"The present day
composer refuses to die!"
Edgar Varèse
Drummer, Percussionist, Composer
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
successively 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.
Founding member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra, has played the major
international festivals (Rive de Gier, Monaco, Moers, Parigi, Mulhouse,
Zurigo, Nevers, Le Mans, Grenoble, Chambery, Vilshofen, Saalfelden,
Colonia, Berlino, Lisbona, Porto, Faro, Siviglia, Salamanca, Madrid, Vigo,
Bath, Chicago, Vancouver, Toronto, Montreal, Yokohama, Istanbul, Oxford,
Manchester, London) has recorded for ECM and Enja Records and has won many
national and international Critics Pools. Played and/or recorded with
Tiziana Ghiglioni, Gianluigi Trovesi, Roberto Ottaviano, Dino Betti Van
Deer Noot, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Enrico Rava, Muhal Richard Abrams, Pierre
Favre, David Friedman, Dave Liebman, Jean Jacques Avenel, Oliver Johnson,
Maggie Nicols, Andrew Cyrille, Barre Phillips, Mark Dresser, Ray Anderson,
Steve Lacy, Dewey Redman, Tony Scott, William Parker, Cecil Taylor, Glenn
Ferris, Mark Dresser, Herb Robertson, Roswell Rudd. His CD's "Awake Nu / A
Tribute To Don Cherry" and "We Did It, We Did It / Rahsaan & The None" were
voted Best Record Of The Year in the 1998 and 2001 Italian Critics Pools.
Check also MySpace for news and updates
on gigs and concerts:
www.myspace.com/nexusworkshop
