Roberto Fabbri is a classical guitarist, composer

Composer

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, teacher

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 and writer

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 born in Rome

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, Italy

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 in 1964.

Biography

He studied classical guitar

Classical guitar

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 under the guidance of Carlo Carfagna

Carlo Carfagna

Carlo Carfagna is an Italian classical guitarist, author of many musical publications.His musical education takes place at the Conservatory of Rome and Naples , under the guidance of Mario Gangi , which subsequently will be teaching colleague for many years at Santa Cecilia.-Transcriptions and...

 at the Conservatory of "Santa Cecilia" in Rome, where he graduated with full honors in 1986. He achieved the diploma of bachelor

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 in music with 110 and praise with an essay

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 on Mauro Giuliani

Mauro Giuliani

Mauro Giuseppe Sergio Pantaleo Giuliani was an Italian guitarist, cellist and composer, and is considered by many to be one of the leading guitar virtuosi of the early 19th century.- Biography :...

’s Rossiniane.

He is the headmaster and teacher of classical guitar at the Academy "Novamusica e Arte" in Rome and also teaches classical guitar at the Institute of High Artistic and Musical Formation "Giulio Briccialdi

Giulio Briccialdi

Giulio Briccialdi was an Italian flautist and composer.Briccialdi was born in Terni. His contributions include inventing the B-flat thumb key for the Boehm flute. He died in Florence.- External links :...

" in Terni

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Musical career

He has developed his musical career

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 as a soloist

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 and with the guitar quartet Nexus. He has been the artistic director

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 of Festival Internazionale della Chitarra Città di Fiuggi

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since 2006. He plays the Ramirez 125° Anniversary 2007 n°1 guitar and uses La Bella

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 srtings.

Publications

Roberto Fabbri has carried out an intense didactic and editorial activity, cooperating with different publishing houses (Anthropos, Berben, Playgame, EMR, Warner Bros.

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, Carisch

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His most popular book Suoniamo la Chitarra has been translated in French, Spanish, German and now is coming up the Chinese translation.

He contributes monthly to the Italian magazine Chitarre, as the editor far of the classical section of the magazine

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Books

• "Suonare Eddie Van Halen" Anthropos 1986
• "Suonare Pat Metheny" Anthropos 1986
• "Antologia di brani famosi" with cd, Playgame
• "Metodo per chitarra classica" with cd, Berbén 1998
• "J. S. Bach" with cd, Playgame 1999
• "The greatest romantic themes" with cd, Playgame 2000
• "Suoniamo la chitarra", Carisch 2000
• "Le scale per chitarra" Warner Bros. 2001
• Revisione metodo Ferdinando Carulli op. 27, Carisch 2002
• "Divertiamoci con la chitarra" anhology, Carisch 2002
• "Mario Gangi. Dal classico al... jazz" with cd, Carisch 2002
• "Chitarra" first anthology with cd, Carisch 2003
• "Chitarrista classico autodidatta" with cd, Carisch 2003
• "Suoniamo la chitarra... a colori" Carisch 2003
• "Grande dizionario dei chitarristi" Editori Riuniti (Roma 2003)
• "Facciamo le scale" Carisch 2003
• "Guitar Meet Movies" with cd, Carisch 2004
• "Chitarra" second anthology, Carisch 2004
• "Suoniamo la chitarra" second volume, Carisch 2004
• "Guitar Master" Carisch 2006
• "Chitarra terza antologia" with cd, Carisch 2006
• "Fra classico e..." with cd, Carisch 2006
• Carlo Carfagna
  Carlo Carfagna
  Carlo Carfagna is an Italian classical guitarist, author of many musical publications.His musical education takes place at the Conservatory of Rome and Naples , under the guidance of Mario Gangi , which subsequently will be teaching colleague for many years at Santa Cecilia.-Transcriptions and...
  
  /Roberto Fabbri/Michele Greci "La storia della chitarra" Carisch 2007
• "Giovanni Allevi for guitar" arrangiamenti per chitarra a cura di Roberto Fabbri, Carisch 2008
• "Suoniamo la Chitarra a Natale" con cd, Carisch 2009
• "Beyond", Carisch 2010

Music ensemble anthologies

• "The Pink panther", Carisch (Milano, 2003)
• "Summertime", Carisch (Milano, 2003)
• "When the saints go marching in", Carisch (Milano, 2003)

Cd in solo

• "Metodo per chitarra classica", Bèrben (Ancona 1989)
• "Antologia di brani famosi" Playgame (Cagliari, 1998)
• "J.S.Bach" Playgame (Cagliari, 1999)
• "The Greatest Romantic Themes", Playgame (Cagliari, 2000)
• "Mario Gangi fra classico e...jazz", Carisch (Milano, 2002)
• "Chitarra antologia vol. 1", Carisch (Milano, 2003)
• "Chitarrista classico autodidatta" con cd, Carisch (Milano, 2003)
• "Guitar Meets Movies", Carisch (Milano, 2004)
• "Beyond", EGEA Music (2010)

Cd with guitar quartet Nexus

• "Dal classico al...jazz", Playgame (Cagliari, 2001)
• "Concerto Andaluso" di Joaquin Rodrigo, Nexus guitar quartet and Orchestra Sinfonica Provinciale di Bari directed by Leo Brouwer (Sapere 2000 edizioni multimediali, Roma 2004)
• "Travel" Margie Group 2007

External links

• Official website
• "Brno XVII International Guitar Festival 2008" by Jim Skinger for guitarcz.com
• Festival "M. Giuliani" website