Born: January 4, 1957 - Genoa, ItalyThe Italian tenor, composer and music pedagogue, Andrea Basevi, began studying with Mario Moretti, then graduated from the Conservatory of Turin in Choral Music and Chorus Conducting with Don Virgilio Bellone, and in Composition with Gilberto Bosco. He continued his studies with Brian Ferneyhough at the Staatlische Hochschüle fur Musik in Freiburg, and with Luciano Berio in Florence. An important stage in his education was a Course in Ethnomusicology with Simha Arom at the Accademia Chigiana, Siena. After being noticed at the 1989 Bucchi Prize with a musical fairytale broadcast by RAI, he has twice won the Competition “Play and Music” of the magazine Amadeus.