Composers

He is graduated in Experimental Composition at Cagliari with Franco Oppo and studied Electronic Music at Venice with Alvise Vidolin.
He has collaborated with and written compositions for individual artists and groups including: Irvine Arditti (Sottili di luce); Carin Levine (Morbide auree dell'aria for solo flute); Oscar Pizzo (L'ottavo Cielo for piano and orchestra, Le Rovine for piano and live computer); Kirk Brundage (Khroai for one percussionist); Marco Rogliano (Sospinti oltre); Isabelle Soccoja (Hai un sangue, un respiro II); Astorre Ferrari (Suoni che vengono da uomini); Arditti Trio (Sospinti oltre le mura); Vittorio Parisi (L'ottavo Cielo); Massimo De Bernart (Pyknon); Ensemble Belcanto (Come un'ombra di luna); Ensemble Spaziomusica; Icarus Ensemble; Ensemble Esperimento (Naer het leven); IGNM-Vokalsolisten (Di salmastro e di terra); Orchestra Sinfonica and Sinfonietta of Cagliari Opera House; Orchestra Guido Cantelli (Come attraversare gli intervalli dell'aria).

Fabrizio Casti is president of the Associazione Spazio-musica-Ricerca and vice president of the Spaziomusica International Festival for promoting and diffusing contemporary music.
In 1992 and in 1994 he was invited to participate in the Komponisten-forum during the International Summer Courses of New Music at Darmstadt where he presented, in world première, Le Rovine for piano and live computer with soloist Oscar Pizzo, Sottili di luce for solo violin with Irvine Arditti and Khroai for one percussionist with Kirk Brundage.

His compositions, published by Ricordi and by Steinäuser Verlag and recorded on CD by Nuova Fonit-Cetra and by Spaziomusica, have been performed at national and international festivals and other events in Europe, Japan and America and broadcast by radio networks both in Italy and abroad.
Casti teaches Elements of Music Composition at the State Conservatory of Music of Cagliari.