Roberto Doati was born in Genoa, Italy and studied electronic music and informatics with Albert Mayr, Pietro Grossi and Alvise Vidolin with whom he graduated. In 1979, he started his activity as a composer and researcher at the Centro di Sonologia Computazionale of University of Padua. From 1983 to 1993 he collaborated with Musical Informatics Laboratory of the Biennal of Venice.From 1988 to 1993 he taught Musical Informatics at the Scuola di Musicologia e Pedagogia Musicale of University of Macerata in Fermo. From 1996 to 1998 he periodically held courses and concerts in Argentina for the Institutes for Italian Culture of Buenos Aires and Cordoba. Doati is currently a teacher of Electronic Music and responsible for the School of Music and New Technologies at the Conservatory “Niccolò Paganini” in Genoa.
His work has won him international reviews, like the selection Opera Prima (Teatro La Fenice, 1981) with "Gioco di velocità per suoni sintetici" (recorded by Edipan). In 1992 he realized "Donna che si copre le orecchie per proteggersi dal rumore del tuono", a work for flute and synthetic sounds (recorded by Roberto Fabbriciani for Edipan and awarded by Ars Electronica, Linz) on request of Festival Spaziomusica. In occasion of the 46th International Festival of Contemporary Music (1995), Biennal of Venice commissioned to him a work for voice and electronics: "L’olio con cui si condiscono le parole. In 2001, he received a scholarship from the Rockefeller Foundation to compose "L’apparizione di tre rughe" for guitar, electronics and interactive system EyesWeb, recorded by Elena Casoli for Stradivarius. In 2002 La Fenice Theater presented at Malibran Theater “Per voce preparata”, mise-en-scene of works for solo voice or with videos and electronics among which his "Allegoria dell’opinione verbale" for actress, electronics and interactive system EyesWeb. In 2005 the American Foundation MacDowell gave him a grant to compose "Un avatar del diavolo,"a musical theater work on order of Biennal of Venice for Contemporary Music Festival.
