Fabio Mariani is born in Rome in 1962.
Guitarist and Composer of national fame he has begun in 1984 with the “TRATTATO DI CHITARRA JAZZ” (Manual Of Jazz Guitar) a didactic Best Seller of the modern didactics.
From 1998 it is printed by Warner Italia.

From the 84 to today Fabio has printed over 500 essays on specialized magazines. He has made workshops and lectures anywhere in Italy and in USA.

He was the first Italian musician has been invited to the Musicians Institute in Hollywood in 1990. He made concerts and lectures in Hollywood, Chicago, Milwaukee, New York.
Guest of the American newscast of the CBS “CBS NEWS.”

Within the pop scene he has collaborated with Pino Daniele, Claudio Baglioni, Teresa De Sio, Mimmo Locasciulli, Ivan Graziani, Bruno Martino, Gigi Proietti and many others.

As Band Leader has printed 4 CD with his name and others 14 as collaborations.

He has published in 1996 a Didactic Video “La chitarra" (the guitar) for the Playgame. He has participated in the realization of other 3 Didactic Videos of Massimo Moriconi. In 1991 He has founded the "University of the Music". He has developed from 1991 to 1993 the role of Didactic Manager and Manager of the Faculty of Guitar. In 1993 he leaves the UM for a series of personal appointments. Great expert of Computer science, in USA he comes into contact with Internet.
It is thanks to him if a lot of Italian musical realities immediately are visible from on the net. In 1998 has founded the Web Music Company Spa, the first Italian society able to distribute digital music through a sure and certified system: LIQUID AUDIO.
Fabio brings in Italy the exclusive national of the use of this innovative software. On the wave of this adventure it pushes since that time the SIAE (Itaian music rights society) and its President, Luciano Bideri, to take action of the new reality and proxy so the FIRST LICENSE IN EUROPE ON THE ONLINE COPYRIGHT. Fabio (Deputy President of the WMC) signs, together with Peter Hobart (President WMC) and with the SIAE President Luciano Bideri, that license January 18 th 1999.
In 1999 he purchases the school Saint Louis in Rome, historical local reality. he restructures it, giving also a new image besides a new direction up to the moment that the UM needs him again. He leaves the Saint Louis and returns so inside the UM, purchasing the packet of absolute majority in 2000 and since then it has renewed the environments, the organization chart, the didactics, the modus operands, the image. He has opened and exploited the open spaces, cabled the whole building in optical fibers , created a net of over 40 terminals, opened Departments and Divisions that interact among them. The New UM.

In 2003 he founded the UM Records and has published his new work NADI with the Fabio Mariani Group and with guests Jeff Berlin and Danny Gottlieb.
It also produces the new CD of Pino Iodice and the debut CD of Cinzia Tedesco, always for the UM Records.


Fabio Mariani Group is composed by Stefano Sastro (keyboards), Claudio Zanghieri (Bass), Giovanni Di Caprio (guitar), Raul Scebba (percussions) and Maurice Dei LAzzaretti (drums).

DIGITAL CONNECTION (1989)
Fabio Mariani Gtr
Masimo Idà Keys
Luca Pirozzi El. Bass
Maurizio Boco Drums
Fly By Night



GATE 32 (1993)
Fabio Mariani Gtr
Maurizio Giammarco sax
Danilo Rea Piano
Massimo Moriconi Bass
Claudio Mastracci Drums
Arnaldo Vacca Percussion
UM Records



NADI (2003)
Fabio Mariani Gtr
Stefano Sastro Keys
Pino Iodice Piano
Andrea Beneventano Piano
Jeff Berlin El. Bass
Pippo Matino El. Bass
Claudio Zanghieri El. Bass
Danny Gottlieb Drums
Davide Pettirossi Drums
UM Records
2003

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