Edoardo Dadone

Born in Cuneo in 1992, Edoardo Dadone is a guitarist and composer. He began studying guitar with Stefano Viada at the age of eight and graduated with honours from the Giorgio Federico Ghedini Conservatory in Cuneo in 2010. He subsequently continued his studies with Luigi Biscaldi. His recording work includes releases for the magazine Seicorde, Antonio Giacometti’s complete solo guitar music for Da Vinci Classics, and a contribution to Parade, devoted to the guitar works of Giorgio Colombo Taccani. He has performed in duo with Christian Saggese, Andrea Monarda and Giovanni Martinelli, and is the dedicatee of works by Angelo Gilardino and Taccani.

Dadone graduated with honours in composition in 2017 under Giorgio Planesio at the Cuneo Conservatory, subsequently studying with Taccani. He also attended composition courses with Stefano Gervasoni, Francesco Filidei and Fabien Lévy. His distinctions include the GAM competition in Milan, the Appassionato Ensemble competition in Como, the Valentino Bucchi Award and the EstOvest Festival competition. His music has been performed by Divertimento Ensemble, Quartetto Nous, New Xenia Ensemble and other contemporary music interpreters. As Divertimento Ensemble’s composer in residence in 2021, he developed the project released by Stradivarius as Sine Sole Sileo. He also plays electric bass with Mistral Pusher and has worked as assistant to the artistic direction of EstOvest Festival.

His further guitar training included courses with Leo Brouwer, Giulio Tampalini, Gianni Nuti, Roberto Masala and Lucia Pizzutel. He has appeared at the Lagonegro and Castell’Arquato festivals, the Brescia concert society, Asti’s Puntoprimo association and Musicare’s young musicians’ series in Nuoro. In 2006 he made his debut as a promising young performer at the ninth Alessandria guitar convention, and in 2012 gave a live concert and interview for Radio della Svizzera Italiana.

Angelo Gilardino entrusted him with the first performance of the Concerto di Sancto Lucio de Coumboscuro, alongside principal players of the RAI orchestra in Turin. He was one of eight composers selected for Stefano Gervasoni’s workshop organised by Divertimento Ensemble in Milan. He won the tenth composition competition of Milan’s Galleria d’Arte Moderna, whose jury was chaired by Marcello Abbado.