Results for "Milan"

Lorenzo De Finti

Born: February 5, 1975

Lorenzo began playing the piano at the age of five and began playing in public at the age of eleven. He began his formal studies under the guidance of Maestro Remo Gelmini and completed his studies under Maestro Alberto Colombo at the Conservatory Giuseppe Verdi of Milan. Lorenzo also completed his studies in traditional composition and was given the opportunity to delve into jazz improvisation with world renowned Maestro Sante Palumbo and Gil Goldstein at the “Jazz and Rock Inc.” in Monaco, Germany and Berklee College of Music in Boston. With his outstanding technique and artistic expression, Lorenzo was immediately recognized by the media and began playing some of the most important musical venues in Europe. Specialized in jazz and contemporary music, Lorenzo has travelled back and forth from Europe to the United States, collaborating with important musicians such as J

Francesco Forges

Born: December 25, 1961

Singer, composer and flutist, was born in 1961 in Milan, Italy, where he still lives.

Graduate at the Conservatoire “G. Verdi” (Milan, Italy), he was formed and matured in different musical areas as progressive rock, jazz, opera, ancient and contemporary music.

He dedicated himself to jazz and vocal improvisation studies, with artists such as: Maggie Nicols, Bob Stoloff, Jay Clayton, André Minvielle, Fabrizio Cassol.

He worked also as a socio-educationalist, singing teacher and chorister.

His eclecticism has led him to collaborate, among others with: Zètema Orchestra (with Steve Lacy, Glenn Ferris, Gianluigi Trovesi, Paolo Fresu), Cantosospeso Choir (with Nana Vasconcelos, Miriam Makeba), Bruno Tommaso, Gianni Lenoci, Ferdinando Faraò & Artchipel Orchestra (also with Mike & Kate Westbrook), Micrologus Ensemble, Chorus of the Teatro Regio in Turin (under the direction, among others, of Semyon Bichkov, Pinchas Steinberg), Athestis Chorus (under the direction, among others, of Myun Wun Chung, Jeffrey Tate), Teatro alla Scala (Milan), Teatro La Fenice (Venice), Piccolo Teatro (Milan).

tommaso cecere

Born: April 29, 1954

My Biography can be viewd on Starnow.com Tommaso Cecere.

matteo ravelli

Born: May 3, 1985

I've been studying drums since i was 14, playing on my bed listening to led zeppelin, toto and nirvana. Then i started studying with a local teacher, then i went to milan's cpm and accademia del suono schools and now i'm studying jazz in milan at the the claudio abbado music school under teacher tony arco. I've been playing live for 15 years now, mainly rock, progressive rock, aor, hard and heavy; my main band is king bong, an instrumental psychedelic trio but i'm doing a lot of gigs with my hammond trio pu.ra.ca. playing standards and wes montgomery songs from his hammond trio period. I also play piano, bass and sing and i'm a sound engineer with my own home studio so i've recorded a bunch of albums alone playing all instruments in various genres, from post-hardcore to ambient music.

Javier Perez Forte

Born: February 9, 1960

Argentine guitarist, composer and arranger, he has studied to the Universdad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), then he specialized himself in Paris and Italy with Ivo Malec, Pierre Boulez, Ennio Morricone among the others. The record label Nuova Fonit Cetra-RAI has published his chamber music in the CD Atmospheres and the Sonzogno publisher edited his compositions for orchestra. He has composed for the singer Lucia Minetti the music of Luz!, a song that gives the name to the homonymous CD (Velut Luna Records). He has accomplished all the tango- arrangements for the Mario Brunello's Orchestra d’archi italiana and he has participated as a soloist player in this project.
 He has has collaborated with many directors and actors and composed music for cinema, for theater and for documentaries for several institutions (Regione Lombardia, Ministero della Pubblica Istruzione, Istituto di Antropologia di Milano, Istituto Politecnico di Milano, etc

Giuliano Ligabue

Born: September 9

Giuliano Ligabue is an Italian crooner, guitarist, arranger, and composer. With over 10 million streams across major digital platforms, his music reaches listeners worldwide, and his voice has often been compared to Michael Bublé and Frank Sinatra. He is also a virtuoso of jazz-swing guitar, one of the few musicians in Italy to play a seven-string guitar, earning recognition from international artists such as Bucky and John Pizzarelli.

He released several albums, EPs, and singles: Swing Affair (2013) with his own drumless trio to honor the musical style of Nat King Cole, Live at Summertime in Jazz (2016) recorded live with his Swing Band, Ci Può Stare (2019) which includes original songs in Italian language and international hits expertly arranged by Giuliano, This Happy Rhythm (Ep 2020) with guest saxophonist Mattia Cigalini. In 2021 he released various singles that anticipate the release of the new album. Timeless (2022), has received over two million streams on Spotify just a few months after its release. His single Come Fly With Me (2024) has reached 7 million views on TikTok, further establishing him as a prominent interpreter of the Great American Songbook.

Gabriele Bulfon

Born: May 5, 1970

Started classical piano training at 7, then later moved my interests into modern Jazz and Fusion, taking private lessons from various jazz masters, expecially Alan Pasqua, Otmaro Ruiz and Massimo Colombo.

I compose music of my own, with no specific genre in mind.

My latest official project is Quantum Mechanics, featuring Walter Calloni, Stefano Bagnoli, Andrea Bruzzone and Franco Avalli.
It's available both in streaming, digital and CD format.

Tiziano Tononi

Born: November 18, 1956

Born in Milano on November 18th 1956, starts playing in rock bands and gets closer to jazz since the mid-seventies. In 1978 meets american percussionist Andrew Cyrille with whom starts studying in New York and subsequently in Europe. In 1979 enrolls the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano, studying classical percussion under David Lee Searcy, principal tympanist at the Teatro alla Scala, Milano. In that same year returns to New York to study with Bob Moses, and founds the group Nexus with saxophonist Daniele Cavallanti. Gets known with Nexus, in Italy first and then in Europe, through concerts and festivals appearances: Milano, Cagliari, Clusone, Bolzano, Noci, Le Mans, Koln, Moers, Vienna, Vilshofen, Opeye, Mulhouse, Verona, Saarbrucken-St.Ingbert, Gent, Tampere, S.AnnaArresi, Amsterdam, Rotterdam, Vancouver, Istanbul.

Joyce E. Yuille

Joyce Yuille has had a pretty interesting life in which music has played a major part in someway. Starting as a runway model she eventually found her true path…The union between her soul and God given talent as a singer. Joyce has had the chance to work with many well-known Italian and international artists such as Paolo Conte, Randy Crawford, Donna Summer, Laura Pausini, Elio e Le Storie Tese, Andrea Mingardi, The Blues Bros. Band, Eddie Floyd, Ronan Keating, Sister Sledge and renown disco diva Gloria Gaynor with whom she has had a continuous role as a backing singer during her Italian and European performances

Mirko Fait

Born: June 3, 1965

Mirko Fait, Italian, was born in Milan on 3rd June 1965 in a family of artists. Mirko started playing the guitar at a young age, from the early 1970s, but it was only later that he realised that his cultural ground was jazz music. This is why in the 1990s he chose the contralto saxophone. He started his studies in Bergamo with Alberto Nacci, moving back to Milan he continued studying the tenor saxophone with the maestro Michele Bozza, with Giulio Visibelli and Emanuele Cisi at the centre “Civica di jazz” run by Franco Cerri and Enrico Intra, until his last lessons with the American Michael Rosen.

He played straight away in different bands and he performed from the very first years also in jam sessions and with various jazz groups in a few Milanese clubs (Capolinea, Scimmie, Tangram, Aquatica, Mirasol, le Trottoir, Ittolittos, Ca’Bianca, Santa Tecla).

In January 2002, with the Cuban trumpet player and pianist Gendrickson Mena Diaz, he was asked to play for a renowned stylist group at the Pitti Uomo club and in 2003 he founded the jazz band Five for you