Simone Santi Gubini was born in 1980, is a composer and Italian music theorist. He studied piano and composition with Valentino Di Bella, acoustics and electronic music with composer Giorgio Nottoli and phonetics along with musical theory at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. He continued his studies, deeping his knowledge of the ancient forms of Byzantine music and the 15th century technique of Vocal Counterpoint.

Santi Gubini’s music has been played in various international musical concert series including: The Art of Sound, Computer Music, Nuove Tracce tra Composizione e Improvvisazione (New Connections between Composition and Improvisation), Il suono dei soli (The Sound of Solos), Curva minore, at the theatre, Massimo in Palermo, Deutsche Akademie, Nuova Consonanza, Goethe-Institut, Académie de France and many others. He has regularly collaborated with the acclaimed pianist Maria Flavia Cerrato who, for the first time in Italy in December 2009, performed one of Santi Gubini’s most significant compositions for piano, ‘OBJET DES MOTS’. The work was premiered at the theatre, Furio Camillo in Rome.

In 2010, Santi Gubini completed an extensive ensemble composition (ALS OBEN) for woodwind, percussions and voices which had been commissioned by the Vatican Board of Umnio Apostolatus Catholici. On October 26th, 2011 the Orchestra sinfonica Roma Sinfonietta, conducted by Patrizio Esposito, performed the world premier of ‘ALS OBEN’, at the Auditorium Ennio Morricone at the University of Rome, Tor Vergata. The work was greatly appreciated and is to be performed again on the 25th of March, 2012 at the noted Auditorium, Parco della Musica, Sala Sinopoli in Rome. Simone Santi Gubini’s music is characterized by two distinct qualities: the absence of all traditional and historical musical techniques and theories, which can be clearly perceived both in live performance as well as by analyzing the musical score itself. Secondly, the artist’s creative expression is directly relevant to the musical material at hand. As an arduous researcher, Santi Gubini has developed an innovative system for composition that regulates both intervals and rhythms. The system in known as ‘Composizione a Parti Uguali’ (2011) and is soon to be published. The musical works of Simone Santi Gubini are published in the editions of La CAMERA VERDE, Rome. www.simonesantigubini.com