Flavio Nati is a young classical guitarist, appreciated for his “maturity and quality of the highest level” whose concerts have been described as “an authentic experience for the various styles masterfully performed” (Diaro de Àvila).
Graduated with honours in 2012 at the Conservatorium “Santa Cecilia” in his hometown - Rome - with Arturo Tallini, in under the guidance of Carlo Marchione he has took the master’s degree in “classical guitar performance” with full marks and honours at the Conservatorium of Maastricht, the Netherlands.
Furthermore, he was accepted various times in the prestigious Accademia Chigiana (Siena, Italy), where he attended the course of Oscar Ghiglia and has received honourable mentions and scholarships.
He recently certified with full marks in the M.A. II Level Course in Interpretation of Contemporary Music at Conservatorium “Santa Cecilia” and in Guitar Performance at Conservatorium “Arrigo Boito” in Parma.
He gave concerts all around Italy and Europe (Spain, Netherlands, Austria, Croatia, France). In addition, he's been recently performing in a series of recitals in Japan and Korea every year since 2017, always with great success within audience and critics. He has been invited in TV and radio broadcasts, such as the prestigious Radio4 in Amsterdam and Cremona1 TV.
In recent years he participated and got awarded in more than 30 national and international competitions, such as “Tokyo International Guitar Competition”, “Fernando Sor”, “Classical Guitar Competition of Finland”, “Nagoya International Guitar Competition”, “Alirio Diaz”, “Enrico Mercatali”, “Mottola”, “Claxica”, “Città di Gargnano”, “Giulio Rospigliosi”, “Ferdinando Carulli”, “José Tomàs - Villa de Petrer” (Petrer, Spain).
The prestigious Scientific Committee of Guitar Convention “Michele Pittaluga” awarded him with the Golden Guitar 2016 “Young Promise” as the best up-and-coming guitarist of the year.
In 2018 he won the Respighi Prize: for this reason, he will play as soloist with the New York Chamber Orchestra in 2019/2020 season at the prestigious Carnegie Hall - Weill Hall.
He also plays in chamber ensembles, especially duos, with flute, with guitar, viola, singers or in bigger formations. Recently he won the first prize at the International Guitar Competition “Ferdinando Carulli” for chamber music section.
The understanding that the members of the Elsa Quartet and Nati demonstrated in this piece produced an interesting performance born from an alchemy made up of looks and smiles exchanged. Perfectly in harmony both in the lyrical pages of the second movement, Andante mesto, and in the Allegro con fuoco, so full of character and impetus. The Elsa Quartet gradually constituted itself as a single voice to which Nati was a counterpoint exalting the various timbres of his instrument according to the paths that the complex score indicates. [Rome, 2018]
Since 2013 he is part of the guitar octet Supernova, ensemble under the direction of Arturo Tallini, formed by eight young Italian prizewinners of important national and international competitions and already on their way to a concert career. The ensemble explores contemporary music, improvisation, the use of electronic music put in contact with the “classical” guitar and its tradition.
In addition, he is a founder member of Arte₂O, an organization born in 2010 whose aim is to organize classical music events targeted to young people and musical courses in various schools of Rome.
Since 2017 he is a pre-academic courses teacher in the Conservatories “G. B. Martini” in Bologna and “Antonio Buzzolla” in Adria.
Furthermore, he has been giving masterclasses all across Italy (Italian Guitar Campus; Segovia Guitar Academy - Pordenone; Classic Music Lab; Associazione "Ciao Classica", Latina; Associazione "Giulio Rospigliosi").
He also took part in the juries of important national and international competitions (“Giulio Rospigliosi”, “Fernando Sor”).
Credits:
Damiano Rosa