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MATTEO FRABONI
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Born on october 15th, 1983, MATTEO FRABONI is one of the most
talented drummer and italian composers come out from today's
international but also european jazz scene. Began on piano then on
drums as a self-taught musician at a young age, he became fond of jazz
attended the most prestigious schools in Italy: Berklee College of Music
in Perugia (2002), Music Masterclasses Città di Castello (2003), with
Maurizio Giammarco, Fabio Zeppetella, Massimo Moriconi, Umberto
Fiorentino e John Arnolds. He studied with the pianist and composer
Ramberto Ciammarughi, Massimo Manzi and Fabrizio Sferra. In Cuba
he studied the foundations of Cuban music with the great Maestro Josè
Luis Quintana “Changuito”, who was awarded two “Latin Grammy
Awards”, in 2001. He studied the foundations of traditional Indian music
with Maestro Aky Montoya from Berlin (2003) during the jazz workshops
organized by the pianist Giovanni Ceccarelli. He goes further in the
study of Brazilian music with the brazilian drummer Natalio Alvès De
Oliveiras (2004). He attends the masterclasses with Bill Stewart, Peter
Erskine, Mat Wilson, Roberto Gatto, Christian Meyer, O.Hernandez,
Paolo Pellegatti, Ron Savage, Tullio De Piscopo, Ellade Bandini, Franco
D’Andrea, Seamous Blake, Brian Blade, etc. In New York he takes
private lessons from Gene Jackson, Ari Hoening, Dan Weiss e Nat
Smith (2009). In dicember 2009 he makes a journey to Senegal, where
he studies African Polyrhythms with the griot Mamadou Diouf. In 2008
he takes part in the summer workshop at Siena Jazz Foundation (3rd
grade - highest level) where he is selected for the “Permanent workshop
of music research” run by Maestro Stefano Battaglia (ECM). He studied
Composition and Arrangement at Conservatorio Rossini in Pesaro
where he wrote a short thesis about Traditional African Music and
Polyrhythm for the examination of Afroamerican History with Maestro
Stefano Zenni, which granted him honours degree . He is a graduate at
Conservatorio G.B.Martini in Bologna. He has played with Aruan Ortiz,
Franco D’Andrea, Fabio Zeppetella, Dario Deidda, Bruno Tommaso,
Barend Middelhoff, Antonio Zambrini, Tino Tracanna, Reverend Lee
Brown, Simone Zanchini, Giovanni Maier, Stefano Battaglia, George
Garzone, Riccardo Del Fra and many other musicians and played at
several jazz festivals and clubs, like: Alexander Platz (ROME), Chet
Baker (BO), Il Posto (BO), Le Scimmie (MI), Zingarò Jazz Club,
Lascensore Jazz Club (AN), Pescara Jazz, Siena Jazz, Ancona Jazz,
Pesaro Jazz Village, 7 giorni in Jazz(AN), Bordighera Jazz, The Hague
Jazz.
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