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Francesco Ciniglio

Born in Naples (Italy) in 1989, Francesco Ciniglio started playing the drums at age 6 under the tutelage of Maestro Sergio Di Natale. After moving to New York in 2010, he studied with Greg Hutchinson, John Patitucci and Fred Hersch and shared the stage with Aaron Parks, Shai Maestro, Dayna Stephens, Joe Sanders, Charles Altura, Donny McCaslin, Scott Colley, Sheila Jordan, John Ellis, Peter Slavov, Mark Sherman, Vincent Gardner, Wayne Tucker, Alan Hampton, Harish Raghavan, Ari Roland, Mike Karn and Cyrille Aimee to mention some. He graduated in Jazz at the City College of New York in May 2014 and now is a touring musician based in New York/Rome.

Awards

1st Place at Premio Nazionale delle Arti. Scholarship for Berklee at Berklee Clinics at Umbria Jazz. Award Group of Umbria Jazz 2009/2010.

Gear

Gretsch Round Badge Handmade cymbals + vintage cymbals

Rasmus Sørensen: At The Right Time

Read "At The Right Time" reviewed by Konstantin Rega

by Konstantin Rega
November 15, 2024

Danish-born, New York-based pianist Rasmus Sørensen finds melody as well as fluidity in At The Right Time. This rising jazz star stands alongside other young musicians like Joey Alexander and Fergus McCreadie, exhibiting his ability to craft pieces that have a generous listenability matched by a sophisticated musicality in more freestyle sections. With this release, Sørensen showcases 12 diverse and original compositions with the talented help of Jon Henriksson on double bass and Francesco Ciniglio on drums. Unlike ...

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Kasperi Sarikoski: Three Plus One

Read "Three Plus One" reviewed by Friedrich Kunzmann

by Friedrich Kunzmann
December 10, 2020

The trombone seems to be going through somewhat of a renaissance in 2020. That's only if a period when albums such as Grachan Moncur III's Some Other Stuff (Blue Note, 1965) were released can be considered the instrument's heyday in jazz. But fresh Norwegian input--captured on Oyvind Braekke's sextet release Wilderness (Oslo Recording Sessions, 2020)--graced the early spring of 2020, and New York-based trombonist Nick Finzer followed with a similar sextet concept, revealing another highlight of the year in the ...

Primary Instrument

Drums

Location

Rome

Willing to teach

Advanced only

Credentials/Background

I love teaching to young and old - whoever wants to dig deep into the world of jazz drumming and at the same time into developing a personal language out of that.