Ivan Valentini

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Graduated in Saxophone and Jazz Music, he has had some of his most significant study experiences with Joe Henderson, Steve Lacy, David Liebman, Lee Konitz, Bruno Tommaso, and Enrico Rava. Particularly important were the years of study with Franco D'Andrea. Since the early 1990s, he has led groups and projects presenting original music, operating within the realm of improvised music and interaction with other expressive forms. He has performed, among others, with Franco D’Andrea, Steve Bernstein, Enrico Rava, Roberto Dani, Luca Perciballi, Tito Mangialajo, Giancarlo Bianchetti, Achille Succi, Antonello Salis, Michele Francesconi, Attilio Zanchi, Simone Guiducci, Massimo Manzi, Enrico Merlin, Paolo Botti, Alberto Capelli. He has also played in orchestras led by Henry Threadgill, Mathias Ruegg, and Bruno Tommaso. In the early 1990s, he accompanied singer-songwriter Vinicio Capossela.During the 1990s, he collaborated with American dancer and choreographer Teri Weikel, for whom he composed the music for Il Maestro e Margherita (with Antonello Salis), Atomi, Le città invisibili, Le ali dei sassi, and with whom he performed various improvised solo sax and dance performances. Since 1987, he has regularly performed music and poetry, working mainly with Alberto Bertoni and Enrico Trebbi, and occasionally with Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Gaspare Bernardi, Laura Betti, Maurizio Cucchi, Giovanni Giudici, Gianni D’Elia, Giancarlo Sissa, and Emilio Rentocchini. He has collaborated with painters Carlo Cremaschi, André Che Isse, and Stefano Ricci. In 1996, his piece Paz was included in the CD-ROM Andrea Pazienza: L’antologia illimitata, a complete anthology of the artist’s work. Since 1999, he collaborated for several years with Franco D’Andrea on the Eleven project. From 2000, he was a long-time member of Giorgio Casadei’s Orchestra Spaziale, which, through projects like Orchestra Spaziale meets Zappafrank, Revolver, Visita a casa Beatles, and Holiday in Cartoonia, took part in festivals and live radio performances. Since 2008, he has been a member of the group Cantodiscanto.In April 2008, leading his quintet, he presented compositions from the album Light and Darkness at University Hall in Beijing. Among the festivals and events he has participated in: Jazz at the Rock, Imola – Festival Musica ‘900, Trento – Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, Rimini – Itinerari Jazz, Trento – RomaPoesia in Campidoglio, Rome – Rovereto Jazz – Merano Jazz – Di Nuovo Musica, Reggio Emilia – Metastasio Jazz, Prato – Termoli Jazz – Ah-Um Jazz Festival, Milan – Festival Angelica, Bologna – Crossroads, Emilia Romagna – Carpino Folk Festival – Isole che parlano, Sardinia – Folkfest, Spilimbergo – Musica per Roma – Non Sole Jazz, Trentino – Ambria Jazz – Poesiafestival, Modena. Essential discography: In his own name: 1992 “Paz” (Splasc(h) records) 1993 “Senza famiglia” (Modern times) 2004 “Slanting” (Splasc(h)records) 2007 “Il Teatro Impossibile” (Real Music) 2008 “Light and Darkness” (Real Music) 2016 “Rust & Blue” (self-produced) 2017 “Dripping sound” (self-produced) 2026 “Camera Funky” (CoseSonore) Blankrooms: 2026 “Look at something closely” (jazz’halo” With Luca Perciballi (The Black Box Theory): 2018 The Black Box Theory (Setola di Maiale) 2022 Room Music (Flyng Robert) 2025 Un Lieu (Jazz’halo) With poets Alberto Bertoni e Enrico Trebbi: 1997 “La casa azzurra” (Moby Dick) 2002 “Viaggi” (Arx-collana) 2012 “I giorni assenti” (Moby Dick) (plus Michele Francesconi) 2019 Fumàna (Setola di Maiale) (plus Luca Perciballi) With Franco D'Andrea: 1999 “Eleven” (Philology) 2000”Combinazione Uno” (Via Veneto Jazz) With Cantodiscanto: 2010 “Tutto il mondo è paese”(Materiali sonori) 2014 “Todo el mundo a cantar”(Materiali sonori) 2022 ”Pandemusica” (Visagemusic) With Orchestra Spaziale: 2013 “Orchestra Spaziale meets Zappafrank” (A simple lunch)