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Andrea Damiano Cotti was born in Italy in 1985. He studied at the Conservatorio “Giuseppe Verdi” in Turin (IT) with G.Elos, G.M.Guida and D.Tabbia and qualified in both choral conducting (2008) and composition (2012) with full marks. He took his degree “summa cum laude” in Literature at the Turin University(2014) presenting a musicologic study on Max Reger's works.

In 2014 he received the "De Sono" scholarship to continue his musical studies.
In june 2016 received his Diploma di Alto Perfezionamento in Composition from the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome, where he studied with Ivan Fedele.
Andrea Damiano Cotti is active in various musical fields: he teaches piano and musical theory, leads the orchestra “Musica Manens and, since 2011, is the Music Director of the choir “Musicainsieme” in Chieri (Italy).

Andrea Damiano Cotti wrote a large number of works, many of them received national and international awards: First prize of Competition ‘Benedetto XVI’ in Rome (2013), First Prize of the V International Composition Competition ‘Claxica’ (2013), First prize in the 3rd International Composition Competition “RDS” (2013), Second prize at the "A.Giovannini" competition (2014), Special mention and medal of the Camera dei Deputati della Repubblica Italiana given by the jury of the International composition competition Citta' di Udine(2016).

In March 2016 he was admitted tas finalist in the International Competition “Premio Trio di Trieste - Giampaolo Coral Award”. In june 2017 he has been awarded with the Special mention by the “EstOvest Festival”.
He was selected as composer by the festival "Risuonanze" (2015), in the same year was chosen by the jury of the “Divertimento Ensemble” to take part to the first “International Workshop for Young Composers” in Bobbio (2015) where he attended masterclasses with Sandro Gorli, Stefano Gervasoni and Michael Jarrell. He won the first prize of the “Stresa composition competition” (2018) and the first prize at the “London Ear Festival”(2018)
His works are published by “Verlag fur neue Musik – Berlin”.