FRANCESCO PETRENI TRIO

THURSDAY JANUARY 6

9.00 PM PAR | 8.00 PM LON | 3.00 PM NY | 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €13.00 / £12.00 / $15.00

Francesco Petreni - drums

Andrea Mucciarelli - guitar

Ferruccio Spinetti - double bass

The group plays a programme of almost mainly original music of various inspirations,with ethnic influences and contemporary jazz blended with Mediterranean melodies and Latin rhythms. The rhythm section; Spinetti - Petreni boasts years of important collaborations (Marisa Monte, Ivan Lins, Mal Waldron etc.) and recordings for Emi Blue Note, for the French Bonsai Music and for the prestigious Brazilian Biscoito Fino (Latin Grammy nomination 2014 with the group Inventario). The trio is currently recording a CD with guests including Miguel Zenon, one of the most important saxophonists of the American jazz and Latin jazz scene.

Francesco Petreni has played with many musicians including Marc Johnson, Jonny Griffin, Palle Danielsson, Mal Waldron, Eddie Henderson, Enrico Rava, Tony Scott, Michael Blake, Avishai Cohen etc.. He has recorded more than 70 cds, 10 of which as leader/co-leader with many groups including Enrico Pieranunzi trio and with Mark Turner, David Binney, Larry Grenadier, Miguel Zenon, Eddie Wied, Paolo Fresu, Stefano Bollani, Kim Prevost, Bill Solley, etc. and brazilian music with Marisa Monte, Ivan Lins (with the group Inventario nominated for a Latin Grammy Award), Chico Buarque, Hamilton De Holanda, Vanessa Da Mata, Maria Gadu etc., participating in festivals and shows all over the world. He is the director of the Percussion Orchestra Bandao with which he has participated in more than 500 concerts in Italy, Europe, Brazil. He has held seminars in England, Spain, Ireland, Czech Republic, Georgia, Croatia, and for 8 years in Siena Jazz, is currently teaching at the Conservatory of Livorno.

Andrea Mucciarelli plays in a duo with the singer-songwriter Nada Malanima with whom he has taken part in numerous concerts around Italy and for Rai, Mediaset and other radio and television networks. He is part of the prestigious Barga Jazz Ensemble directed by M ° Bruno Tommaso. He also plays with Matteo Addabbo's organ trio since 2014, with whom he has recorded and traveled around Europe. He has played with Ornella Vanoni, Ares Tavolazzi, Roberto Cipelli, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Nicola Piovani, Dennis Bovell, Giovanni Falzone, Aziz Şenol Filiz, Achille Succi, Mirko Guerrini, Fabio Morgera, Stefano "Cocco" Cantini, etc., among others.

Ferruccio Spinetti is part of Avion Travel, the group that won the Sanremo Festival in 2000, with whom he recorded several CDs, made soundtracks for films and toured in Italy and throughout Europe. He has also played with Rita Marcotulli, Mal Waldron, Arto Lindsay, Fabrizio Bosso, Paolo Fresu, Ivan Lins (he is featured on the album "Inventario" and was nominated for the 2014 Latin Grammy Award), Marisa Monte, Chico Buarque, Vanessa Da Mata, Samuele Bersani, Pacifico etc. From 2004 to 2008 he played in Stefano Bollani's quintet playing around Europe. With Petra Magoni in Musica Nuda he performed more than 1500 concerts all over the world, winning the prestigious Premio Tenco and the MEI award for the best Italian tour, and recording 11 CDs. He teaches at the Siena Jazz University and the Morlacchi Conservatory of Perugia.

Booking will close 60 minutes before the start of concert to allow time to process payments.

STEVE SANDBERG

SUNDAY JANUARY 9

9.00 PM PAR | 8.00 PM LON | 3.00 PM NY | 12.00PM LA

TICKET PRICE €13.00 / £12.00 / $15.00

Steve Sandberg - piano

A solo set streamed from NYC, in which Steve will play his "world classical music" compositions - originals inspired by pieces by Chopin, Ravel, Bartok, Debussy, Bach incorporating world music rhythms and improvisation (see * below).

Three time Emmy-nominated composer/pianist Steve Sandberg plays original music that masterfully blends classical, world music and jazz with the excitement of virtuosic improvisation.
Steve was lead composer and musical director for Nickelodeon’s landmark children’s programs “Dora the Explorer” and “Go, Diego, Go!”. His scoring and songwriting was informed by a lifetime of immersion in the music of many cultures.
He began playing the piano at the age of 4 (and is a current student of the legendary pianist and teacher Seymour Bernstein), then became part of New York’s vibrant Latin music scene. His mentor in the field of jazz and Latin music was multi-instrumentalist Mario Rivera, a key member of the Dizzie Gillespie, Tito Puente, and George Coleman ensembles. Sandberg was pianist, composer and arranger for Rivera’s legendary “Salsa Refugee” group, and also performed with Celia Cruz, Tito Puente and Ruben Blades. A highlight of this period was an appearance in Rio and São Paolo with João Gilberto in a duo with vocalist Bebel Gilberto. He also toured with David Byrne (“Rei Momo") as keyboardist and vocalist. 
Throughout the pandemic, Steve has been livestreaming regularly from Brooklyn's Soapbox Gallery, solo and in collaboration with many noted NY musicians including Rudy Royston, Boris Koslov, Vitor Goncalves, Jay Hoggard, Jay Rodriguez, and Vinicius Gomes.  In August of 2022, Steve and Zach performed a duo concert in NYC's Bargemusic series, and will be travelling to Egypt this May to play concerts and present masterclasses.
Steve has studied North Indian raga singing with Ustad Mashkoor Ali Khan, and performs with Dr. L. Subramaniam, South India’s violin icon.
The Steve Sandberg Quartet made its debut in 2016 with a sold out concert at New York City’s DiMenna Center. The group grew out of Mr. Sandberg’s desire to merge his lifelong study of classical Western music with his passion for jazz, Latin, and world music.
The Quartet released its breakthrough recording, “Alaya”, on Artistshare Records in 2016. It has performed at Birdland, New York’s Symphony Space, Sidedoor Jazz, and will be featured next April at the Allentown Symphony Jazz series.
The concerts mix performances from the solo piano repertoire (Chopin, Ravel, Bartok, Liszt), with the quartet’s soaring improvisations on originals that are based on these pieces and also draw from Latin, African, Balkan, and East Indian traditions. One audience member describes the experience as listening to “music from a country I’ve never been to but always wanted to visit.” Sandberg also uses the concerts as an opportunity to educate and engage his audiences with accessible commentary that draws them into his musical world.
“Alaya” features Snarky Puppy’s Zach Brock, heralded as “the pre-eminent improvising violinist of his generation”; drummer Mauricio Zottarelli (Eliane Elias, Esperanza Spalding, Hiromi); and bassist Michael O’Brien (Harry Connick Jr., Dave Samuels, Ruben Blades).

*Steve has been working on these compositions in anticipation of publication and will be happy to share pdfs!

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