Donemus Webwinkel — Favali, Federico

Raised in Lucca (Italy), Federico Favali began composing as a self-taught student. In 2004 he graduated in piano at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “L. Boccherini”in Lucca and in 2008 he graduated in DAMS at the University of Bologna. He studied composition at King's College London, at the University of Birmingham (PhD), at the Conservatory of La Spezia, at New York University-Steinhardt and at the Universidad Nacional Tres de Febrero in Buenos Aires (PostDoc). He privately studied conducting with Adrian Slywotsky.

Favali’s music has been performed all over the world (Germany, England, Argentina, Ireland, Indonesia, Australia, South Korea, United States and Japan). Among his various collaborations, the one with the double bass player Gabriele Ragghianti is worth mentioning.

In 2014 the Teatro del Giglio in Lucca commissioned the opera “The Fall of the Usher House”, inspired by the tale of Edgar Allan Poe. It was staged at the Teatro San Girolamo in Lucca on May 4, 2014.

In 2015 Federico Favali was invited to Daegu (South Korea) at the Daegu International Contemporary Music Festival and in 2016 at the CrossCurrents Festival in Birmingham. In 2016 and in 2019 he also participated in the Lucca Classica Festival.

In 2016 he was composer in residence of the Associazione Musicale Lucchese for the winter chamber music season. In June he organized in the Auditorium San Francesco in Lucca the concert "Harmony of the infinite. From San Francesco to the world. Music", dedicated to his music and to the music of the composers from Lucca.

As a musicologist, Favali mainly deals with the musical analysis of contemporary music. His fields of research are the music of György Ligeti, the music of Thomas Adès, the relationships between Jorge Luis Borges' poetics and contemporary music and the relationships between mathematics and music.