alto, soprano & baritone saxophones, live-electronics, bagpipe.
Italian musician living and working in the Netherlands. Born in Calabria (South Italy) he began the study of the saxophone with private lessons. At 18 y.o. he moved to Bologna where he studied the saxophone with Achille Succi and Edoardo Marraffa. He attended the summer seminars of Siena Jazz, Roccella Jonica, Nuoro Jazz where he won a scholarship. Interested in any kind of music he plays rock, jazz, funk and folk. Graduated in ethnomusicology at D.A.M.S. he took a Master Degree in Jazz at the Conservatory of Bologna studing with Barend Middelhof. His love for music and his fascination for computers let him to work on digital sound processing, mainly for visual art and video. In 2005 he won the Iceberg Festival, young artists prize in Bologna, playing with the piano player Alberto Fiori. He composes for and plays the baritone saxophone in Comanda Barabba, a modern jazz quintet which reached a great success of critics with it’s CD Live in Rome recorded in Radio 3 studios, the Italian National Broadcast. Whith EL, a quartet with Alberto Fiori, Francesco Guerri and Giovanni Falvo, realises Electric Leak co-produced with Santarcangelo dei Teatri and Ortosonico. Founder ot the association GNU with wich they organize and perform free-improvisation jam sessions with the aim to keep in touch with musicians from different backgrounds with a social and musical point of view. Performs with the painter Paolo Parisi in an action painting called Tranepainting, a quartet for jazz trio and brushes.
He played with:
Fabrizio Puglisi, Edoardo Marraffa, Alberto Capelli, Thollem Mc Donas, Tristan Honsinger, Louis Barnes, Lullo Mosso, Giovanni Majer, Scott Rosenberg, Teatrino Clandestino, Hannah Marshall, Garrison Fewell, Domenico Caliri, Irian Lopez Rodriguez, Raoul Van der Weide, Wim Jannsen, Frank van Bommel, Felicity Provan, Joost Buis, John Dikeman.
Workshops and masterclasses with:
William Parker, Anthony Braxton, Roscoe Mitchell, Muhall R. Abrahams, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Egberto Gismonti, Francois Jeanneau, Rob Brown, Javier Girotto, Michel Godard, Chris Speed, John Surman, Rabih Abu Kahlil, Barre Phillips.
Music for theatre, performances and multimedia:
- Performs with the painter Paolo Parisi in an action painting called Tranepainting.
- He wrote the music for the video Delle acque del Garda by Pierpaolo and Christian Ferlaino for Festival della Lettura in Riva del Garda.
- He edited the music for the short movie Olive and La distrazione, both by P. Ferlaino and C. Metallo, and for Rotzuma 2 by Kioshi Takeuda.
- Edited music for theatre, in kid’s shows La favola delle tre melarance & Per, directed by Livia Gionfrida.
DISCOGRAFY:
- Musicae Manent (F&F 001 – 2005)
- Comanda Barabba Live in Rome co-produced with Rai Radio3 (Bassesferec – BS010 – 2006)
- Gnu Open Session Recordings vol 1 (Setola di Maiale – double CD, sdm1280/1290 – 2008)
- EL – Electric Leak (EL 001 – 2010)