Ugo Nastrucci is a composer, lutenist, theorbist, and recording artist. He studied Composition with Irlando Danieli and Giacomo Manzoni at the G. Verdi Conservatory of Milan. He studied lute with Massimo Lonardi, Paolo Chierici, and Hopkinson Smith, and conducting with Simone Fontanelli.

He was a founding member of many ensembles of Early Music, notably Ens. Pian E Forte, and collaborated with such ensembles as Il Conserto Vago, Lo Scrigno d’Orfeo, Europa Galante, Ensemble Arte-Musica, Capella Leopoldina, Alessandro Stradella Consort, Ensemble Zefiro, I Barocchisti, and Accademia del Ricercare.

He is the author of much incidental music for theatrical productions, orchestral, chamber and choral works, and serves as a professor of Composition at the Vittadini Music Institute of Pavia.