Pianist, composer, orchestra conductor and a jazz musician of international fame, Giorgio Gaslini has to his credit more than three thousand concerts and a hundred CDs, and is a 10 time Critics Award winner.

Also active in contemporary music, after having earned six diplomas at the Milan Conservatory, he has composed symphonic works, operas and ballets for the La Scala Theatre and for many other major Italian venues. The flute works by Giorgio Gaslini, born in Milan in 1929, were composed between 1955 and 2011.

Their performer and dedicatee is Roberto Fabbriciani, with whom Gaslini has had a long collaboration.