Francesco Di Fiore, pianist and composer, was born in Palermo. He studied with Harald Ossberger, Bruno Canino, Peter Toperczer and Eliodoro Sollima. He studied in Vienna and Prague. In 1986 he started his concert career performing hundreds of concerts worldwide. He is author of contemporary music of post-modern post-minimalist area. Alongside music for piano, his compositions include chamber and orchestral music, film soundtracks and stage music. In 2011 he created an original and enormous project called Miniature 2011 in which he composed a new piece each week and presented it on the internet. The project yielded 53 compositions totalling around 210 minutes of new music. His albums are released by Dutch Label Zefir Records (https://www.zefirrecords.nl/). He is currently working at a new piano solo album that will be released by the end of 2021.