The Italian Cultural Institute of Sydney is proud to present Rita Marcotulli, Mirko Guerrini & Michelangelo Scandroglio in Koinè: A Shared Language.
Experience an exceptional evening with Italian pianist Rita Marcotulli, performing in Australia for the first time. Renowned for her profound sensitivity and inventive spirit, Marcotulli leads a dynamic jazz trio with internationally acclaimed Italian-Australian saxophonist Mirko Guerrini and the Italian double bassist Michelangelo Scandroglio, a rising star with a vibrant, modern approach to jazz. traduci
Rita Marcotulli born in Rome, Marcotulli is the daughter of a sound engineer who collaborated with Nino Rota and Ennio Morricone, among others. She began playing the piano at the age of five and graduated with a degree in classical music from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. Marcotulli began her professional career in the early 1980s and made her first recording in 1984. Thanks to a series of prestigious collaborations, including those with Richard Galliano, Chet Baker, Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, Peter Erskine, and Steve Grossman, in a few years she established herself as a significant figure in the contemporary jazz scene. In 1987, Marcotulli was nominated for the Best Young Talent Award in the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. In 1988, she toured the U.S. and Europe with Billy Cobham, also appearing on Cobham’s album Incoming. In 1996, she duetted with Pat Metheny at the Sanremo Music Festival. She has also had a long-term musical relationship with Dewey Redman. Marcotulli’s style largely relies on improvisation, and her influences include Brazilian, African, and Indian music. Also active as a composer of incidental music and musical scores for films, in 2010 Marcotulli won the David di Donatello for Best Score as well as the Ciak d’oro and the Nastro d’Argento in the same category for the score of Rocco Papaleo’s Basilicata Coast to Coast.
Mirko Guerrini was born in Florence in 1973. He studied piano, saxophone, classical composition and jazz music at the Cherubini Conservatorium in Florence, as well as jazz saxophone with Dave Liebman in New York. Award-winning, eclectic and multi-instrumentalist, composer and conductor, he has 21 albums to his credit as a solo saxophonist and leader of jazz ensembles. He currently leads the Mirko Guerrini Horizontal Quartet (Andrea Keller, Tamara Murphy and Niko Schäuble) and is co-leader of the acclaimed group Torrio! with Paul Grabowsky and Niko Schäuble. Guerrini has performed with Billy Cobham, Caetano Veloso, Stefano Bollani, Enrico Rava, Peter Erskine, John Taylor, Paul McCandless, etc. As an educator, Guerrini is an Adjunct Fellow and Teaching Associate at Monash University, and an adjunct teacher at Melbourne University. He also teaches saxophone and clarinet and directs Big Bands of all levels at various colleges in Melbourne. In 2020 Mirko Guerrini received a Dean’s Sessional Commendation at Monash University for “outstanding contribution to teaching and learning in the Faculty of Arts”. He has been invited as a visiting professor at UTAS Hobart in Australia and at the Banff Center for Performing Arts in Canada (2010, 2012), and was a speaker at the “Musical Perspectives” conference at Warwick University, Warwick, UK in 2012.
Michelangelo Scandroglio is a renowned bassist and composer who has received multiple awards for his exceptional talent. He is known for his remarkable contributions to the Italian jazz scene, and his eagerly anticipated new album, “Gently Broken” is set to captivate audiences. Among his numerous accolades, Scandroglio was awarded at the Riga International Jazz Bass Competition and received the Tomorrow’s Jazz Award from Veneto Jazz for the best Italian talent. Scandroglio was also recognised as the second-best talent of the year in the Top Jazz 2020 rankings and emerged as the winner of the Getxo International Jazz Competition 2021 in Bilbao. These honours underscore Scandroglio’s extraordinary musical abilities and firmly place him among the most promising jazz musicians of his generation.
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