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Damiano Mercuri guitar composer

Biography

Damiano Mercuri

Born in Rome in 1977, he graduated in guitar with top marks and honors with Carlo Carfagna and in music teaching at the S. Cecilia conservatory in Rome.
He also studied flamenco guitar with Juan Lorenzo, jazz guitar with Fabio Zeppetella and mandolin with Luca Mereu.
He followed a seminar on composition for film music with Luciano Michelini and studies composition with Paquale Lucia.
As a classical guitarist he performs as a soloist, in chamber ensembles and with orchestras, giving recitals in Italy, Bulgaria, Poland and Lithuania.
In 2022 he won the second international prize "Città di Stresa" with the composition for solo guitar "Marionette". His music is published by Carish and Sinfonica. His compositions are digitally distributed by MusicaNeo.
In 2011 he founded the "Youth Guitar Orchestra of Rome" where he is director/mandolin player, winning numerous awards and giving numerous performances.
He has recorded a CD of Renaissance and Baroque music for the Israeli label “The Eastern Front”; for the Oratory of S. Filippo Neri he recorded a live CD with Vivaldi's RV93 and RV 425 concerts as both guitarist and mandolinist; together with other Roman guitarists he participated in the monographic CD dedicated to C. Carfagna for the Margy Group label.
Furthermore he is a singer-songwriter and founder of the neo-folk music project "Rose Ruins and Lovers", performing throughout almost all of Europe and producing numerous CDs for the English label Cold Spring Records.
He is a guitar teacher at the Toscanini state music secondary school in Rome.
He collaborates with the Civica Scuola della Arti as a teacher for the pre-academic courses affiliated with the L. Refice conservatory of Latina.