Leonardo Nevari was born in Italy in 1992 and started to study piano at six years old. From 2010 he had been studying piano and composition at I.S.S.M. Boccherini in Lucca under the guide of M° R. Peruzzi and M° P. Rigacci, graduating summa cum laude in 2015. At the same time, from 2012 to 2014 he had been attending the courses at I.S.S.M. Boccherini in Lucca and Talent Music Master Academy in Brescia with M° A. Delle Vigne and M° F. Bidini. In 2015 he started the Master's Degree in Music Performance at Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano (CH), where he graduated in 2018 under the guide of M° Anna Kravtchenko; at the same institution, he had been attending, from 2019 to 2023, the Master's Degree in Theory and Composition with Prof. Nadir Vassena. He is now involved in the Artistic Research Doctorate (PhD) at Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts. As a pianist, Nevari is first-prize winner in several international and national competitions (Nuova Coppa Pianisti in Osimo, Grand Prize Virtuoso in London, Stresa Int’l Competition, etc.) and has been playing in Switzerland and abroad as soloist, member of chamber music groups, and with orchestra, with a repertoire that ranges from baroque to contemporary music. Concerts in Salzburg (Wiener Saal), London (Royal Albert Hall, Elgar Room), Lugano (Auditorium Stelio Molo; Lugano LAC), Genoa (Palazzo S. Giorgio), Plovdiv (Bulgaria National Radio Auditorium), Stresa (Palazzo dei Congressi), Sobrio (Casa Mahler), Brescia (Salone Monumentale del Museo Diocesano), La Spezia (Teatro Civico; Sala Dante), Milan (Auditorium Coop), Lucca (Auditorium del Suffragio; Oratorio degli Angeli Custodi), Florence (Salone dei 500), Viareggio (Villa Borbone), etc. He played for several international music festivals such as: Maggio Musicale Fiorentino in Florence, Festival Paganiniano di Carro, Pomeriggi Musicali by Società dei Concerti Onlus, Talent Music Masters series in Brescia, '900 Presente in Lugano, FIMU in Belfort (FR), etc. In 2015 he played for the complete Bach's Well-Tempered Klavier video live-recording at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence for the association La Pasqua di Bach. From 2016 until 2017 he had been playing in the '900 Presente Ensemble, cooperating with conductors Arturo Tamayo and Francesco Bossaglia and specializing in modern and contemporary repertoire (P. Boulez, S. Reich, K. Stockhausen, K. Huber, G. Kurtág). Since 2016 he has been collaborating with the Polish double bass player Klaudia Baca, focusing on Romantic and Post-Romantic composers. He is now under a discographic contract with the Spanish label KNS for a CD including original and non-original compositions. After some years of career as a concert pianist, he started to undertake the composer’s path as the main profession, debuting as a composer, performer, and improviser in 2016 at Trimontiada Radio Festival in Bulgaria. From 2019 to 2021 he curated several times the spatialization and sound diffusion for EAR festival (Electro Acoustic Room) in Lugano, and his compositions OSuite (cello and live electronics) and A (violin and live electronics) were premiered in the same series in 2021 and 2022. In 2023 his composition Fiore di Kadupul had been premiered in Poland by the Philharmonia Częstochowa Orchestra under the baton of Adam Klocek, with the double bass player Klaudia Baca as soloist. In 2024, his work Frame was premiered by the ensembles Cimarrón and Blechzinnen, conducted by Clemens Heil, during the Settimane della Musica G. Mahler in Dobbiaco. Furthermore, his music theater performance Nel Sol Giacéa Lontano, for reciting voice and ensemble, debuted in Porto Cesareo in 2024 as a commission by the Vitae Aeternae Festival. Some of his arrangements include F. Battiato’s Tutto l’universo obbedisce all’amore, commissioned by Clairière Choir and premiered on the occasion of Lella Costa’s theater piece Intelletto d’amore in Chiasso, Les Trois Mousquetaires by J. Joubert (in the role of performer, arranger, and improviser), and Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, commissioned by Lucerne’s association Youth for Opera and performed in 2022 in several venues such as the Stans Theater, Kuk Aarau, and Sternensaal in Bümpliz. Sound art covers a relevant role in Nevari’s work: in 2021 he created Studio sulla Persistenza del Mare, a four-channel sound installation commissioned by Marina Militare (Italian Navy), which had been built into Santa Barbara’s Dome on Tino Island (La Spezia, Italy) and was open to the public from 3rd of July 2021 until December 2021. In September 2021 he cooperated with OSI (Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana) and Locarno’s CISA Film Academy to create Il Quarto Paesaggio – I Luoghi delle Interferenze, an audio- video installation premiered at Lugano’s LAC on 28th of September. During November and December 2022, he was promoted by Pro Helvetia to undertake a research trip to Nepal on the topic Das Glasperlenspiel and the Buddhist concept of non-linear time in music, investigating the time-space relation in Buddhist culture as the concept underpinning Hermann Hesse’s homonymous book. In 2023 he created Lympha: A Cathartic Ritual in a Fluid Space, an experimental performance for voice, water, and electronics, which involved the singer Margherita Scaramuzzino as soloist. The work was commissioned by the Festival Rümlingen and debuted at Monte Verità (CH) on 29th of July 2023