Born in Pisa in 1973, Francesco Filidei graduated from the Conservatory of Florence and the Paris Conservatoire. As organist and composer, he has been invited by the most important festivals of contemporary music, performed by orchestras such as the WDR, the SWR, the RSO Wien, the Tokyo Philharmonic, and by ensembles such as 2e2m, Linéa, L’Itinéraire, Alter Ego, Intercontemporain, Klangforum Wien, and many more. After obtaining a commission from the IRCAM Reading Committee in 2005, he was awarded the Salzburg Music Award (2006), the Takefu Prize (2007), the Siemens Composers’ Prize (2009), the UNESCO Picasso–Miró-Medal of the Rostrum of Composers (2011) and the Franco Abbiati Prize (2015). He has taught composition at Royaumont (“Voix Nouvelles”), the University of Iowa, Takefu, the International Young Composers Academy in Tchaikovsky City, and Barga inaudita.