Giovanni Sparano is a composer, performer, and sound artist. He holds a Second Level Master’s degree in Composition from Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory of Milan and a Master’s degree in Composition and New Technologies from Benedetto Marcello Conservatory of Venice.

His compositions have been performed in venues and festivals such as the Venice Biennale Musica, Rome EMUfest, International Conference on Intelligent Autonomous Systems, New Made Week Project “SIAE – Classics of Today”, Venice Gran Teatro La Fenice, and New York City Electroacoustic Music Festival. In 2017 the Gran Teatro La Fenice commissioned him the music for the multimedia opera FENIX DNA, by the internationally renowned artist Fabrizio Plessi, scheduled for the Opera Season.

As electronic performer he participated in events such as the Venice Biennale Musica and Biennale Architettura, Sound and Music Computing Conference, Festival Camino Contro Corrente, Audio Mostly, Opera Season of Venice Gran Teatro la Fenice, Torino To Listen To Festival, and openAGON.

As researcher in the fields of digital audio processing and live electronics, he published scientific papers for the Colloquio di Informatica Musicale, International Computer Music Conference, and Sound and Music Computing Conference.

He is a founding member of Arazzi Laptop Ensemble and Pourquoi-Pas Ensemble. His scores are published by ARS Publica and Taukay Edizioni Musicali.