Guitarist, composer and arranger,
start to study classical guitar to 11 year , already from the 15 year-old
age it starts to professionally play in groups of pop music, it passes
through the blues and the popular music, and it reaches the jazz. To Milan
it studies Jazz and harmony with Filippo Daccò, Fabio Jeger, Franco
Cerri, Giovanni Monteforte, Gigi Cifarelli; and classical guitar with
the M° Oltremari and the M°. Suvini.
She has collaborated with different musicians of jazz: Franco Cerri, Bruno
Tommaso, Sante Palumbo, Matthias Schubert, Marco Tamburini, Bruno De Filippi,
Ed Neumeister, Pietro Tonolo.
In the theater has worked with: the Kismet Theater Opera (Bari), the company
of the Litta Theater (Milan), the directors Carlo Formigoni, Renato Sarti,
the actors Bebo Storti and Antonio Albanese.
Together with the actor Francesco
Orlando has written and gotten by the winning passage of the "II°
Festival della Satira in note" of Ascoli Piceno, I edit from "Pongo
Record's"(1992).
In the year 2000 create the recording study of Making Music with which
continuous to work together with the percussionist Ettore Bonafé.
It produces and it realizes music for video and documentaries RAI-TV and
Mediaset. It realizes music and CD for different artists; as for: the
Florence Dance Festival; the corporate Park of the Apuanes; the Region
Tuscany; the artistic groups "IZETA+" and "Surproduction";
as well as advertising agency Comunication Art and the Region Calabria.
She as participated in festival and musical reviews in Italy and Europe:
the Jazz Meeting in Milan, Pistoia Blues Festival, Umbria Jazz, Barga
Jazz, Festival delle colline, Pelago On The Road Festival etc.
In the popular music has collaborated with the organettist Cristina Vetrone
and she has worked to the musical direction of the acoustic quintet of
the Roman singer Gabriella Ferri.
Teacher of modern guitar and jazz at the Athenaeum Musicale Fiorentino.
Mino Cavallo over the production and the arrangement is studious of acoustic
typical instruments of the latinamerican as the quatro, tiple, chaarango,
trés and different styles of Mediterranean popular classical guitar
(flamenco, tango, bossa nova, choro, son, joropo, salsa etc.).
1980
First professional experiences in groups of pop music.
1988
It plays with the sextet "Four Brothers" of Franco Cerri
1989/1991
It plays with the quintet "Luci Rosse" with the pianist Alberto
Tacchini and the drummer Emilio Bonvini.
1991
It forms the trio "do canto latino" with Fernando and Nile Barreto;
same give year up to 1993 she continuously works in groups of popmusic
with Daniele Montenero, Roberto Soffici, Joe Vescovi, Maurizio Arena with
which it records disks.
1993
It gathers the sextet "Effetto Jazz" with which participates
to the festivals of Pistoia Blues.
1994
It plays in the "New Trio" with Nicola Vernuccio and Antonio
Laraia.
1995
It plays with the "Sunrise Jazz Band ", for which composes and
it gets by original passages, participating in different musical reviews
among which the Festival delle Colline, the Campi Jazz festival and Fabbrica
Europa.
1996
Finalist 3° classified to the review "Barga Jazz 96" international
festival of arrangement for Jazz Orchestra.
1997
The association starts with the Roman singer Gabriella Ferri, arranger
of its old and new songs it participates to a series of concerts in Italy
and to the foreign countries.
1998
It plays with "New Voice of Joy" Soul-Gospel group of Nehemia
H. Brown.
1999
It forms the "Bye-Ya" with Valerio Perla and Amedeo Ronga. To
the group the Cuban violinist Rubèn Chaviano is added.
2000
It records the CD " Sertao" with the collaboration of different
international musicians.
It forms the duo "Con Alma Latina" with the guitarist Pietro
Locascio proposing a repertoire of rumbe and flamenco inspired to the
Mediterranean popular music.
2001
It forms the group "Alta Madera" together with Ruben Chaviano.
It plays with the Cuban singer Oreste Lopez and with the Colombian harpist
Jaime Vargas.
2002
It records the CD with the Cuban group "Barrio Alto" and it
performs the summer turnèe participating to different festivals
and summer demonstrations.
2003
It starts to work to the project of the group "Milagro", with
the singer Anna Granata, the saxophonist Claudio Carboni, Amedeo Ronga
to the bass and Ettore Bonafè to the percussions.
Special mention to the festival Barga Jazz 2003 with the group Alta Madera.
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