Alessandro Milia (born in Cagliari, Italy) has been developing for several years a personal style of composition founded on his university research on hybridization of different aspects such as orality and experimental music. He studied composition with Franco Oppo, Jose Manuel Lopez Lopez, André Bon and Salvatore Sciarrino, and he studied musicology with Antonio Lai and Ivanka Stoianova. In 2015, Alessandro has closed his Ph.D thesis entitled Variations et variantes dans l'oralité et dans la création musicale expérimentale, le langage musical de Franco Oppo, Horatiu Radulescu et Alessandro Milia (Université Paris 8). He has published several articles: Franco Oppo, appunti sulla figura e sullo stile (Musica/Realtà 2011) and Spectralism and Traditional Oral Music in the Style of Horatiu Radulescu (University of Edinburgh 2012). Alessandro is also teaching at a conservatory in Paris. Some of his recent compositional works include: Giorzi'eFrores (2011) for solo mandolin Ed. Les Produtions d'Oz (Canada), Sonata (2013) for solo piano Ed. ArsPublica (Italy), Musica per quartetto d'archi… gli universi isomorfi (2013) for string quartet, Gli Specchi di Giorzi (2014) for ensemble, L'Uovo di Brancusi (2014) for flute and string quartet and Reminiscenze dall'uovo (2015) for bass flute, viola and cello.

Compositore Italiano. 
Compie i suoi studi musicali presso il Conservatorio di Alessandria, si perfeziona presso l'Accademia Nazionale Santa Cecilia con Azio Corghi, il Royal College of Music di Londra, con Julian Anderson ed Edwin Roxburgh, e successivamente presso la Birmingham City University dove ottiene un Dottorato di Ricerca (Ph.D.)
Vincitore di numerosi concorsi nazionali e internazionali (“2012 Karol Szymanowski International Competition for Orchestra”, “Premi Internacional por Orquestra Ciutad de Tarragona 2004”, “The 14th Ivan Spassov Symphonic orchestra composition competition”,  etc ).
Suoi lavori  sono stati selezionati in prestigiosi festival (“Torino SettembreMusica”, “4th Portland Chamber Music Festival”, etc) ed eseguiti  da ensembles e orchestre nazionali  e internazionali  (Orchestra de I  Pomeriggi Musicali,  Orchestra  Filarmonica  di  Torino,  Orchestra  Filarmonica  di  Cracovia,  Trio  Debussy, North/South Ensemble di New York, etc). E’ anche autore di opere di teatro musicale e musiche da film. La sua scrittura, eclettica e libera da condizionamenti  di  “regime”,  coniuga  gestualità  deliberatamente  “inattuali”  a  un  gusto  della parodia, riassorbendo entrambi in un costruttivismo drammatico all’insegna di un estetico ed etico “Richiamo all’ordine” (Jean Cocteau). 

Italian composer, born in Bergamo in 1962. Stefano Gervasoni began studying composition in 1980 on the advice of Luigi Nono: this encounter, as well as others with Brian Ferneyhough, Peter Eötvös and Helmut Lachenmann, turned out to be decisive for his career. After attending the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan, Stefano Gervasoni studied with  György Ligeti in Hungary in 1990, and then, in 1992, he attended the IRCAM Course in Composition and in Computer Music in Paris. The first three years in France launched Gervasoni's international career that eventually led him to be artist-in-residence at Villa Medici in Rome for the biennium1995-1996.
With commissions from prestigious institutions such the WDR, the SWR, the Orchestra Nazionale della RAI, the Münchner Kammerorchester, the Festival d'Automne in Paris, Radio France, IRCAM, the Casa da Musica in Porto, the Festival Archipel in Geneva, the Divertimento Ensemble in Milan, the Ensemble Intercontemporain, the Ensemble Modern, the Ensemble Contrechamps in Geneva, the Maerzmusik festival in Berlin, the Ars Musica Bruxelles, the Festival Musica in Strasbourg, the French Ministry of Culture, Milan Teatro alla Scala and Suntory Hall in Tokyo, Stefano Gervasoni has established himself as one of the most important Italian composers of his generation. His catalogue – which includes chamber and vocal music, concertos, works for orchestra, for ensemble and an opera (Limbus-Limbo), commissioned for the 50th anniversary of the Percussions de Strasbourg (2012) – was first published by Ricordi, from 1987, and then, from 2000, by Suvini Zerboni.
A monographic CD entitled Antiterra, which features the pieces An, Animato, Antiterra, Least Bee, Godspell, and Epicadenza, released in 2008 by Aeon, bears witness to «a sonic world of great wealth, subtlety, refinement, expressive but also organic, that immediately captures one’s attention» (Philippe Albèra). Other monographic recording collections include the Harmonia Mundi CD in the series Musique Française d'Aujourd'hui (Ensemble Contrechamps), the Stradivarius CD by Divertimento Ensemble and the CD Dir-in dir released in 2014 by Winter & Winter (Académie Charles Cros price and Diapason d'or in France). A recent CD by Winter & WInter, released in 2016, entitled Le pré includes the three books of a piano cycle.
Winner of numerous prizes, including the recent Premio della Critica Musicale "Franco Abbiati" (2010), his work has allowed him to be a grant-holder at the Fondation des Treilles in Paris (1994) and at the DAAD in Berlin (2006) and composer-in-residence at the Domaine de Kerguéhennec during the period 2008-2010. He has also been invited to teach at the Darmstadt Ferienkurse, on the courses organised by the Fondation Royaumont (Paris), at Toho University in Tokyo, at the Festival International di Campos do Jordão in Brazil, at the Conservatory in Shanghai, at Columbia University (New York), at Harvard University (Boston) and at Takefu International Music Festival. He has been composer-in-residence at Lausanne Conservatoire (2005) and at Yellow Barn Summer Academy (Vermont, 2016). Moreover, he has been visiting professor at ESMUC in Barcelona for the 2012-13 academic year.
Since 2006 Stefano Gervasoni has held a regular teaching post as professor of composition at the prestigious Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse in Paris.
The musicologist Philippe Albèra wrote a substantial book on Stefano Gervasoni's work, Stefano Gervasoni. Le parti pris des sons, published in 2015 by Editions Contrechamps (Geneva).

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