Andrea Basevi  began studying with M. Moretti, then graduated from the Conservatory of Turin in Choral Music and Chorus Conducting with Don V. Bellone, and in  Composition with G. Bosco. He continued his studies with B. Ferneyhough at the Staatlische Hochschüle fur Musik in Freiburg, and with  L. Berio. An important stage in his education was a Course in Ethnomusicology with S. Arom at the Accademia Chigiana. After being noticed at the 1989 Bucchi Price with a musical fairytale broadcast by RAI, he has twice won the Competition “Play and Music” of the magazine Amadeus. He is interested in many areas of music: he has composed music for drama for the Repertory Theatres of Genoa and  Turin, written film music for the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia  Rome, and has received special mention from Ennio Morricone in a Chigiana Academy competition. He has worked extensively on the music / voice relation, producing radio works, songs for children and opera on texts by author Roberto Piumini. He has been active in primary education, as director in Genoa of the chorus in various Primary  Schools. With Piumini he has produced two books for children on musical instruments and notation, published by Fabbri editor in Milan. From 2006 he is member of AIKEM, association for music education with the Kodály methodology. He has composed the short operas for children : Zazie adapted from Queneau, Pinocchio from  Collodi,  Peter Pan from Barrie, Alice from Lewis Carroll, and from Piumini’s books The Empoli’s circus, The Malafiato, The Brema’s musicians.He is Artistic Director of Music Association Sant’Ambrogio, which promotes contemporary music.He teaches Harmony at the Conservatory of  Alessandria.