Marco De Biasi

Musician, composer, and painter Marco De Biasi was born in 1977. He owes his musical education to maestros Stefano Viola and Paolo Pegoraro. He graduated in 1999 with top scores. In September 2000 he was forced to retire from giving concerts as a result of a neurophysiological disease called focal dystonia. Fortunately, between 2002 and 2003, after fourteen months of a motor rehabilitation program at the Institute of Physiology and Medicine of Art in Terrasa (BCN), he completly recovered. He continues to collaborate with this institute (www.institutart.com - www.fcart.org/distonia/).

In the years of concert inactivity he started to study musical composition, combined with pictorial research. Starting from Kandinsky’s theories and Klee’s writings, he created a phono-chromatic system, based on the relationship between sound and color. Many of his works are composed by the union of his paintings and his compositions. In 2007 he published his first album Fonocromie, featuring pieces written between 2004 and 2007 that have a recurring theme of the close relationship between sound vibration and the chromatic one.

In 2010, together with the painter Max Ciogli, he cofounded SINE, an art movement of synaesthetic synthesis, whose main goal is the investigation of the relationship between sound, color, and movement. In 2012 they published the artistic manifesto. After the foundation of this group, their research has also been used in therapy. In fact, through the National Deaf Institute in Rome, the artistic experiences of the group are merged to create a system that would allow deaf people to relate to the musical sound experience.

A part of his studies and works can be seen and consulted on his website, www.marcodebiasi.info.

As a musician he achieved several awards at many national and international competitions:

• 2^nd Prize at “Concorso Nazionale Città di Asti” (1991);
• 1^st Prize at “Concorso Giovani Talenti di Azzano X” (1997);
• 1^st Prize at “Concorso Internazionale Città di Varenna” (1999);
• 1^st Prize at “Concorso Nazionale Città di Ortona” (2004);
• 1^st Prize at “Concorso Internazionale Rospigliosi” (2005);
• 1^st Prize at “Concorso Nazionale di Castelfidardo” (2005);
• 1^st Prize at “Concorso Nazionale città di Seveso” (2005);
• 2^nd Prize at “Concorso Nazionale città di Parma” (2006);
• 1^st Prize at “Concorso Internazionale Kitarika - Capodistria” (2006);
• 1^st Prize at the Competition “Lilian Caraian per la musica - Trieste” (2007);
• 1^st Prize at “Concorso Internazionale Città di Gorizia” (2007).

As a composer and painter he obtained the following awards:

• Special Mention at the International Competition “Brescia chitarra contemporanea 2008” with the work: Trittico
• 3^rd Prize at the International Competition of classic guitar composition “Claxica 2010” with the work: Suite
• 2^nd Prize at “9° Concorso Internazionale di composizione per chitarra M. Pittaluga di Alessandria” with the phonochromatic work: Quintetto n°1 Omaggio a Kandinsky op.4 (2010);
• 1^st Prize at the International Competition “Pavia Contemporanea” (2010) with the work: Ipercubo op.18
• 1^st Prize at the National Composer Competition “F. Agnello”, First edition (2012), Section of Chamber music, with the phonochromatic work: Omaggio al suonorosso e al quadrato giallo, for string quartet.
• 1^st Prize at the International Competition “Boston Guitarfest Composition Competition” (2013) with the work: Improvvisazioni
• 1st Prize at XXV Concurso De Composición De Guitarra Clásica “Andrés Segovia” (La Herradura-Granada, 2013) with the work: Improvvisazione VI.

In 2011 he won the International Competition GRAFIMUSE for musicians who work in the field of synaesthesia and create visual arts that can be played, with the painting: Musica seriale in fa#.

His compositions are published by Chanterelle Verlag Edition, VP Music Media, Farandola Edizioni, Berben, Sinfonica, Lineadaria Edizioni. His music is played in important festivals of contemporary music such as “Play It” (Italy) and “Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva” (Mexico) and by famous musicians such as: Quartetto di Cremona and Trio Nahual.