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Tonino Miano
About Me
Terms like “dense lyricism” and “emotional impact” are used to describe the playing of Tonino
Miano.
While his analytical mind (he holds a degree in physics from the City College of New York)
parses logical
progressions for his improvisations, his artist's soul compelled one reviewer to call his work,
”Very
beautiful and very, very sophisticated.”
He has performed in venues such as Abrons Art Center, NYU, Knitting Factory, WKCR, 13in13
Jazz
Festival, Roulette, Binnenpret, Apollohuis, Stork Music Festival, Torino Jazz Festival and his list of
collaborations
include Brian
Groder, Mirio Cosottini, Andrea Melani, Dinu Ghezzo, Edoardo Marraffa, Frantz Loriot, Jaap Blonk,
Marco
Cappelli, Lorenzo Brusci, Alessio Pisani, Jim Pugliese, Francesco Cusa and Riccardo Grosso. He
also holds
a Degree in Musicology from the University of Bologna and a Degree in Classical Piano
Performance with
maximum honors from the V. Bellini Conservatory in Caltanissetta (Italy). He has also been the
co- curator
(with Frantz Loriot) of the AVANT POST, a New York monthly series dedicated to avant
garde/improvisational music hosted by Temple M.
Among Mr. Miano’s releases CARDINAL (Grimedia/Impressus, 2009) has received critical
acclaim and has
appeared in two European top ten lists, as well as being included in the list of most notable CDs
of the
decade by AllAboutJazz/Italia. Some of his projects are: FluiDensity, a collaboration with
trumpeter/composer Brian Groder, and The Inner Life of Residue with Mirio Cosottini, and
Human Pieces (with Cusa/Groder/Grosso) out on Leo Records. His latest two releases
are Strings Currents, a duo with guitarist Domenico Caliri and Luminary, in trio with Andrea
Melani on drums and Riccardo Grosso on double bass. Tonino Miano is also the author of
the highly praised Non-Tonal Technical Studies for Piano, a two-volume collection of pattern-
studies
deemed “Fascinating” by Stephen Hough, “Highly recommended” by Richie Beirach and hailed
by
International Piano Magazine as an “exhaustive, comprehensive and extraordinary labour of
love”.
He lives in Catania (Italy) after almost three decades in New York City.
