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Eleonora Strino
Eleonora Strino is recognized by critics as one of the most promising young talents in the international jazz scene.
The international jazz magazine “Jazz Guitar Today” featured her on the cover of its February 2020 issue, following features dedicated to musicians of the caliber of Peter Bernstein, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Scofield, and other great guitarists of the current scene.
On March ’23, her educational book ‘Bebop Scales for Jazz Guitar’ was released worldwide. It was published by music educator ‘Fundamental Changes’ which Amazon describes as “the most important independent music publisher in the world.”
In May 2023, her first album as a bandleader was released, recorded live in Berlin in November 2021, alongside two jazz legends: Greg Cohen on double bass and Joey Baron on drums. The album is titled ‘I Got Strings’ and was produced by the renowned Italian record label Cam Jazz.
She presented the album at the Blue Note in Milan as a trio with Jason Brown and Darhyl Hall.
Eleonora has numerous collaborations with some of the best jazz musicians and maintains an active international concert schedule. She has toured and conducted masterclasses in Brazil, the Canary Islands, North America, Europe, and all Europe.
She is a permanent member of Dado Moroni’s quartet, produced by Auditorium Rai; Emanuele Cisi’s quartet with actor Filippo Timi, produced by Warner Bros; Greg Cohen’s trio; and the group “The Great Guitarist” alongside Ulf Wakenius and Martin Taylor. (The group was founded in ’73 by Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd, and Herb Ellis, and she is the first woman to be part of it).
In addition to her performing career, she is actively involved in teaching. She has conducted workshops and seminars at the Conservatory of San Salvador in Brazil, Hemu (Conservatory of Lausanne) in Switzerland, Conservatoire Pierre Cochereau in Nice, France, the Conservatory of Tirana in Albania, and the Taller de Músics Conservatory in Barcelona.
Currently, she serves as a jazz guitar Professor at the Conservatory of Cosenza.
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Eleonora Strino: Lumithia
by Marco Iacoboni
Ci sono dischi che si ascoltano e altri che si lasciano abitare, come Lumithia, il nuovo lavoro di Eleonora Strino. Tredici brani, il suono di una sola chitarra. Nessuna sovraincisione. Se l'album precedente, Matilde (CAM Jazz, 2025), in quartetto, apriva il percorso della Strino come compositrice, Lumithia ne rappresenta l'approdo più intimo. Tredici brani, una sola chitarra, nessuna sovraincisione: la chitarrista napoletana si rivela in un recital solistico che è insieme confessione personale, omaggio alla madre e viaggio ...
Continue ReadingEleonora Strino: franchezza, istinto e introspezione
by Marco Iacoboni
Reduce da concerti in Italia e all'estero, con alle spalle un tour americano accolto con entusiasmo e tre lavori che ne segnano con chiarezza l'evoluzione artistica--I Got Strings (CAM Jazz, 2023), Matilde (CAM Jazz, 2025) e il più recente Lumithia (CAM Jazz, 2026)--Eleonora Strino attraversa una fase intensa del proprio percorso artistico. Dalla scrittura alla dimensione solistica, dal rapporto con la tradizione jazzistica alla ricerca di una voce personale, fino al tema dell'essere donna nel jazz e all'esperienza americana, in ...
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Eleonora Strino Quartet: Matilde
by Alberto Bazzurro
Se cercate un disco “bello senz'anima" (fin dalla copertina, funzionale nonché sufficientemente ammiccante), con questo Matilde l'avete trovato. Vi agisce un quartetto con dentro almeno due elementi di vaglia (Corini e De Rossi) capitanato dalla chitarrista napoletana Eleonora Strino, attraverso otto brani tutti della leader (in un caso in comproprietà col pianista Vignali) a loro volta funzionali e ammiccanti quanto basta, nel senso che toccano corde che ogni ascoltatore avvertirà come sufficientemente familiari da farlo sentire a proprio agio, che ...
Continue ReadingEleonora Strino: Matilde
by Brian Morton
There isn't much training around for young arts interviewers, but one bit of advice that is usually thrown out is never to ask “Where do you get your ideas?" It's a seemingly banal question that can only attract banal--and sometimes very sarcastic--answers. And yet sometimes, in context, it's exactly the right question to ask. More often than one might expect, novelists, poets, and musicians are more than happy to say that the new body of work being considered began in ...
Continue ReadingEleonora Strino Trio at the Garda Jazz Festival 2024
by Danilo Codazzi
A collection of photos from the Eleonora Strino Trio concert at Hotel du Lac et du Parc Grand Resosrt in Riva del Garda, Italy, on August 2, 2024 featuring Eleonora Strino, Giulio Corini and Zeno de Rossi. ...
Continue ReadingEleonora Strino: Leading The Way
by Ian Patterson
Any young person who dreams of becoming a jazz musician surely imagines the romance of a bohemian life spent traveling the world, playing to appreciative audiences. But it is not an easy career path. It requires complete dedication and many years of study and practice. The economics are hardly enticing either. And life on the road, for weeks or months at a time, is not for everyone. Eleonora Strino knew she wanted to be a jazz guitarist when ...
Continue ReadingEleonora Strino: I Got Strings
by Ian Patterson
There comes a before-and-after moment in any jazz musician's career with their first album as a leader. For Neapolitan guitarist Elenora Strino, I Got Strings marks a transition of sorts, from band member on the projects of pianist Dado Moroni and saxophonist Emanuele Cisi, to headline grabber in her own right. In fairness, Strino has led her own trios since 2016, but it usually takes the solid currency of one's own album to make the wider world sit up and ...
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