Francesco Vitucci, born in 1991, is a composer from Grumo Appula (Bari - Italy).
In 2016 he obtained the Academic Diploma (Bachelor) in Composition with full marks and honour, under the guidance of Biagio Putignano, at the Conservatory “Niccolò Piccinni” in Bari. With the same teacher and at the same institution he completed his studies, attending the two-year experimental Master in “Technological musical disciplines - Composition”, and obtaining the Diploma in 2018 with full marks, honour and mention of the jury.
In May 2020 he obtained the Master of Advanced Studies in “Music Composition” with full marks and honour, at the Conservatory of Italian Switzerland, in Lugano, under the guidance of Nadir Vassena.
In June 2022, under the guidance of Ivan Fedele, he obtained the Postgraduate Specialization Diploma in “Composition”, at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia (Rome), with full marks and honour.
At the same institution, he attended the “Electronic Music” course, held by Michelangelo Lupone.
In 2024, under the guidance of Francesco Scagliola, he obtained the Master in Electronic Music with full marks, honour and mention of the jury.
Ordinary member of S.I.M.C. (Italian Society of Contemporary Music), his works are performed in concerts and contemporary music festivals, in Italy and abroad (France, Switzerland, Croatia, America, Japan), and have been positively evaluated in various national and international composition competitions: First Prize in the International Composition Competition “2 Agosto” – XXVII edition (2021); Best piece of the trilogy award and the Best piece among the youngest composers award, within the 1st Composition Competition “Lirica da camera su testi di poeti e scrittori delle Case Museo di Romagna” (2021); Jurypreis and Publikumspreis, at the “Junges Lied-Wettbewerbes” Competition in Zurich (2022); Grand Prix in the 4th International Composer Competition “New Music Generation 2022”, organized by the Kazakh National University of Arts (2022); finalist in the “Luciano Berio” International Composition Competition (2023).
He has received several commissions for acoustic and mixed music (Orchestra Magna Grecia, Orchestra Sinfonica Metropolitana di Bari, ArteScienza, CRM [Centro Ricerche Musicali di Roma], Musinfo [Saint-Étienne - France], Coro Sol-O Canto, Trio Lumen, Caelium, etc).
Currently, at the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory in Bari, he is a PhD student in “Computational electroacoustic music composition, generative algorithmic models and computational complexity”.