Istituto Italiano di Cultura co-presents Fulvio Albano and Massimo Farao in concert.
Sunday March 20, 2016 – 8:30pm
Hugh’s Room – 2261 Dundas St West, Toronto
Tickets: $30 Advance/$35 Door (includes HST)
Fulvio Albano
Artistic director, conductor, composer, arranger, saxophonist, clarinet player, musical and record producer, president-founder of the Jazz Club Torino Fulvio Albano’s prestigious artistic career includes participations in several international jazz festivals. We could remember: JVC Rome, EBU Helsinki, Torino Jazz Festival, Lisbon, JVC Rome, JVC Turin, Lugano’s Blues to Bop, Coutances, Prague, Dubendorf, Ciak Milan, Eurofestival Ivrea, Bari, San Marino, Lugano’s Estival Jazz and others important musical events, at the Conservatories of Milan and Turin, Italian Swiss Radio, Teatro Regio Torino, Centro Cultural São Paulo do Brasil, Palácio das Artes di Belo Horizonte, Berna, Brno, Sorrento. He collaborated for a long time with Milan’s RAI and Venice’s Teatro La Fenice. He is the musical director of the Torino Jazz Orchestra. He played with such talented musicians as Gianni Basso, Dusko Goykovich, Johnny Griffin, Ernie Wilkins, Alvin Queen, Tony Scott, Lee Konitz, George Robert, Franco Cerri, Benny Bailey, Dionne Warwick, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Slide Hampton, Bob Mover, Jimmy Cobb, Tom Kirkpatrick, Bobby Durham, Sangoma Everett, New York Voices, Dado Moroni, Tullio De Piscopo, Phil Woods, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Uri Caine, Paul Jeffrey, Harry Allen, Mickey Roker, Tom Harrell, Eliot Zigmund, Jerry Bergonzi, Bobby Watson, Scott Hamilton, Terell Stafford, Denise King, Sheila Jordan, The Mingus Dynasty and the New York Voices. He is the artistic director of the Due Laghi Jazz Festival, of the Jazz Club Torino and founder of the Consortium Piemonte Jazz. His international musical events are related to Piedmont Region’s program Piemonte Live and due to an European Union program of development. He is also director of the Due Laghi Jazz Workshop, a master in musical improvement organized in collaboration with Haute Ecole de Jazz de Lausanne and Bern’s Swiss Jazz School. He took part in many international jazz events, representing Italy and the European Union.
Massimo Farao
“The blackest of Italian pianists” was born May 16th, 1965, in Genoa. He studied piano with Maestro Flavio Crivelli and began his career collaborating with musicians from the Genoa Area, especially with the bassist Piero Leveratto. In 1993 he was invited for the first time in the USA. He plays with Red Holloway and Albert “Tootie” Heath on a tour on the West Coast. In the same year he founded “We love Jazz” Workshop, now become one of the biggest events in Europe for jazz teaching. In 1994 he was hired by “Monad Records” in New York and back in the United States as pianoplayer and music director of Shawnn Monteiro’s band, with Keter Betts and Bobby Durham. He has played in several european tours with the Nat Adderley Quintet, composed by Antonio Hart, Walter Booker and Jimmy Cobb. In 2001 he joined the Archie Shepp’s “Just in Time” Quartet with Wayne Dockery and Bobby Durham. Since 2001 he is the artistic director for the jazz division of AZZURRA MUSIC label. In 2003 he played at “Jazz Piano Festival” in Lucerne. In November 2004 he played in Japan, where his albums have become bestsellers. He played in Italy, France, Germany, Corsica, Switzerland, Hungary, Austria, USA, Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland, Dubai, Luxembourg, Spain, Japan, Yugoslavia. He has recorded more than 2 hundred recordings with many Italian and foreign musicians.
Information
Date: Sunday, March 20, 2016
Times: 8:30pm
Venue: Hugh’s Room – 2261 Dundas St West, Toronto
Presented by: Istituto Italiano di Cultura
In collaboration with: Hugh’s Room
Tickets: $30 Advance/$35 Door (includes HST)