Gabriele Manca studied piano under Bruno Canino and composition under Giacomo Manzoni at the Conservatory in Milan. He won the prize “Musica nel nostro tempoCasa RICORDI”, the prize “Neue Generation in Europa”, WDR (Köln), Biennale Musica (Venice), Festival d’Automne (Paris) for the European Year of Music. In 2000, he obtained the Japan Foundation Uchida Fellowship, thanks to which he was able to work on the music for Noh Theatre at the Toho Gakuen University.