Federico Favali

Federico Favali (born 17 June 1981) is an Italian composer of classical music. Biography Born in Pietrasanta, and raised in Lucca, he began composing as a self-taught student. In 2004, he graduated in piano from Istituto superiore di studi musicali “L. Boccherini” of Lucca, and also graduated in DAMS (fine arts) from the University of Bologna with a thesis on the analysis of the first movement of the quartet op.3 by Alban Berg. He studied composition at King’s College London, University of Birmingham (PhD), at the Conservatorio “G. Puccini” of La Spezia, at New York University-Steinhardt School. His music has been performed all over the world (Germany, England, Argentina, Indonesia, Ireland, Australia, South Korea, United States and Japan). Among his various collaborations, the one with the double bass player Gabriele Ragghianti is worth mentioning. In 2014, the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca commissioned the opera The fall of the house of Usher, inspired by the tale of Edgar Allan Poe. It was staged at the Teatro San Girolamo of Lucca on 4 May 2014. In 2015, the Municipality of Lucca awarded him as “Lucca man of the year”. In the same year, he was invited to Daegu International Contem