Roberto Rega

Studies

1981-1984 Music courses at “LAB2” Music Workshop (Rome) with Maestro Sandro Satta. Active member of Sandro Satta’s jazz workshop and harmony workshop. 1985 Music courses with maestro and jazz player Massimo Urbani. 1986- 1990 Followed 7-days seminars and workshops of American jazz players: Steve Grossman, David Liebman, George Garzone. 1995 Courses of electronic composition, digital composition and sound engineering.

Experience

As it would not be possible to retrace and include in this C. V. all my concerts, my collaborations and the places where I have performed since 1984, please find only a selection of main events:

August 1985 Performance at the International Jazz Club Hot Brass in Aix-en-Provence (Marseille) with BSAA Quintet.Thanks to our great success were offered a second date. The quintet was composed of: Roberto Rega:alto sax Marco Aglioti: trumpet Marco Omicini: piano Stefano Cesare: electric bass Roberto Altamura: drums

Winter 1986 Saxophonist in resident orchestra of TV Program Premiatissima (with Johnny Dorelli) on Canale 5/Fininvest Videotime Production.

4th May 1989 Live on Radio1 national broadcast: Evening Jazz. BSAA quintet and special guest American jazz player Tony Scott.

1989 Tourneè of concerts in various Italian cities (Perugia, Teramo, Pescara, Catanzaro…) with The Right View Jazz Sextet. Jazz Festival Rome with Oliver Bernay sextet, special guest Maurizio Urbani. 21th Oct 1991 Live on Rai3 television.Saxophone player in Woodie Shaw Memorial Band, special guest George Garzone (Alpheus, Rome).

1993 Festival “Jazz nellaValle” on Massimo Urbani’s death anniversary with Gianfranco Tedeschi on bass, Giampiero Silvestri on drums, Bruno Marinucci on guitar. Opened “Rome Jazz Festival” at Villa Celimontana in Rome, dedicated to Massimo Urbani.

1994 Founder member of the group Cyberfunk and composer of its music. During 1996 Various concerts in Rome with a Jazz Quartet (R.Rega, G.Tedeschi,L.Bernar,M.Scuderi) Among them: Alpheus, Teatro Maya, festival “Estate Musicale Romana”.

June- Sept 2000 Moved to Corsica (France). Founder member of the group Natural Music together with Tristan Loriaut e Laurent Cardoni. 20-concerts summer turneè in numerous Corsican clubs.

Dec 2000 Musical collaboration with arpist and sitarist Andrea Sechi. Recording and production of CD “Fairylands” elfic circle.

Mar-Nov 2001 Saxophonist in “La Calle de los Niños Orchestra” (Cuban Salsa). Summer tourneè in Viterbo and Rome, Participating to various cultural and musical festivals.

10 Febr 2001 Saxophonist at painter Paola Alviano-Glaviano showroom together with Laura Talluri’s contact dancers. (Goa-Rome)

july 2004 Special guest together with Tony Formichella for “Mauro Verrone Stabile Orchestra” (San Polo dei Cavalieri) Rome.

from 2002 to 2007 Moved to Scotland (Glasgow-Edinburgh) partecipating to various jazz concerts (Drum & monkey, Mc Chills jazz club, Black friars) playing with Ronnie Rae, Fionna Duncan, Jim Clelland, Paul Harrison, Robert Henderson, Ricky Taylor, June Love, Crawford McCallun, Lorna Brown etc.

Saxophonist for E.T.I (Ente Tabacchi Italia) National Convention. Alto saxophonist for Mauro Verrone StabileOrchestra (Bagnoregio-VT)

Alto saxophonist for Shorty’s Monday Nigh Orchestra with special guest the American trumpet player Eddie Henderson (from Herbie Hancock band).

Jazz festival in Sutri at “Anfiteatro Etrusco” Roberto Rega Marco Aglioti Quintet Paolo Tombolesi: piano Stefano Nunzi: double bass Andrea Nunzi: drums Jazz concert in Sutri - Chiesa San Francesco d'Assisi with the same band except Paolo Tombolesi.

Jazz concerts with Quadrangle Jazz Quartet in Rome and Viterbo province Roberto Rega: alto sax Federico Laterza: piano Stefano Cesare: bass Pietro Fumagalli :drums

Jazz Concert with Quadrangle Jazz Quartet at “Vieni in Provincia Festival” in Rome, Villa Borghese. Assistant at the stages at Ronciglione Jazz Festival with Shawn Monteiro, Kenny Barron, Bobby Durham, Wayne Dockery.

July-August 2005 Jazz Concert at Ronciglione jazz festival with special guest Bobby Durham (from Duke Ellington, Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson bands) on drums.

During the Ronciglione Jazz Festival he take part to the many jam session playng with Shawn Monteiro, Massimo Faraò, Stefano Di Battista, Bobby Durham, Archie Sheep, Flavio Boltro.

Additional information

Improvisation Arrangement In-depth jazz knowledge Experienced teacher (private tutor from 1988 onwards) In 2004 teacher,music workshop tutor and Big band "Rythm & Brass" director at “La Settima Nota” music school in Manziana (Rome) Good Reading

Compositions Cyberfunk “Take the B Train” (13 tracks) CD Production: Natural Music “Natural Music” (in collaboration with Tristan Loriaut); Elfic Circle “Fairylands” (in collaboration with Andrea Sechi); Cyberfunk “Take the B Train”. Elfic circle “A journey to other lands” Elfic circle “Arpe del Sidhe (2007) Show less