MONICA NASTI

Monica Nasti, born in Martina Franca (Ta), graduated in Piano Old Ordinament at the L. D'Annunzio Music Conservatory of Pescara. She later graduated in Music Didactics, Band Instrumentation and Music Composition Old Ordinament at the Piccinni Music Conservatory of Bari and she also obtained here the II Level Academic Diploma in Music Composition with a focus on interpretation and composition, with top marks and honours
She studied Music Composition with Gianluca Baldi and Fabio Cellini and furthered her studies with Ivan Fedele. 
She has been working as a composer for more than 35 years, spanning numerous genres: from music for theatre (prose and shadow music) to music for teaching, from jazz to world music and pop music, writing for various ensembles and formations, from vocal music (choral and solo) to instrumental music (chamber and symphonic).
She published in 2013 the musical operetta THE PRINCE RANOCCHIO in the style of popular music (for narrator, soloists, choir, orchestra and Orff instruments) by the music house ‘Progetti sonori’ of Mercatello sul Metauro (CD+Book).

On commission from the Contemporary Opera Company Op.64-Solocanto- in Milano, in connection with the OperaLab project, in 2022 she wrote the music for the contemporary opera DUE SORELLE IN TRENO E UN DIABOLIK IN TASCA by Mondadori writer Daniela Morelli, for children's choir, vocal quintet and orchestra (performed in June 2022 in Milano at the Teatro Carcano, directed by Fred Santambrogio and with sets by Riccardo Sgaramella) and  in 2024 she wrote the music for the contemporary opera L'ARTE DI ASCOLTARE I BATTITI DEL CUORE from the novel by Jan-Philipp Sendker, published in Germany by Karl Blessing Verlag, which is a fusion of theatre, music and dance, for 2 mezzo-sopranos, countertenor and 2 baritones, youth choir, 2 cellos, piano and tablas (played by Sandeep Das), directed by Fred Santambrogio.  Opera premiered in Milano at the Teatro Elfo Puccini in June 2024. . 

 In the autumn of 2023 her chamber composition Dream of peace-A Music Hug (trio for Flute, Cello and Piano), published by Sonitus edizioni, together with her arrangement of Nino Rota's Speak Softly, Love for 8 cellos ensemble, are performed at the Zurich University of the Arts (ZHdK) in Toni-Areal
  
She is currently a member of the list of composers of Multimedia San Paolo music and record editions, Carrara (Bergamo), Sonitus (Monvalle-VA), Feniarco, Arcopu, Agenda (Bologna), Progetti sonori (Mercatello sul Metauro, PU), Federcori-Chorus Inside, Digressione music (Molfetta-BA)

She has been a permanent teacher for 25 years of the Chair of Theory, Rhythmics and Ear Training at the N. Rota Conservatory in Monopoli (BA).