Nadir Garofalo was born in Taranto (Italy) in the 1986.
He studied orchestra conducting with Ennio Nicotra, Daniele Belardinelli, Luciano Acocella. He also improved his studies with Donato Renzetti and Riccardo Frizza. In 2014, under the guide of m° Giusi Francavilla, he obtained the diploma in Piano at Istituto A.F.A.M. “G. Paisiello” in Taranto.
On September 2015, he was commissioned by the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina to write two original works (Tempus, Spatium – Bagatelle for Strings - op. 7 ), conducted by m° G.B. Varoli in Florence for the first performance ever.
On the 30th of October 2016, in the city of Taranto, he was invited to inaugurate the new season of the “Tarentum” theatre, with the Orchestra Taras quintet, piano and voices. For the occasion, he composed Communio, an original piece dedicated to his fellow citizens. In 2017, for the commission of Renata Arlotti, one of the most important young Italian guitarist, he wrote Sakura-no Mai (The dance of cherry blooms), a piece for solo guitar which was performed at the 2nd edition of Tehran International Contemporary Music Festival, in Iran and on the Japan tour in 2019, as the first movement of The Japan Suite. On September 2017, he attended – as auditor – the Italian Opera Academy, a two-weeks course at the “D. Alighieri” theatre in Ravenna, held by m° Riccardo Muti on G. Verdi’s Aida. The same year, he worked as conductor for m° Cipriani’s instrumental The night is long, a track of the album Eclectic inside, released by Farelive Records.
On March 2018 he graduated in Orchestra Conducting at Conservatorio “E.R. Duni” in Matera, with m° Daniele Belardinelli. Here he attended the choral composition course held by m° Vito Liturri and the composition analysis course held by m° Michele Maiellari, besides improving his skills with m° Nicola Samale (orchestration, analysis) and m° Aldo Ceccato (conducting symphonic and opera repertoires).
On the 14th of January 2019, he is the first conductor to debut in the renewed municipal theatre in Taranto. For the 75th concert season of Amici della Musica "A. Speranza", he performed Il Risveglio del Fauno, with the première of his string quartet Confidenze di una Musa - op. 2 and of the Interlude dans le soir – d'après l'après-midi d'un faune - op. 14. Recently, he has been the assistant of m° Luciano Acocella during the 31st edition of Rossini in Wildbad festival, for the first performance in modern times of Meyerbeer's Romilda e Costanza.
On the 17th of September he conducted Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino, for a production sponsored by the Bologna Conservatory of Music. He conducted various professional orchestras, such as the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Orchestra di Toscana Classica, Orchestra Filarmonica del Veneto, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Orchestra del Conservatorio “E.R. Duni” di Matera, OSN Mascalucia Etna Phil., Orchestra Senzaspine. As the creator and co-founder of the Orchestra Taras, on May and June 2015 he launched a project to raise the public awareness and to renew the cultural sharing: “La Musica Spiegata” (The explained Music), after its 2nd edition, has collected the enthusiasm and participation of a growing audience.
Since 2015, he has been working as Artistic Director of the Orchestra Taras Musical Association, for which he manages the public relations to the public and private authorities, the artists’ contracts and the legal fulfillments related to the performances. To this day, he has handled over 40 concerts, with the involvement of some of the most talented local young artists, ranging from a polished and even little known classical repertoire to contemporary composers, jazz, blues and rock music. He published a novel (Nel lampo di un incanto, Il Filo editore, Roma, 2007) and wrote some essays: Diritto e Musica. Paradigmi ermeneutici (Law and Music. Hermeneutic paradigms), www.dirittoitaliano.com, Catania, 2012; Intentio auctoris: profili giuridici e musicali di un enigma (Intentio auctoris: juridical and musical profiles of an enigma), Annals of the University of Bari jonic department, Bari, 2014; L'interpretazione musicale. Elementi etici ed estetici (The Music Interpretation. Ethical and Aesthetic elements), 2014; Interlude dans le soir. Una ricognizione del fauno debussyano (Interlude dans le soir. A recognition of Debussy's faun), 2018. The latter has been merged into the introduction to the score Interlude dans le soir – d'après l'après-midi d'un faune - op. 14, released by Da Vinci Publishing; Sulla necessità interpretativa: elementi del circolo ermeneutico musicale in Orfeo tra Biocapitalismo e proprietà intellettuale. Etica ed estetica dell’interpretazione vocale (About the interpretation necessity: elements of the music hermeneutic circle in Orfeo between the Biocapitalism and the Intellectual property. Ethics and Aesthetics of the vocal performance), edited by Lisa La Pietra, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2019. This last one was the subject of a conference at Salone del libro 2019 in Turin where he was invited as lecturer.
He studied orchestra conducting with Ennio Nicotra, Daniele Belardinelli, Luciano Acocella. He also improved his studies with Donato Renzetti and Riccardo Frizza. In 2014, under the guide of m° Giusi Francavilla, he obtained the diploma in Piano at Istituto A.F.A.M. “G. Paisiello” in Taranto.
On September 2015, he was commissioned by the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina to write two original works (Tempus, Spatium – Bagatelle for Strings - op. 7 ), conducted by m° G.B. Varoli in Florence for the first performance ever.
On the 30th of October 2016, in the city of Taranto, he was invited to inaugurate the new season of the “Tarentum” theatre, with the Orchestra Taras quintet, piano and voices. For the occasion, he composed Communio, an original piece dedicated to his fellow citizens. In 2017, for the commission of Renata Arlotti, one of the most important young Italian guitarist, he wrote Sakura-no Mai (The dance of cherry blooms), a piece for solo guitar which was performed at the 2nd edition of Tehran International Contemporary Music Festival, in Iran and on the Japan tour in 2019, as the first movement of The Japan Suite. On September 2017, he attended – as auditor – the Italian Opera Academy, a two-weeks course at the “D. Alighieri” theatre in Ravenna, held by m° Riccardo Muti on G. Verdi’s Aida. The same year, he worked as conductor for m° Cipriani’s instrumental The night is long, a track of the album Eclectic inside, released by Farelive Records.
On March 2018 he graduated in Orchestra Conducting at Conservatorio “E.R. Duni” in Matera, with m° Daniele Belardinelli. Here he attended the choral composition course held by m° Vito Liturri and the composition analysis course held by m° Michele Maiellari, besides improving his skills with m° Nicola Samale (orchestration, analysis) and m° Aldo Ceccato (conducting symphonic and opera repertoires).
On the 14th of January 2019, he is the first conductor to debut in the renewed municipal theatre in Taranto. For the 75th concert season of Amici della Musica "A. Speranza", he performed Il Risveglio del Fauno, with the première of his string quartet Confidenze di una Musa - op. 2 and of the Interlude dans le soir – d'après l'après-midi d'un faune - op. 14. Recently, he has been the assistant of m° Luciano Acocella during the 31st edition of Rossini in Wildbad festival, for the first performance in modern times of Meyerbeer's Romilda e Costanza.
On the 17th of September he conducted Rossini’s Il Signor Bruschino, for a production sponsored by the Bologna Conservatory of Music. He conducted various professional orchestras, such as the Orchestra da Camera Fiorentina, Orchestra di Toscana Classica, Orchestra Filarmonica del Veneto, Orchestra del Teatro Massimo di Palermo, Orchestra del Conservatorio “E.R. Duni” di Matera, OSN Mascalucia Etna Phil., Orchestra Senzaspine. As the creator and co-founder of the Orchestra Taras, on May and June 2015 he launched a project to raise the public awareness and to renew the cultural sharing: “La Musica Spiegata” (The explained Music), after its 2nd edition, has collected the enthusiasm and participation of a growing audience.
Since 2015, he has been working as Artistic Director of the Orchestra Taras Musical Association, for which he manages the public relations to the public and private authorities, the artists’ contracts and the legal fulfillments related to the performances. To this day, he has handled over 40 concerts, with the involvement of some of the most talented local young artists, ranging from a polished and even little known classical repertoire to contemporary composers, jazz, blues and rock music. He published a novel (Nel lampo di un incanto, Il Filo editore, Roma, 2007) and wrote some essays: Diritto e Musica. Paradigmi ermeneutici (Law and Music. Hermeneutic paradigms), www.dirittoitaliano.com, Catania, 2012; Intentio auctoris: profili giuridici e musicali di un enigma (Intentio auctoris: juridical and musical profiles of an enigma), Annals of the University of Bari jonic department, Bari, 2014; L'interpretazione musicale. Elementi etici ed estetici (The Music Interpretation. Ethical and Aesthetic elements), 2014; Interlude dans le soir. Una ricognizione del fauno debussyano (Interlude dans le soir. A recognition of Debussy's faun), 2018. The latter has been merged into the introduction to the score Interlude dans le soir – d'après l'après-midi d'un faune - op. 14, released by Da Vinci Publishing; Sulla necessità interpretativa: elementi del circolo ermeneutico musicale in Orfeo tra Biocapitalismo e proprietà intellettuale. Etica ed estetica dell’interpretazione vocale (About the interpretation necessity: elements of the music hermeneutic circle in Orfeo between the Biocapitalism and the Intellectual property. Ethics and Aesthetics of the vocal performance), edited by Lisa La Pietra, Editoriale Scientifica, Napoli, 2019. This last one was the subject of a conference at Salone del libro 2019 in Turin where he was invited as lecturer.
