Claim: Mauro Cardi (born July 22, 1955, in Italy) is a composer and professor at the Alfredo Casella State Conservatoire of L'Aquila who represented Italy at the Darmstädter Ferienkurs  and won the second prize at the International Competition Gian Francesco Malipiero.
Evidence: Mauro Cardi (born July 22, 1955, in Rome, Italy) is an Italian composer. He has been professor at the Luigi Cherubini Firenze State Conservatoire, and he currently teaches at the Alfredo Casella State Conservatoire of L'Aquila. In 1984, he attended the Darmstädter Ferienkurse. In 1988, he won the second prize at the International Competition Gian Francesco Malipiero with In Corde, for orchestra.