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Massimiliano Pitocco, bandoneon
Daniele Roccato, double bass
Saverio Tasca, vibraphone and percussion
Marco Tezza, piano
The TrisTango
Conceived with the purpose of offering Astor Piazzolla's tango by playing those instruments which are its vital core, the TrisTango has shown an ability of combining both a faithful and a creative interpretation of the original music. The Trio (now a Quartet!) has remained far from numberless interpretations which only emphasize the melodic aspect of Piazzolla's music. It has gone where the young Piazzolla in the fifties got inspiration for his new music, that is contemporary classical music - and, most of all, jazz - but it has expanded its performances by absorbing the evocative sounds of new contaminations, such as ethnic music and has given wide space to improvisations. The result is an overwhelming emotional strenght which pours out from the musicians on to the audience.
Its eclecticism allows the TrisTango to perform both in classical music seasons and jazz festivals, and furthermore it is really interesting with orchestra accompaniment.
Massimiliano Pitocco - bandoneòn
Massimiliano Pitocco studied Accordion in Paris with Max Bonnay and obtained a degree at the National Higher Conservatory in 1992 and at the "Ville de Paris" Conservatory in 1993. In the same year he won the first prize with gold medal at the regional contest of "Ile de France". In 1992 Mr. Pitocco took an Organ degree "Cum Laude" in Pescara and, after that, a degree in Accordion at the Conservatory of Bari.
Massimiliano is winner of several International Accordion contests. Among these he was awarded the first prize at Castelfidardo ('86 and '88 editions) and the second prize at the "World Cup" organized in Switzerland (89th edition). He is often invited to hold seminars and conferences at the most important international competitions.
Massimiliano has been playing Bandoneòn for some years, devoting his attention particularly to the tango, especially Astor Piazzolla's music. In fact, he founded the "Four for Tango Quartet."
Massimiliano Pitocco, both as soloist and with orchestras of the major theatres of the world, has cooperated with famous artists such as: Milva, Luis Bacalov, Ennio Morricone, Sylvano Bussotti, Gidon Kremer, Nicola Piovani, Vinicio Capossela, Sebastiano Lo Monaco, Leopoldo Mastelloni, and David Riondino.
He has recorded a lot of works with record studios such as Sculture d'Aria, Rivoalto Ducale and Azzurra; for Dynamic, he recorded the first performance of the "Opera Maria de Buenos Aires".
Mr. Pitocco teaches at the "S.Cecilia" Conservatory of Rome and the "Musical Accademy" in Pescara.
Daniele Roccato - double bass
Daniele Roccato is considered one of the most interesting and active soloists on the Italian and European scene today. His musical studies started at a young age when he took up the violin and the guitar. He then went on to study the double bass under the guidance of Federico Garberoglio. During this period, Mr. Roccato was called to play the lead instrument with the most important youth orchestras, such as the Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée, the E.U.Y.O., the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, the Orchestra Internazionale Alpe-Adria. Daniele was winner of numerous musical competitions.
Daniele Roccato graduated with full honors and a cum laude and he immediately began to perform as lead instrument with some of the most important Italian and international orchestras and began working with leading musical directors and recording for labels such as, Deutsche Grammophon and BMG. Daniele soon decided to dedicate himself full time to the concert circuit, focusing on a traditional repertoire as well as a contemporary one. He has performed musical pieces never before played and performed musical compositions written just for him. He has also transcribed numerous musical pieces that have been performed and recorded and some which he has personally edited for publication.
Mr. Roccato has performed in a number of concerts as a soloist and as a duo, accompanied by the piano. As a soloist he performed with the Orchestra della Radio of Sofia, Stravinsky Chamber Orchestra, La Camerata Musicale, Orchestra da Camera G. Malipiero, Orchestra Sinfonica of Perugia, etc. He has been invited as soloist to play in some of the most important concert halls in Italy and abroad: Berlin, Sofia, Munich, Paris, Casablanca, Havana, etc. He has been on many television programs and he has recorded for labels such as, Velut Luna and OnClassical. The critics have often noted the originality in his musical language and his remarkable technical prowess. He is the founder of the group TrisTango (bandoneon, double bass and piano) in which he introduces a new way of presenting the double bass; there are violin parts, ethnic sounds and notes, improvisations that meld together the different genres.
Daniele Roccato also performed with the Nu-Ork Quintet with Lucio Dalla in 2005. On tour Daniele played in theaters and some of the most suggestive archaeological sites throughout Italy. He has the teaching chair for the study of double bass at the Conservatory of Music of Perugia and holds three-year specialization courses at the Accademia Internazionale delle Arti in Rome, and he is often asked to hold master classes.
Saverio Tasca - vibraphone and percussion
Saverio Tasca, born in Bassano del Grappa, Italy, on August 23rd, 1963, began his music studies in 1974. He studied piano, guitar and drums, and in 1986 he began attending percussion classes with Guido Facchin from the Orchestra della Fenice, Venice. From 1989 to 1990 he specialized in percussion at the Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam, with Jan Pustjiens, Peter Prommel and Jeroen Goldstein, and in 1990 he finished his Masters Degree in Italy.
Mr. Tasca studied also with David Friedman, Dave Samuels and Robert Van Sice. Since 1992 Tasca has been Instructor of Percussion at the Conservatorium of Verona. He was also percussionist and timpanist in the Orchestra della Fenice, among others. In 1998 he was assistant in a David Friedman summer course and since 2001 he has been a teacher, togetherwith Dave Samuels, for the vibraphone and marimba master classes in the "Summer Jazz Workshop in Italy", organized by the New School University of New York, where he also conducts the percussion ensemble.
Saverio Tasca played jazz with Franco D'Andrea, Harold Danko, Claudio Roditi, Tony Scott, Dave Samuels, David Friedman, Glenn Ferris and many of the most famous musicians in Europe. He plays in several groups and ensembles, in classical, jazz and conteporary music, in Europe, and in South African tours. As a teacher he has also led several courses and workshops in Italy on percussion and Jazz music. He also conducts classical ensembles and big bands.
As composer and teacher he has written studies, solo pieces and group pieces for percussion instruments, many of them for vibraphone, and a concerto for vibraphone and string orchestra, all published by Honey Rock Publishing, USA. In July 2004 he was awarded 3rd prize in the PAS (Percussion Arts Society - USA) Vibraphone Composition Contest.
Marco Tezza - pianoforte
Marco Tezza, 1964, attends the Accademy of music of his town, studying piano with Carlo Mazzoli and violin with Giovanni Guglielmo and Giuliana Padrin. He gets a First-class degree with distinction and honourable mention in piano in 1984. He refines his knowledge in Italy (Imola Accademy) with Jörg Demus, Gyorgy Sandor and Bruno Canino, and in France with Aquiles delle Vigne, attending the Ecole Normale "A. Cortot" of Paris, where he obtains the "Diplome Superieur d’Exècution".
Besides, he wins several international competitions of piano: Citta di Treviso (First Prize); La Spezia (First Prize); RAI (First Prize); Moncalieri (European Prize for Chamber Music); Busoni (Graduate).
To these important prizes he adds a rich concert activity in prestigious concert-halls in Europe, America, Africa and the Middle-East: La Fenice Theatre of Venezia, Auditorium RAI of Turin, Milan, Rome, Palermo, Cagliari, Tonhalle of Zurich, Geneva, Lugano, Salle Cortot of Paris, Bruxelles, Musichalle of Hamburg, Kiel, Lubeck, Cologne, Culture Salle of Sofia, Plovdiv, Karlovo, Old Mutual Auditorium in Pretoria (South Africa), Tawes Theatre of Washington, New York, Dom Silvero Theatre in Belo Horizonte, Ouro Preto, Nova Lima (Brazil), Assembly Hall of Beirut and Tripoli, just to mention the most important ones.
Nevertheless, his concert commitments do not prevent him from concluding the studies of violin, which will prove to be extremely important for his subsequent career as a conductor.
Marco Tezza's creative personality leads him to have some important partners for chamber-music, such as Ughi, Brunello, Carmignola, Ashkenazy, Klein and Pitocco (with him and the double bass player Daniele Roccato, M.T. has recently started the TrisTango, which plays Piazzolla's repertoire in a new version, influenced by various musical genres contamination), and to collaborate with important conductors such as Rizzi, Pidò, Hogwood, Hacker, etc. He is often invited to take part in the jury of prestigious international competitions of piano and chamber-music, in quality of "Honorary member" of the "Accademia Veneta di Arti e Scienze". He is personally invited to the "Universitè de S. Esprit" of Beirut (where he is given a chair as "Professeur invitè"), to the "Victorian College of the Arts" of Melbourne in Australia, where he gives Master Classes and a series of concerts which are telecast. He attends Lyudmill Descev’s courses and graduates as a conductor (with honourable mention) in 1993 at the "Benvenuti" Academy of Conegliano Veneto. He assist M. de Bernardt and M. Kovatchev; his dèbut as a conductor is received with enthusiastic consents.
In the course of his career Marco Tezza has collaborated both as a soloist and a conductor with several chamber and sinphonic orchestras such as: Pedrollo Chamber Orchestra, the Florence Sinphonyetta, the I Fiati della Scala, the Accademia Bizantina, the Philarmonic Orchestra of Udine, the Philarmonic Orchestra of San Remo, the Toscanini Simphony Orchestra, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Filarmonia Veneta, the Sofia Chamber Orchestra, the Viotti Chamber Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra of Plovdiv, the Soloist of Bologna, the Jeunesse Musicale Symphony Orchestra, the Praga Symphony Orchestra and several more ones.
He founds the Stravinskij Chamber Orchestra, which he still conducts, in 1994 and is invited to some important festivals and international tournèes (Vivaldi Festival in Venice 1994, Gardaland Festival 1995, Lebanon 1995, Brazil 1997 and 1998).
As regards Opera, he has collaborated with the Ater Forum presenting Donizetti’s "Don Pasquale" and Wagner's "The Flying Dutchma" in the Theatres of Ferrara, Modena, Parma, Rovigo and Bologna.
During the next season he will be committed in a new Brazilian and Argentinan tour (as the conductor of the Stravinskij Chamber Orchestra and both as soloist and conductor of Amazonic Simphony Orchestra), in a series of recitals and piano Master-Classes in Australia and Argentina and in the recording of two new CDs.
He has recorded LPs and CDs for Balkanton, Klingsor, AS disc and OnClassical.
'round Piazzolla
Tangos by Astor Piazzolla
JEANNE Y PAUL
OBLIVION
ESCUALO
MILONGA DEL ANGEL
MICHELANGELO 70
BIYUYA
ADIOS NONINO
TANGUEDIA
INVERNO PORTENO
LIBERTANGO
SOLEDAD
CONTRABAJISSIMO
Each composition is by Astor Piazzolla
Original arrangements by TrisTango
TrisTango
The bandoneòn
Max Pitocco (on the left) and Daniele Roccato (on the rigth with Saverio Tasca)
Marco Tezza at the piano
Saverio Tasca at the vibraphone
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