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Andrea Romani flute, ney

Based in Paris, born in Cremona, Italy (1975), Andrea is a self-taught musician who abandoned a promising career in an investment bank in Italy in the ‘90s when he first bought a flute. In 2003 he won a scholarship to the Siena Jazz summer workshop. The next year he joined the Winter Lab of Improvisation in Siena, directed by the pianist Stefano Battaglia. He established in 2008 his first Parisian quartet with Antoine Paganotti - drums, Daniel Benoit - piano, Nicolas Moreaux - bass). He then formed a duet with the guitarist Maxime Fougeres, one of the best guitarists who came from IACP, the school of the Belmondo brothers.

In 2007, he was the flutist on the album Southern Avenue, directed by Fabrizio Cecca’s sextet in Paris, published by Chrystal Records. For this recording (on which the great flutist Nicola Stilo is a guest), Andrea met the French trumpet player Julien Alour and the Italian pianist Giovanni Ceccarelli. Mostly in France and Italy, he has performed many times with the Italian guitar player Federico Casagrande. He also has performed with Gautier Garrigue, Stephane, Lionel Belmondo, Nico Morelli, Karl Yannouska, Sofie Alour, Marco Vaggi, Mauro Gargano, Gaetano Partipilo, and Samy Thiebault. 

In the last few years Andrea has travelled many times to Greece and Turkey. In these countries, under the influence of the two great masters of makam and modal music, Ross Daly (Crete) and Omer Erdogdular (neyzen in Istanbul ), he learned the Turkish ney and performed  oriental classical and traditional music, with musicians like Harris Lambrakis, Ross Daly, and Nikos Andrikos.

In 2014 he created “Alonisma,” a collective of international artists from Europe, the Middle East, and Brazil, including musicians, painters, filmmakers, dancers, actors, academics ands therapists.

Andrea Romani

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