Asymmetric Thought: Italian Music For Guitar And Electronics (2CD+DVD) – Davide Ficco

Davide Ficco was born in Turin in 1962. He received a diploma with honors in 1982 at the Conservatory of Alessandria with Guido Margaria, and pursued advanced studies with John Williams, José Tomàs, Betho Davezac, Jakob Lindberg, Oscar Ghiglia and Alain Meunier, obtaining, thanks to the latter, a grant from the CEE and two merit diplomas from the Chigiana Accademia of Siena, where he studied between 1982 and 1985. Later he studied electronic music and music pedagogy at the Conservatory of Turin. In 1989 he was awarded the title of Guitar Performer by the Royal College of Music in London. He won several prizes at national and international competitions both as soloist and in chamber groups (1978-83). Davide Ficco has collaborated with the Contemporary Music Group and the Symphonic Orchestras of the R.A.I. of Turin (1982-2011) and Milan (1990-1993), with the Teatro Regio of Turin, the Laboratorio Lirico of Alessandria, the Orchestra Sinfonica Italiana and the Filarmonica ‘900. He performs primarily modern and contemporary music and has made radio and television recordings for the R.A.I. including many world premiere performances. He has recorded for the labels Naxos, Tactus, Amadeus, Stradivarius, GuitArt and Oliphant mainly with music of the twentieth century. As a composer he has written music primarily for guitar, in part published by Gendai Guitar in Tokyo and Carisch (Milan).