Fabio Ferrucci
Curriculum vitae
Fabio Ferrucci was born in 1969 in Faenza. He graduated at Conservatorio “Francesco Venezze” - Rovigo in Piano (1989), Choral music and choir conducting (1994), Didactics (1994), Acoustics and tuning (1995); at Conservatorio “G. B. Martini” - Bologna in Electroacoustic music (2001). From 1989 to 1993 he attended Piano Academy “Incontri col maestro” in Imola.
He also graduated cum laude in Philosophy at Alma Mater Studiorum - Bologna with a thesis on Renaissance mnemonic techniques.
Since 1989 he has been teaching Piano at Scuola Comunale di Musica “G. Sarti” in Faenza. From 1994 to 1999 he taught Music Education at Scuola Media “S. Umiltà” in Faenza. In 1999 he was a winner in the national ordinary competition for Theory, rhythm and eartraining teachers. Since then he has been teaching at Conservatorio “Arrigo Boito” in Parma. Since 2008 he is also Head of Theory Department and since 2022 internal member of the Quality assurance board. He's been Students' counsellor (2012-2024) and Didactic supervisor (2016-2022). Since 2024 he is Pro-rector for PhD and Postgraduate courses and the person in charge for ECTS and career recognition.
He carries out an intense teaching and training mobility activity at European institutions. He has taken part four times in the jury of the International Solfège Competition in Ljubljana (2015, 2017, 2023 and 2025 editions) and in October 2017 has given an eartraining masterclass at the prestigious Gnesins Academy in Moscow. Curriculum designer in the Strategic parnerships VoxEarlyMus, he is the person in charge for Conservatorio "Boito" at CNVQR. From 2018 to 2021 he's been AFAM Subject expert for the National Evaluation agency on higher education (ANVUR).
He created and every year organizes the International Ear training workshop and forum "Sentiamoci a Parma - connecting ears!", in order to gather in a single event eartraining teachers from different European institutions and experiences. Starting from 2015, Sentiamoci a Parma has built up a network of more than 250 teachers from 30 countries all over Europe and beyond: the 11th edition will take place April 15 to 18, 2026. He is regularely invited as a speaker in the most relevant events in this sector (HarMA, Nordisk gehørpedagogisk konferanse, GMTH-Kongresses, Escola de Outono, Ear training in Progress...). Guest professor at Tianjin East High School of Arts (China), he also collaborated in the Italian version of the EarMaster software.
In 2019 he was one of the two winners in the first "Leonardo da Vinci" call for Arts and Music Institutions staff, an award established by National Ministery to enhance the skills and abilities of Italian higher education teaching and research staff at the international level. This grant allowed him to collaborate as a visiting academic with the UiT in Tromsø (Norway). In 2020 he won the "Leonardo da Vinci" prize for the second time, thanks to a cooperation project with the Royal Conservatoire in Den Haag (The Netherlands) and the Latvian Academy of Music in Riga (Latvia).
He created and coordinates the second level Postgraduate Specialization Course in Theory, rhythm and musical perception - Ear training, the only active course in Italy and one of the few in Europe focused in building competences for prospective teachers in this field.
He translated De umbris idearum by Giordano Bruno and wrote “L’arte della memoria di Giordano Bruno” (The art of memory in Giordano Bruno), published by Anima Edizioni (Milano, 2006), with the practical and concrete explanation of the memory techniques devised by the philosopher.
Since 2023, he has organized and coordinated the annual international research symposium "Ear training in progress" for the "Vincenzo Bellini" Conservatory of Music in Catania and since 2026 the Ear training workshop “Sentiamoci a Sassari” at "Luigi Canepa" Conservatory of Music in Sassari (Sardinia).
Since 2024, he has been a member of the DIN "Artistic Research on Musical Heritage" board and PhD supervisor.
He holds Ear training courses for the Association of Choirs of Emilia Romagna (AERCO) and Tuscany (ACT).