Italy

Andrea Basevi was born in Genoa, Italy, in 1957. He graduated from the Conservatory of Turin in Choral Music and Chorus Conducting and in Composition with Gilberto Bosco. He continued his studies with Brian Ferneyhough at the Staatlische Hochschüle fur Musik, Freiburg, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. An important stage in his education was a Course in Ethnomusicology with Simha Arom at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena.
After being noticed at the Bucchi Price with a musical fairytale broadcast by RAI, he has twice won the Competition “Play and Music” of the magazine Amadeus and the Vigliano prize.
He is interested in many areas of music: he has composed music for drama for the Repertory Theatres of Genoa and Turin, written film music for the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Rome, and has received special mention from Ennio Morricone in a Chigiana Academy competition.
He has worked extensively on the music / voice relation, producing radio works, songs for children and opera on texts by author Roberto Piumini he has produced books for children on musical instruments and notation.
He has been active in primary education, as director in Genoa of the Choirs in various Primary Schools, Le Piccole Voci of the Alessandria Conservatory and the Biblioteca De Amicis children choir with Roberta Paraninfo and the Laboratory of Paganini.
From 2005 he is Member of A.I.K.E.M., association for music education with the Kodály methodology.
He has composed operas for children : Zazie adapted from Queneau, Pinocchio from Collodi, Peter Pan from Barrie, Alice from Lewis Carroll, and from Piumini’s books: The boy with the violin, The devil’s hair, Omi and Cic, In pocket to Blu, The Brema’s musicians, The Empoli’s circus, The Malafiato, Totò Sapore, The little opera of the light, Foody.
He is President and Artistic Director of Music Association Sant’Ambrogio, which promotes contemporary music in Liguria and projects for children’s Education.
His choral music is published by BMM, Feniarco, Ferrimontana, Rugginenti.
He teaches Harmony and Analysis at the Conservatory Paganini of Genoa.