Massimo Di Gesu

He studied composition with Bruno Bettinelli,[1][2] and piano with Jole Mantegazza and Anita Porrini, one of Cortot's and Benedetti Michelangeli's pupils.

[4] His approach to composition (alien to fashionable currents,[5] and based on a distinctly atonal harmonic idiom[4]) focuses on the symbols hidden in the syntax of sounds.

[6][7] His language is characterised by the search for a perceptible attraction, according to what he himself refers to as the "principle of necessity",[8] linking the elements of the musical narrative[3][5] as an ineludible condition of its vitality, i.e.

In 2014 the Teatro La Fenice (Venice) commissioned from him "Luci d'estate" which was premiered by the Ex Novo Ensemble in July of the same year.

[23] Computer-based drawings of his appear on the cover of the CD “PianOLYPHONY”[16] recorded by Peter Bradley-Fulgoni (Foxglove Audio - FOX091), and in the score of “Geometria di un diletto” (edition db).