Roberto Fabbri (born 1964, Rome) is an Italian classical guitarist, composer, teacher and writer.
Roberto Fabbri (born 1964, Rome) is an Italian classical guitarist, composer, teacher and writer.
He studied classical guitar under the guidance of Carlo Carfagna 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 Mauro Giuliani'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 "Giulio Briccialdi" in Terni.
He has developed his musical career as a soloist and with the guitar quartet Nexus. He has been the artistic director of Festival Internazionale della Chitarra Città di Fiuggi since 2006. He plays the Ramirez 125° Anniversary 2007 n°1 guitar and uses La Bella strings.
Roberto Fabbri has carried out an intense didactic and editorial activity, cooperating with different publishing houses (Anthropos, Berben, Playgame, EMR, Warner Bros., Carisch). 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.
Miguel Llobet Solés was a classical guitarist, born in Barcelona, Spain. Llobet was a renowned virtuoso who toured Europe and America extensively. He made well known arrangements of Catalan folk songs for the solo guitar, made famous arrangements for the guitar of the piano compositions of Isaac Albéniz, arrangements immortalized by Andrés Segovia, and was also the composer of original works.
Angelo Gilardino was an Italian composer, guitarist, and musicologist.
Premiata Forneria Marconi (PFM) is an Italian progressive rock band founded in 1970 which continues to the present day. They were the first Italian group to have success internationally. The group recorded five albums with English lyrics between 1973 and 1977. During this period they entered both the British and American charts. They also had several successful European and American tours, playing at the popular Reading Festival in England and on The Midnight Special, a popular national television program in the United States.
Roberto Regazzi is a notable contemporary violin maker and scholar who received his initiation in the craft from Otello Bignami. Regazzi lives and works in Bologna.
Stefano Grondona is an Italian classical guitarist. In 2002, he formed the guitar ensemble Nova Lira Orfeo XXI, which was based on Lira Orfeo, a Barcelona music society of which Miguel Llobet was the founder and director.
The following is a bibliography of classical guitar related publications.
Carlo Carfagna is an Italian classical guitarist, author of many musical publications. His musical education took place at the Conservatory of Rome and Naples, under the guidance of Mario Gangi, and was subsequently a teaching colleague for many years at Santa Cecilia.
Giovanni Allevi is an Italian pianist and composer. His song "O Generosa" is the current theme tune of the top flight of Italian football, Serie A.
Giulio Castagnoli is an Italian composer.
Antonio Buonomo is an Italian composer, solo percussionist and music educator.
Professor of percussion at the conservatories of "S.Pietro a Majella in Naples" of Naples and "S.Cecilia" of Rome, Antonio Buonomo's professional experience includes performing as timpani soloist in various orchestras and director of one of Europe's first all-percussion instrument groups.
His many compositions and transcriptions for percussion instruments have been published by the main houses of this sector and include teaching materials as well as music for plays and television documentaries. They have been performed for the occasion of prestigious avant-garde musical events, television and radio programs as well as in public concerts.
Flavio Sala is an Italian classical guitar player.
Stradivarius Records, Italian Casa Discografica Stradivarius is a Milan based independent Italian record label specializing in early music and contemporary classical music. The record label was originally based from a shop in the Via Stradivari, but the shop is now located in the Via Sormani, Cologno Monzese. The label has collaborated with the Milan Conservatory in production of its recordings.
Pino Rucher was an Italian guitarist active in orchestral settings and in film soundtracks.
Roberto Murolo was an Italian musician.
Francesco Morone known as Franco Morone, is an Italian guitar player, teacher, composer and arranger specializing in the fingerstyle technique. He is the author of several books and has recorded CDs and videos playing his original music, which combines traditional Italian and Celtic melodies with jazz, blues and folk influences. He currently performs and teaches across Europe, the United States, and Japan.
Alessio Bidoli is an Italian violinist.
Italo Meschi was a harp guitarist from Lucca, Italy.
Tullio Bassi is an Italian violin maker. He made instruments for members of a number of renowned orchestras. He studies and follows the techniques of the renowned luthier, Antonio Stradivari.
Matteo Mancuso is an Italian jazz and rock guitarist and composer from Palermo, Sicily. Mancuso is known for adapting a quasi-flamenco/classical right-hand technique to the electric guitar and improvised solos without the use of a pick. Steve Vai, Al Di Meola, Joe Bonamassa and others have publicly praised him, with Vai calling him "the future" of electric guitar.
Gian Marco Ciampa is an Italian classical and electric guitarist.
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