Daniele Del Monaco

Composer and keyboard player based in Rome, born in 1977.
He is author of chamber music, symphonic music, operas, music for theatre, electronics, electro-acoustic, multimedia operas, music for films, song, interactive installations. He’s also an interpreter, improviser, teacher, music producer, band-leader and organizer. He works with artistic directors, institutions, ensembles, authors and interpreters from all over the world.
His music was performed in international festivals, radio and tv broadcasted, published, and it is known in academic and extra-academic contexts.
In 2007 he started the activity of indipendent producer, thanks to the collaboration with classical musicians, improviser and experimental artists.
The most representative works are: Guernica, 2007; Simurgh, 2007 (with Flavio Albanese); Prove di fuga dalla terra, 2008 (with Salvo Piro); Psicosusina Turboaccelerata 2013; Caligola, 2014 (with Vania Castelfranchi); The Zone, 2014 (with Blixa Bargeld and Theodosii Spassov). For most of them he wrote also the libretto.
He collaborated with artist like Flavio Albanese, Alea Nova, Marco Ariano, Tom Arthurs, Blixa Bargeld, Roberto Bellatalla, Ljuba Bergamelli, Andrea Biagioli, Gustavo Brinholi, Matteo Capogna, Marco Cappelli, Vania Castelfranchi, Anna Clementi, Gabriele Coen, Massimo Coen, Stefano Cogolo, Eugenio Colombo, Vocalia Consort, Bert Cornelis, Francesco Cusa, Errico De Fabritiis, Rocco De Rose, Zeno De Rossi, Barbara Di Lieto, Diaspora, Ken Filiano, Avrham Fever, FACha Quartet, Freon, Oliviero Giorgiutti, Giovanni Guaccero, Maura Guerrera, Yotam Haber, Quartetto Harmos , Roberto Herlitzka, Incanto, Nicholas Isherwood, Pape Kanoute, JT Lewis, Armando Lôbo , Fabio Maestri, Mark Malkovitch, Paolo Marchettini, Sabina Mayer, Sylvia Maynger, Luca Mereu, Giona Messina, Josè Mobilia, Claudio Montuori, Sandro Naglia, Sena Ndiaye, Alipio Neto, Nublast, Økapi, Benny Penazzi, Salvo Piro, Marc Ribot, Raiz,Pierpaolo Ranieri,Ready Made Ensemble, Susanna Rigacci, Adam Rudolph, Gianluca Ruggeri, Sandro Satta, Alessandro Sbordoni, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Francesco Snoriguzzi, Theodosii Spassov, SPMT, Tabala, Satoshi Takeishi, Stomu Takeishi, Gianfranco Tedeschi, Pamela Toscano, Fay Victor, VoxNova, Aldo Vio, Stefano Zorzanello, etc.
He is author of dramaturgy, poetry, small essays, critical articles, polemic articles, satirical articles and several thoughts.
He is member of Nuova Consonanza and of the international collective Diaspora. He is artistic and musical director of LCP.
He loves spearfishing.