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Alessandro Sgobbio
Composer, pianist, producer Alessandro Sgobbio keeps expanding his personal vocabulary of compositions, improvisations and spiritual explorations throughout music. After earning Master Degrees at the Oslo Norwegian Music Academy and the Parma Music Conservatory, Alessandro Sgobbio has been voted one of the best new talents of the year at the “TopJazz” Italian Polls. He has released 15 albums as a leader / co-leader, performing across Europe, Scandinavia, UK, China and the USA as a soloist, duo with renowned artists Amal Murkus, Senny Camara, Michele Rabbia and Christophe Marguet – and also his quartets Silent Fires and Hitra. All his recent releases have been albums of the year / month on Musica Jazz, Europe Jazz Network, Il Manifesto, Revista Jazz, Jazzism and many international press outlets. His latest solo album is “Piano Music 3” (2025) for piano & live electronics.
Awards
1st Prize Umbria Jazz Festival (Perugia, IT)
1st Prize Padova Carrarese (Padova, IT)
2nd Prize Luca Flores Solo Competition (Florence, IT)
Selection Martial Solal Piano Competition (Paris, FR)
Best Album of The Year Jazzism Magazine (2022, NL)
Top5 Albums of The Year Il Manifesto (2023, IT)
Musica Jazz (IT) TopJazz 2023 – Best Album of The Year Toplist
Musica Jazz (IT) TopJazz 2023 – Best New Talent Toplist
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Alessandro Sgobbio: Piano Music 3
by Angelo Leonardi
Nel terzo album d'esplorazioni pianistiche in solo, Alessandro Sgobbio mostra di non aver esaurito la vena creativa dimostrata negli altri due: Piano Music del 2022 e Piano Music 2 dell'anno successivo. Anche il lavoro attuale è pubblicato dall'etichetta norvegese Amp Music & Records e registrato allo studio Artesuono di Stefano Amerio, usando un meraviglioso pianoforte Fazioli F278. Dopo i molti riconoscimenti, Sgobbio s'è distinto come leader o co-leader di progetti significativi in vari contesti europei: quelli italo-scandinavi Silent ...
Continue ReadingAlessandro Sgobbio: Piano Music 2
by Neri Pollastri
A un anno di distanza dal suo Piano Music, Alessandro Sgobbio fa uscire il secondo volume, Piano Music 2, che si differenzia dal precedente essenzialmente per l'uso, assieme al pianoforte, del live electronics. Registrato come l'altro negli studi Artesuono di Stefano Amerio, il disco è piuttosto breve, neppure trentacinque minuti, ed è diviso in nove tracce. Anche stavolta non mancano le dediche: le due parti di “Asker" al pianista Misha Alperin, già maestro e amico di Sgobbio, che ...
Continue ReadingAlessandro Sgobbio: Piano 2
by Dan McClenaghan
Italian pianist Alessandro Sgobbio strikes a pensive pose on the cover of his solo album Piano 2, presenting an introductory visual of his art. The pianist's photo portrait on his previous 2022 AMP Music & Recording release Piano (review here) did the same--a serious expression conveying an inward mood, indicating a measured and reflective approach to the instrument. On both recordings, that is what we get. The difference: Piano Music is piano only; Piano 2 features the addition of live ...
Continue ReadingAlessandro Sgobbio: Piano Music
by Neri Pollastri
Messosi in luce con progetti come Pericopes+1, Hitra e il trio Feed di Mauro Gargano, sperimentali, dal forte dinamismo e nei quali utilizzava anche tastiere elettroniche, il pianista pugliese residente a Parigi Alessandro Sgobbio presenta adesso un album in piano solo, dal gusto più tradizionale e nel quale mostra pienamente il suo lato lirico. Piano Music si articola su nove brani, alcuni parte del programma dei concerti in solitudine fatti da Sgobbio nel corso degli anni, altri scritti ...
Continue ReadingAlessandro Sgobbio: Piano Music
by Dan McClenaghan
We ask our artists to give us something of themselves. The solo piano format is a superior way to do this--the musican alone at the piano, no collaboration; and Italian composer/pianist Alessandro Sgobbio presents the essence of his being with his first solo recording, Piano Music. The music is a diary of Sgobbio's experiences and influences--his parents and his mentor, Atma Mater, among other things. The artistry presented gives us a look into the artist's soul, his playing ...
Continue ReadingMauro Gargano: Feed
by Neri Pollastri
A pochi mesi dall'uscita del ben diverso Nuages, il contrabbassista Mauro Gargano affronta a proprio modo il piano trio, scegliendo come partner un altro italiano che, come lui, vive e lavora in Francia, il pianista Alessandro Sgobbio—membro anche degli eccellenti Pericopes ed Hitra—e un grande della batteria d'oltralpe qual è Christophe Marguet—collaboratore tra gli altri di Louis Sclavis ed Henry Texier—e con loro affrontando un repertorio originale, tutto della sua penna. Come ci spiega anche in una recente ...
Continue ReadingHilmar Jensson: Transparence
by Mike Jurkovic
Given that not one of the eight tracks definingTransparence, the darkly compelling debut from Norway's Hitra, runs longer than six minutes, the quartet covers a lot of ground. Like a ticket out of isolation, Transparence transports your homebound head to the grey expanse of Northern Atlantic skies. Billowing by design, their clouds of music make you feel like you're floating above rain shadows and fjords. Bonding together at Oslo's Norwegian Academy of Music, Hitra pairs Italian pianist Alessandro ...
Continue ReadingAlessandro Sgobbio Releases 'Piano Music 2' - An Intimate Collection Of Dedications For Piano And Live Electronics
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Alessandro Sgobbio
Piano Music 2 (2023) is Alessandro Sgobbio’s follow-up to his acclaimed Piano Music (2022). The Italian pianist and composer presents nine new intimate compositions, each of them dedicated to a person, place or topic that have a special meaning and importance to him. The album is a meditative sound experience that invites the listeners to actively reconnect with the powerful meanings of natural and spiritual elements (“Modular Circles”, “The River”, “Tula”, ”Einhausung”), finding inspirations from special historical episodes of cities ...
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AN AUTHENTIC ARTISTIC TRIUMPH. A NEW STAR SHINES IN THE FIRMAMENT OF ITALIAN JAZZ.
MUSICA JAZZ - IT
SGOBBIO IS A POET OF RANK AND AN EXCEPTIONALLY SKILLED PIANIST.
SALT PEANUTS - NO
FASCINATING COMPOSITIONS. REGULAR IRREGULARITY.
JAZZ’N’MORE - CH
MODERN JAZZ THAT’S HEAVY ON INTELLIGENT MELODY AND SPIRITED IMPROVISATION.
DOWNBEAT - USA
A perfect fusion of contemporary acidifications and North-European melodic masses. Alceste Ayroldi (Musica Jazz Magazine – IT) This is music with a great sense of musicality and sophistication
Primary Instrument
Piano
Location
Paris
Willing to teach
Intermediate to advanced
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