I'm a cellist and composer born in born in Venice, Italy. I got my degree at the Conservatorio "Agostino Steffani" in Castelfranco Veneto. I play in chamber and orchestra formations, also I compose, play and record my own music. Since the nineties I played in several rock bands as a cellist as well as a guitar player, producer and sound engineer. Some of them (INNER GLORY; HAVING THIN MOONSHINE) have published records with international distribution(MASTERPIECE/TESCO), performed in international festival like WAVE GOTHIC TREFFEN (Lipzig), SHADOW DAZE (Manchester), HAU RUCK! FESTIVAL (Vienna), appeared with revews and interviews on magazines, web sites and radio show. 

Simone Jennarelli is the only pianist (with Leslie Howard) who has recorded the complete three versions of the Transcendental Studies by Liszt: the Étude en douze exercices S. 136 (1826), the 12 Grandes Études S. 137 (1837) and the Études d'Execution Transcendante S. 139 (1851).
Simone Jennarelli, composer and pianist, has studied Composition with Bruno Bettinelli (the celebrated maestro of Muti, Pollini, Abbado, Chailly). He has studied piano with the great pianist and teacher Ludwig Hoffmann, in Wien (Austria) and in München (Germany).

Simone Jennarelli has written music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, piano, organ and chorus, soundtracks for experimental short films in competition at Montecarlo Festival in IMAGINA 2007.
Sunpoems and Prismatic Music (2012, CD Baby), oneiric and colourful musical journey for piano and orchestra, is his first Album as composer.

Simone Jennarelli is also the featured artist, the producer and the copyright owner of his own music with label SmartCgArt.

He has recorded music by Brahms (Haydn Variations) and by Bettinelli for RSI, Italian Swiss Radio.
The recording of Chopin Prelude-Op. 28 n° 4 by Simone Jennarelli is the soundtrack to the final trailer of Leaving Limbo, a short film by Laurence Patrick featuring Hannah O'Leary, Cardiff 2013 and the soundtrack to the Trailer 2 of the new literary app Frankenstein for iPad and iPhone, written by the bestselling author Dave Morris (inkle Studios, Cambridge, UK) and launched by Profile Books, publisher in London, UK.
Compositions by Simone Jennarelli are published by Indie Classical Music Channel on YouTube.

Simone Jennarelli is member of the League of Composers/ISCM - New York.
He is Monteverdi Member.

SmartCgArt is devoted to the musicological re-discovery and promotion of forgotten or neglected treasures of Classical Music:
lost treasures by Liszt, Franck, Hummel, Vanhal, Von Dittersdorf, Wranitzky, Dussek, Mozart, Beethoven and other masters of ancient music...

Porticodoro/SmartCgArt is member of the League of Composers/ISCM-NY and other Musical Associations.
Porticodoro/SmartCgArt is specialized in Classical Music musicological productions, in order to re-discover and to make newly available lost masterpieces and forgotten or neglected treasures by the masters of the Classical and Romantic Eras.
Porticodoro works in collaboration with the modern composer Simone Jennarelli (Bruno Bettinelli's pupil and member of the League of Composers/ISCM-NY).
Porticodoro regularly publishes also musicological essays devoted to Classical Era Music and Composers.

Experimental, Indian, Classical, Dub, Sound Art.

Jake Charkey is an acclaimed cellist with a strong background in both Western classical music and Hindustani music. 
 
Building from his solid classical and orchestral training, he is an eclectic improviser, drawing from eastern and western musical traditions.
 
He is a sought after studio recording artist in the film, television and music industry in both India and USA.  A disciple of the renowned violinist Padmabhushan Dr. N. Rajam in the rare Gayaki Ang style, Jake is one of the few cellists in the world performing Indian music on the cello.

About
Jake Charkey started playing violin at the age of 6.  After a year of suffering the scratchy cacaphony of beginning violin, his father mercifully gave him a cello to try, and and he took it up like an old friend.
 
After completing his conservatory training at the Shepherd School of Music in Houston, TX and seeking to broaden his musical skills and vocabulary, he took an interest in Hindustani music.  His studies began in Toronto with the sarangi player, Aruna Narayan, who urged him to adapt Hindustani music to cello rather than learn an Indian instrument.  He continued in Los Angeles where he took up intensive training with Jagan Ramamoorthy, a senior disciple of the violin virtuoso Padmabushan Dr. N. Rajam.  He completed his M.F.A. at CalArts in Hindustani music under the guidance of Aashish Khan and Swapan Chaudury.  While at Cal-Arts he also incorporated other modalities of improvisation into his playing with Vinny Golia, Wadada Leo Smith, and Charlie Haden.
 
After grad school Jake moved to Montreal, where continued to perform Hindustani music, both as a soloist and accompanist for Kathak dance and was a occasional collaborator with tUnEyArds.  In 2010 he travelled to India with an arts fellowship from the Shastri Indo-Canadian Institute to support formal study under Padmabushan Dr. N. Rajam with whom he continued to learn for the 6 years he stayed there.  
 
In India he recorded and performed with many of the most celebrated musicians in Bollywood.  His unique sound can be heard on season 2 of MTV's Coke Studio, multiple episodes of MTV Unplugged, and in a number of Bollywood soundtracks.  

Since returning to the USA in 2016 Jake has joined the Slipstream Ensemble at Marlboro College, a composer/performer ensemble in residence and performs with Layale Chaker and Sarafand.  He also performs with Adam Rudolph’s GO Organic Orchestra and is a frequent collaborator with the Brooklyn Raga Massive.  He has been an advocate for new music for solo cello which he programs in recital alongside Hindustani music.  He lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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