SMAILI, Marco

Marco Smaili has been awarded many prizes, among them the “Manuel de Falla” International Prize for guitar composition for , obscura, íntima (Sevilla 2018), “Andrés Segovia” International Prize for guitar composition for La misma luz de entonces (Granada 1999), International Prize for guitar composition Festival of Ponferrada for Boleros (Ponferrada  2001), Diploma di merito di composizione per chitarra “Paolo Barsachi” (Viareggio-Italy 2002), Awarded in Aalborg (Denmark 2024) for Ophelia.

He obtained the Title of  guitar Superior Professor with honors  at the “Óscar Esplá” conservatory in Alicante (Spain) with José Tomás and later graduated in Humanities with Extraordinary Prize at the University of Castilla-La Mancha. 

His works are published in Les Productions d’OZ, L’empreinte Mélodique, EMEC, Piles, BG éditions-Alphonse Leduc, Ut Orpheus edizioni, Bergmann and artist such David Russell, Roberto Aussel, Álex Garrobé, Cristiano Porqueduu, Kostas Tosidis, Margarita Escarpa, Carles Trepat, Anders Clemens, Piero Bonaguri, Paul Bowman are incorporating into your repertoire. 

Leo Brouwer, Sergio Assad, Roberto Aussel and David Russell have commented very positively on Smaili's personal style and compositional technique in a short documentary by the Knobloch label on the occasion of the release of the album Another Light (Àlex Garrobé plays Marco Smaili).