Riccardo Massari [Massari] Spiritini (1966), an Italian composer, born in Verona. He studied architecture in Venice, piano and composition in Verona (Italy). He studied Sonology at the Koninklijk Conservatorium of The Hague (Holland), as a student of Clarence Barlow, Richard Barret, Paul Berg, Joel Ryan and Konrad Boehmer. He obtained his composition diploma (Bachelor of Music) in 1999, and the second phase (Master of Music) in 2000, also at the Koninklijk Conservatorium of The Hague. He has attended Composition Masterclasses with: Louis Andriessen, Gyorgi Ligeti, Gyorgi Kurtag, Alessandro Solbiati, Walter Zimmerman and Frank Piquet.
Today Riccardo Massari Spiritini is focusing more and more on his own reserch. His work has also a strong link with the visual arts and there are crossovers with literature, theater, and poetry. His visual work Phisique du Role is to be visited in Musica e No, exposiction of National Galery of Florencia, together with works by Joan Brossa, Enrico Baj, Philip Corner and Giuseppe Chiari.
Beside his composer carreer Massari, is a great performer of live electronic music (turntable , samplers, computer). He performed with Maarten Altena Ensemble, in the Concertgebouw of Amsterdam , works by Maarten Altena; and also in the Terza Prattica Festival of Amsterdam, in a duo with Cor Fuhler.