Concerto Andaluso" di Joaquin Rodrigo, Nexus guitar quartet and Orchestra Sinfonica Provinciale di Bari directed by Leo Brouwer (Sapere 2000 edizioni multimediali, Roma 2004) *"Travel" Margie Group 2007

References

* Benvenuto Terzi, Giacomo Parimbelli, "Dizionario dei chitarristi e liutai italiani" (414 Pagine) Edizioni Villadiseriane (Bergamo) 2008
Roberto Fabbri
biography on ''GuitarArtFestival'' website

External links

Official website

by Jim Skinger for ''guitarcz.com''

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