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Gerardo Gozzi is a composer, improviser, educator, and conductor.  

His music is characterised by the use of microtonality, extended techniques and complex timbres. It stems from close collaborations with colleague performers and his own practice on saxophone and clarinet. 

Gerardo's research in composition focuses on exploring the concept of ‘spatial mental projection’ in the listener’s inner representation of the external world. Drawing from psychoacoustics while examining interactions between sound and space, his music uses orchestration and instrumentation techniques that convey an illusory spatial perception. Three-dimensional “sound sculptures” can emerge from instrumental/vocal extended techniques, the filtering and layering of sound sources, the performers' use of gestural space, and the propagation of soundwaves in reverberant acoustics. Find out more about . 

His music has been performed in prestigious festivals and venues worldwide, by internationally acclaimed soloists and ensembles as Talea (New York), Exaudi (London), Ensemble InterContemporain (Paris), Divertimento (Milan), Fractales (Brussels), Duo Ebano (Amsterdam), among others. He regularly performs with the London Improvisers Orchestra and close collaborator improvisers. 

Gerardo holds a PhD in Composition from the Royal Academy of Music. Prior to that, he studied composition and orchestral conducting at the ·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥app and the Academia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy). His composition mentors have been Azio Corghi, Stefano Gervasoni, Dai Fujikura, Simon Bainbridge, Oliver Knussen and Pierluigi Billone. 

Gerardo has taught at the ·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥app since 2018, and is currently the Area Leader in Improvisation, Theory and Analysis. While his current research is dedicated to new approaches to composition and improvisation, he has a strong background in historical techniques. At the ·¬ÇÑÖ±²¥app he teaches Stylistic Composition and Improvisation, as well as the core Improvisation, Theory and Analysis modules.