Carlo Ferdinando de Nardis is born in L’Aquila, Italy, in 1993.
He graduated in Violin and in Organ, with highest honours, from Conservatorio “Alfredo Casella” dell’Aquila and in Composition, with honours, at Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia di Roma, following the courses of Alessandro Cusatelli. He has also studied composition, with an Erasmus+ grant, at Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst in Vienna, with Detlev Müller-Siemens and Jean-Bernard Matter.
He graduated also in Mathematics from Università degli Studi dell’Aquila, with honours.
He is active as composer and as performer, both as soloist at the organ and in chamber ensembles as violinist and violist. He has performed more than two hundred concerts as soloist or in various chamber ensembles, in Italy, Austria, Spain, United Kingdom, Lithuania.
In 2014 his piece L’Asino d’oro for harp ensemble is winner of a composition competition and is performed at Arpissima harp festival, sponsored by Salvi Harps.
In 2017 he has been composer in residence for Società Aquilana dei Concerti, as winner of a selection issued by Italian Society of Authors and Publishers (SIAE), having as tutors Fabio Vacchi and Ivan Fedele. In this occasion he composed Apollo et Daphne, scenic cantata for voices and ensemble, premièred in Società “Barattelli” concert season in November 2017.
In 2019 he is resident at Biennale di Venezia music festival, among the project Biennale College, under the tutoring of Cesare Fertonani.
He has also received commissions by the German organist Amelie Held (Taratàntara dixit, for organ and two trumpets, 2018) and by the Belgian soprano Esther Rispens (La cena di Anna, intermezzo for soprano, percussions and strings, 2019).
Currently he is working, both as composer and as organist, with computer musician Maurizio Di Berardino on a concert-performance for baroque organ and live electronics titled “Organa” which will be premiered in Paganica (Italy) in June 2020.
In 2019 he realized a critical edition of Alfredo Casella’s Concerto Romano for organ and orchestra, presenting the work among an international musicology conference, also performing it in Rome with the National Orchestra of Conservatoires. As a scholar, he has written many papers and articles about music and, in general, humanities.