Art music. Composition and improvisation including saxes, viola, guitar, electronic manipulations, voices, objects. A trip inside the mystery of sound and music.

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AVANT GARDE: Structured Improvisation, JAZZ: Modern Creative Jazz



Details:
IVAN VALENTINI
saxophonist/composer

After searching for the most suitable way of expression, he devoted himself to music attending seminars and getting diplomas in Saxophone and Jazz Music.

Since the early 90s he has been leading figure within music groups comfortably moving from improvised music to other forms of art, always proposing his own compositions.

He reinforces his musical activities by devoting time to Zen phylosophy.

He performed with Henry Threadgill, Mathias Ruegg and Bruno Tommasoâs orchestras.
He played also with: Franco DâAndrea Steve Bernstein, Enrico Rava, Roberto Dani, Tito Mangialajo, Giancarlo Bianchetti, Achille Succi, Lorena Fontana, Attilio Zanchi, Simone Guiducci, Marco Detto, Massimo Manzi, Enrico Merlin, Paolo Botti, Alberto Capelli â¦and othersâ¦

Since 1987 he has been regularly performed in music and poetry in collaboration with the poets Alberto Bertoni, Enrico Trebbi, Gaspare Bernardi, occasionally with Maurizio Cucchi, Giovanni Giudici, Gianni DâElia, Giancarlo Sissa, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Laura Betti, Mauro Macario, Emilio Rentocchini.

In the first 90ties he used to played with the Italian song writer Vinicio Capossela.

For almost ten years heâs been collaborating with American dancer and choreographer, Teri Weikel, creating music for âIl Maestro e Margheritaâ (with Antonello Salis), âAtomiâ, âLe città invisibiliâ, âLe ali dei sassiâ and realizing many improvised performances for solo sax and dance.

In 1996 his composition âPazâ was selected to be part of âAndrea Pazienza unlimited anthologyâ CDRom, which includes the whole artistâs production.

Nowadays he plays with Franco DâAndreaâs group called âElevenâ and with âOrchestra Spazialeâ.

Among all the festivals he took part: Jazz at the Rock, Imola - Termoli Jazz - Festival Musica â900, Trento - Sagra Musicale Malatestiana - Itinerari Jazz, Trento - Romapoesia in Campidoglio, Roma â Rovereto Jazz - Merano Jazz - Di Nuovo Musica, Reggio Emilia - Le Vie del suono, Modena - Metastasio Jazz, Prato - Radicondoli Estate - Crossroads, Emilia Romagna - Carpino Folk Festival - Isole che parlano,Sardegna - Folkfest, Spilimbergo â Musica per Roma, Roma â Angelica Festival, Bologna.

Essential discography:

Under his own name:
1992 âPazâ (Splasc(h) Records)
1993 âSenza Famigliaâ (Modern times)
2004 âSlantingâ (Splasc(h) Records)
2007 âIl Teatro Impossibileâ (Real music)
With poets Alberto Bertoni and Enrico Trebbi:
1997 âLa casa azzurraâ (Moby Dick)
2002 âViaggiâ (Arx-collana)
With Franco DâAndrea:
1999 âElevenâ (Philology)
2000 âCombinazione Unoâ (Via Veneto Jazz)