Marco De Biasi

He was born in Vittorio Veneto in 1977. He started stuying guitar at the age of ten under the guidance of Stefano Viola.
He graduated in 1999, at Conservatorio di Fermo (Academy of Music) as a private student. He got the maximun score. He attended a specialisation course at the Accademia di Interpretazione Chitarristica "F. Tàrrega" in Pordenone with the teachers Stefano Viola and Paolo Pegoraro.
He continued the studying of guitar and attending masterclasses given by David Russel, Manuel Barrueco, Oscar Ghiglia,  Alberto Ponce.
In 1991 he won the “National  Competition Città di Asti” and in 1997 the “Young Talent Competition of Azzano X”. In 1999 he won the “International Competition Città di Varenna”.
In September 2000 he was forced to retire from giving concerts as a result of a neurophysiological disease called focal dystonia. Fortunately, from 2002 to 2003, he carried out a motor rehabilitation programme at the Institute of Physiology and Medicine of Art in Barcelona which brougth about his complete recovery. Now he collaborates with this institute.
In  2004 he retook his concertistic activity and the same year he won the “National Competition Città di Ortona”. In 2005 he won the “International Competition Rospigliosi di Pistoia”, the “ National Castelfidardo Competition” in Ancona and the “National Competition Città di Seveso” in Milan. In 2006 he won the “ National Competition Città di Parma” and the “International Guitar Competition Kitarika” of Capodistria, the 2007 the XXI Competition “Lilian Caraian” fo the music in Trieste.
Regularly he has tours in Mexico and he plays in the most important international festivals of Italy as the International Festival in Friuli Venezia Giulia, the International Festival M. Castelnuovo Tedesco in Treviso and the International Festival N. Paganini in Parma.
He has recorded for the radio of some Mexican states and also for RAI DUE and some private radios.
In the years of concertistic inactivity he started studying composition under the guidance of  Renato Gava. Starting from Kandinsky's theories and Klee's writings, he has created a phono-chromatic system, based on the relationship between sound and color, that foresee the association of pictorial and musical elements.
At the moment he is working on the phonographic recording of his composition “EIRES, Theme and variations for three guitars”. Recently, the VP Music Media published his “Quattro Omaggi” for solo guitar. His compositions are played in the most important international guitar festivals obtaining immediately the approval of critics and the public.
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