About

Fabrizio Nastari is an Italian composer whose work revolves around the use of irony as a central artistic and rhetorical device. He completed his PhD research, Borrowing Existing Material, and Irony: Compositional Strategies and their Context, at the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, where he also designed the course Composing with 14th-Century Technique. His research and compositions often explore the absurdity of modern life and the complexity of human nature, using a wide range of techniques to juxtapose or integrate contrasting musical textures.

Nastari’s creative process is deeply collaborative. He frequently works closely with the musicians and ensembles he composes for. His music has been performed by prestigious groups such as the Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir, Mivos Quartet, L’Arsenale Ensemble, and BlowUp! Percussion. His works have been showcased at renowned festivals, including Nuova Consonanza, Estonian Music Days, Ravenna Festival, Festival Pontino and others.

He studied Classical Guitar and Piano and graduated from the Conservatorio Ottorino Respighi in Composition and Choral Conducting. In 2017, he moved to Tallinn, completing his Master’s degree in Classical Composition under the guidance of Toivo Tulev and Helena Tulve. He has also participated in masterclasses and workshops with leading contemporary composers such as Helmut Lachenmann, Julia Wolfe, Rebecca Saunders, and Ivan Fedele.

In addition to his compositional and academic endeavours, Nastari is an active researcher, publishing articles and presenting his work at international conferences. Since 2019, he has served as a production assistant for the highSCORE Festival, and since 2023, he has been affiliated with Nuova Consonanza. In 2024-2025 he collaborates as a composer and arranger for the Italian Army Wind Band.

He teaches composition in Conservatorio “Luigi Canepa” in Sassari.

Fabrizio Nastari

Audio

9 13 18 24

Caligola – Scena IV

Dies Rainbow

Disperata Vitalità

Echi D’Ombra​

Electric Breath

Video

The True, the Fake and the False

ÉPOS – Trailer

Ricordo Rumore

Nostra Ignuda Natura – Trailer

Works

  • A Singer without Words (2025, 8′)

    for soprano, flute, oboe, clarinet, accordion, piano, percussion, violin, cello

  • Sonatina to go n. 2 (2024, 5′)

    for two accordion

  • épos (2022-2023, 30′)

    for percussion ensemble

  • Drowning to breathe (2019, 11′)

    1111, 1110, 1, piano, strings

  • Gingerbread (2023, 4′)

    for 2 clarinets

  • Elogio del Tormento (2023, 4′)

    for 2 baroque violin, viola da gamba and tiorba

  • Elogio della Caduta (2023, 10′)

    for violin and accordion

  • Fora e Cuce (2022, 2′)

    for sax duo

  • The True, the Fake and the False (2020-2021, 34′)

    for guitar (electric and classic) flute (bass and soprano) electronics and other instruments

  • Working and Singing (2020, 8′)

    for alto flute, 2 bass clarinet, violin, viola, cello

  • Disperata Vitalità (2020, 10′)

    for violin, cello and piano

  • Rovine (2019, 9′)

    string quartet

  • Unforeseen Consequences (2018-2019, 12′)

    soprano, sax (alto, tenor), electric guitar, accordion, piano

  • N’ombra che se crea (2019, 8′)

    wind quintet

  • Echi d’ombra (2016-2017, 16’)

    string quartet

  • Electric Breath (2016, 5’)

    electric guitar, bass flute

  • D’inverno (2025, 12′)

    choir and string orchestra

  • Protocollo (2021, 16′)

    flute, clarinet, bassoon, 2 horns, 3 violins, 3 viola, 2 cello, 2 doublebass

  • Spring (2021, 8′)

    for strings and percussions

  • Drowning to breathe (2019, 11′)

    1111, 1110, 1, piano, strings

  • Nascita del canto (2018, 8′)

    baritone 1111, 1110, 2, accordion, harp, piano, strings; text by Giosuè Carducci, “Nascita del canto”

  • The Will of Ripping (2018, 10’)

    1111, 1110, 1, piano, strings

  • Nostra Ignuda Natura (2021-2022, 35′)

    for mixed choir; text by Giacomo Leopardi

  • Hommik (2019, 5’)

    SATB, latin text “Ave Maris stella”; estonian text by Johannes Schmuul, “Kuidas kalamehed elavad – Hommik”

  • A dream within a dream (2018, 8’)

    SSAATTBB; text by Edgar Allan Poe, “A dream within a dream”

  • Poiché del mio dolore (2016, 5’)

    SATB, text by Claudio Monteverdi, “Poiché del mio dolore”

  • A Student’s Tale (2023-2024, 42’)

    opera for soprano, sax, accordion, electric guitar and piano.

  • Inferno. Chiamata Pubblica per la “Divina Commedia” di Dante Alighieri (2017, 180’)

    • Prliio Ubu 2017
    • trumpet, percussion, fixed media and live electronic
    • composed by Luigi Ceccarelli with Fabrizio Nastari, Andrea Veneri, Giovanni Tancredi, Altilio
    • Francesco, Mirjana Nardelli, Cristian Maddalena
    • review Rai Tg3: link 1, link 2
    • review Rai Radio 3: link 1, link 2
    • review and excerpt by Amadeus
    • Press
    • Gallery
  • Caligola (2016, 30’)

    • scena IV (8′)
    • soprano, clarinet, percussion, fixed media; text by Albert Camus, “Caligola”
  • La Sinfonia delle Cose (2023, 10′)

    wind orchestra

  • Lullaby of War (2020, 10′)

    2222, 2221, 3 percussionist, strings

  • Là su (2018, 23’)

    baritone 2222, 2200, 1 percussionist, accordion, strings; text by Ludovico Ariosto, “L’Orlando Furioso”

  • L’indugio del profumo (2017, 12’)

    soprano 1111, 1110, 2 percussionist, piano, strings; text by Giosuè Carducci, “Fuori alla Certosa di Bologna”

  • Pothole (2015, 11’)

    for symphonic orchestra

  • New Work (2025, 3′)

    braguinha

  • Ricordo Rumore (2024, 4′)

    clarinet

  • Elogio dell’insicurezza (2023, 5′)

    violin

  • Elogio del vuoto (2023, 4′)

    chitarra battente

  • Elogio dell’errore (2022, 9′)

    clarinet

  • Sonatina to go (2021, 4′)

    guitar

  • Disperata Vitalità (2021, 5′)

    ukulele

  • TaranToten (2021, 5′)

    chitarra battente

  • Pappagalli Verdi (2021, 4′)

    ukulele

  • Disperata Vitalità (2020, 4′)

    piano

  • Dies Rainbow (2020, 3′)

    ukulele

  • 9 13 18 24  (2020, 9′)

    accordion

  • Studio riflessi (2019, 4′)

    classic guita

  • Second Imagining (2017, 5’)

    piano

  • Disperata Vitalità (2015, 10’)

    violin

  • Dry Land (2020)

    Director: Maria Reinup Script: Larissa Curi

  • The hide (2019, endless)

    supervisor Giovanni Albini. With Martin Kirsiste, Lev Urbel, Natalia Wójcik, Valentin Siltsenko and Paul Klooren

  • Steps (2018, 9’)

    Artwork by Marco Angelini, filmed and edited by Luca Rossi

Research

Category:Article

10/2025

Article: Musica Contemporanea per Strumenti Storici: una Collaborazione Artistica. Atti del convegno ANDA Annual Conference 2025.

Category:Article

08/2020

Spiritual perspective of Music Ecology. The coexisting of different cultures and their relation to nature: Ironical spirituality in Hommik by Fabrizio Nastari. UNM Zine. Tampere (FI).

Category:Conference

05/2025

Composizione e Ricerca: strutturare l’atto compositivo. DARE – Seconda Edizione. Conservatorio “Santa Cecilia” di Roma, Roma (IT).

Category:Conference

01/2025

Borrowing e Co-creazione Musicale: una Metodologia tra Autoetnografia e Teoria dell’Informazione. III Convegno Annuale Fondazione Levi, Venezia (IT).

Category:Conference

09/2024

Musica Contemporanea per Strumenti Storici: una Collaborazione Artistica. ANDA Annual Conference 2024, Naples (IT).

Category:Conference

05/2024

The Influence of Period Instruments on Composer Aesthetics. Orpheus Doctoral Conference 2024. Ghent (B).

Category:Conference

09/2023

Ukulele as a Toy… for Composers. Second Ukulele International Conference (UIC 2023) – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Performance, Composition, and Organology, Alessandria (IT).

Category:Conference

10/2022

New Music and Old Instruments: the Collaboration behind “Elogio dell’Errore” for solo Clarinet. Co-author Vittoria Ecclesia. ICA – International Clarinet Association. Online.

Category:Conference

06/2022

Irony as Element in the Practice of Composing. 15th International Congress on Musical Signification, Barcellona (ES).

Category:Conference

12/2021

Inside the Ukulele: Approaches and Solutions in Classical Contemporary Compositions. First Ukulele International Conference (UIC 2021) – Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Performance, Composition, and Organology, Milano (IT).

Category:Conference

02/2019

Musical Stylometry as a means of composing new music for classical guitar. The International Guitar Symposium, Dublin (IRL).

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