Federico Gardella
Italian Composer. Federico Gardella studied the piano with Piero Rattalino and Riccardo Risaliti at the Milan Conservatory where he graduated with distinction and then furthered his studies with Klaus Hellwig at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. He studied composition at the Milan Conservatory with Sonia Bo and then took advanced courses with Azio Corghi at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena and with Alessandro Solbiati at the Corsi di Perfezionamento in Sermoneta and in the Milan Conservatory, where he graduated summa cum laude. Moreover, his acquaintance with Brian Ferneyhough and Toshio Hosokawa has been of significant importance to his artistic development. He has been composer in residence at the Divertimento Ensemble and the Fondation Royaumont. He teaches composition at the Conservatory of Monopoli and was Assistant Faculty at the Takefu International Composition Workshop in Japan. Since 2016 he is one of the artistic advisors of the Fondazione Campus Internazionale di Musica of Latina. His music is published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni-SugarMusic S.p.A. in Milan. His music has featured in many important festivals and concert seasons and he has won prizes in various international composition competitions including the Tansman International Competition of Musical Personalities in Łódź, the Toru Takemitsu Composition Award in Tokyo and in 2014 he was assigned the Special Prize Una Vita nella Musica” at the Teatro La Fenice di Venezia.