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Roberto Rega
About Me
Studies
1981-1984 Music courses at “LAB2” Music Workshop (Rome) with
Maestro Sandro Satta.
Active member of Sandro Satta’s jazz workshop and harmony workshop.
1985 Music courses with maestro and jazz player Massimo Urbani.
1986- 1990 Followed 7-days seminars and workshops of American
jazz players: Steve Grossman, David Liebman, George Garzone.
1995 Courses of electronic composition, digital composition and sound
engineering.
Experience
As it would not be possible to retrace and include in this C. V. all my
concerts, my collaborations and the places where I have performed since
1984, please find only a selection of
main events:
August 1985 Performance at the International Jazz Club Hot Brass in
Aix-en-Provence (Marseille) with
BSAA Quintet.Thanks to our great success were offered a second date.
The quintet was composed of:
Roberto Rega:alto sax
Marco Aglioti: trumpet
Marco Omicini: piano
Stefano Cesare: electric bass
Roberto Altamura: drums
Winter 1986 Saxophonist in resident orchestra of TV Program
Premiatissima (with Johnny Dorelli) on Canale 5/Fininvest Videotime
Production.
4th May 1989 Live on Radio1 national broadcast: Evening Jazz.
BSAA quintet and special guest American jazz player Tony Scott.
1989 Tourneè of concerts in various Italian cities (Perugia, Teramo,
Pescara, Catanzaro…) with The Right View Jazz Sextet. Jazz Festival
Rome with Oliver Bernay sextet, special guest Maurizio Urbani.
21th Oct 1991 Live on Rai3 television.Saxophone player in Woodie
Shaw Memorial Band, special guest George Garzone (Alpheus, Rome).
1993 Festival “Jazz nellaValle” on Massimo Urbani’s death anniversary
with Gianfranco Tedeschi on bass, Giampiero Silvestri on drums, Bruno
Marinucci on guitar.
Opened “Rome Jazz Festival” at Villa Celimontana in Rome, dedicated
to Massimo Urbani.
1994 Founder member of the group Cyberfunk and composer of its
music.
During 1996 Various concerts in Rome with a Jazz Quartet (R.Rega,
G.Tedeschi,L.Bernar,M.Scuderi)
Among them: Alpheus, Teatro Maya, festival “Estate Musicale Romana”.
June- Sept 2000 Moved to Corsica (France).
Founder member of the group Natural Music together with Tristan
Loriaut e Laurent Cardoni.
20-concerts summer turneè in numerous Corsican clubs.
Dec 2000 Musical collaboration with arpist and sitarist Andrea Sechi.
Recording and production of CD “Fairylands” elfic circle.
Mar-Nov 2001 Saxophonist in “La Calle de los Niños Orchestra”
(Cuban Salsa).
Summer tourneè in Viterbo and Rome,
Participating to various cultural and musical festivals.
10 Febr 2001 Saxophonist at painter Paola Alviano-Glaviano showroom
together with Laura Talluri’s contact dancers. (Goa-Rome)
july 2004 Special guest together with Tony Formichella for “Mauro
Verrone Stabile Orchestra” (San Polo dei Cavalieri) Rome.
from 2002 to 2007
Moved to Scotland (Glasgow-Edinburgh) partecipating to various jazz
concerts (Drum & monkey, Mc Chills jazz club, Black friars) playing with
Ronnie Rae, Fionna Duncan, Jim Clelland, Paul Harrison, Robert
Henderson, Ricky Taylor, June Love, Crawford McCallun, Lorna Brown
etc.
Saxophonist for E.T.I (Ente Tabacchi Italia) National Convention.
Alto saxophonist for Mauro Verrone StabileOrchestra (Bagnoregio-VT)
Alto saxophonist for Shorty’s Monday Nigh Orchestra with special guest
the American trumpet player Eddie Henderson (from Herbie Hancock
band).
Jazz festival in Sutri at “Anfiteatro Etrusco”
Roberto Rega Marco Aglioti Quintet
Paolo Tombolesi: piano
Stefano Nunzi: double bass
Andrea Nunzi: drums
Jazz concert in Sutri - Chiesa San Francesco d'Assisi with the same
band except Paolo Tombolesi.
Jazz concerts with Quadrangle Jazz Quartet in Rome and Viterbo
province
Roberto Rega: alto sax
Federico Laterza: piano
Stefano Cesare: bass
Pietro Fumagalli :drums
Jazz Concert with Quadrangle Jazz Quartet at “Vieni in Provincia
Festival” in Rome, Villa Borghese.
Assistant at the stages at Ronciglione Jazz Festival with Shawn
Monteiro, Kenny Barron, Bobby Durham, Wayne Dockery.
July-August 2005 Jazz Concert at Ronciglione jazz festival with special
guest Bobby Durham (from Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar
Peterson bands) on drums.
During the Ronciglione Jazz Festival he take part to the many jam
session playng with Shawn Monteiro, Massimo Faraò, Stefano Di
Battista, Bobby Durham, Archie Sheep, Flavio Boltro.
Additional information
Improvisation
Arrangement
In-depth jazz knowledge
Experienced teacher (private tutor from 1988 onwards)
In 2004 teacher,music workshop tutor and Big band “Rythm & Brass”
director at “La Settima Nota” music school in Manziana (Rome)
Good Reading
Compositions
Cyberfunk
“Take the B Train” (13 tracks)
CD Production:
Natural Music “Natural Music” (in collaboration with Tristan Loriaut);
Elfic Circle “Fairylands” (in collaboration with Andrea Sechi);
Cyberfunk
“Take the B Train”.
Elfic circle “A journey to other lands”
Elfic circle “Arpe del Sidhe (2007)
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