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Angiolo Tarocchi

About Me

I am a composer, arranger, conductor, double bass player, producer and educator. I studied composition at the Milano Conservatory with Franco Donatoni, electronic composition, attended jazz classes with Giorgio Gaslini and took a Specialist Certificate of Jazz Arranging at the Berklee College of Boston MA (USA), where I was awarded the “Herbie Hancock Celebrity Scholarship”.  In 2015 I founded my own Angiolo Tarocchi Jazz Orchestra, a large jazz ensemble focused on contemporary jazz. I founded the Jazz Chromatic Ensemble in 1989 of which he has been part as a composer, arranger and conductor ever since. I worked in the classic environment too with numerous chamber music ensembles that have commissioned compositions and arrangements of 20th century music performed in Italy and abroad. I also collaborated with the Teatro alla Scala of Milano.  As a double bass player I have been studying with Enrico Fagone (principal of the of the Lugano Italian Swiss Orchestra) and presently I am first double bass of the World Doctors Orchestra, in which I perform in some of the best concert halls around the world, among others the Berlin Phil, Severance Hall, Beijing Opera House.  Presently i am a teaching professor in Jazz Arranging at the Conservatory of Piacenza, Italy.

My Jazz Story

I have a classical and bluesy background. I was exposed to Jazz in the '70s by my first jazz teacher, Giorgio Gaslini. Arranging has been my early dream. The best orchestra show I ever attended was in Milan, in the '80s, the Sun Ra Arkestra!!! Wonderful music, dancers, fireworks and the audience completely mesmerized!