Karl Fiorini was born on 1 December 1979. He graduated from the University of Malta in 2002, specialising in Music composition under the tuition of Joseph Vella and Charles Camilleri. His main compositions during this period were Solitudni fil-Belt (2003) for narrator, mezzo soprano, clarinet/bass clarinet, violin/viola and piano performed at the Berlin Konzerthaus, the Leipzig Gewandhaus and the Kurhaus in Wiesbaden during the Europamusicale Festival (2004) and the Trio Lamina (2002) for violin, clarinet and piano which co-won the 22nd edition of the Alea III International Composition Competition, Boston (2004).

In 2003 Karl won two scholarships from the Janatha Stubbs Trust and the Garfield Weston Foundation to further his studies at the Guildhall school of Music and Drama, London, where he read for a Masters degree with composer Diana Burrell, and his work Aleamantes for soprano and piano won the Tracey Chadwell Memorial Prize for Composition. During the same year Karl wrote the string quartet Stimuli, also revised for string orchestra and Piano Trio which won a special mention in the Franz Schubert and the Music of Modern Times Competition, Graz, (2005) and was selected by the Pierrot Lunaire Ensemble Wien for tour repertoire.

Karl’s music has been performed by the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the European Union Chamber Orchestra, among others. His music has been performed in Austria, Cyprus, the Czech Republic, Finland, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Portugal, Spain, UK and USA and is scheduled for performance in Malta, the Netherlands, Portugal, and Spain.

Karl’s early music reflects his interest in ballet and folk music for children with compositions such as Noli and Shou. This interest is reflected in his later collaborations with dancers from the London Contemporary Dance school and other projects in which the importance of movement and structured sound is predominant.

In 2005 Karl was commissioned to write Imagination at Work, a composition for symphony orchestra based on General Electric’s axiom of the same name. He is currently working on various commissions; a string trio for the Aristos Trio, Denmark; a cello concerto for Mats Lidström and a composition for string orchestra for the European Union Chamber Orchestra.