Marco Piccirillo , born in Torino ( Italy ) in 1976, complete his musical education among
“ Centro Jazz “ Torino,  C.P.M.  Milano, Siena Jazz  and classical Bow studies at “ Scuola Civica” in Torino.

As self-taught he studied Arrangement and composition, and attended  sound engineer classes.

His Professional activity brought him to collect experience in various and different Sphere Music.
He collaborates with Jazz Players and multidisciplinary Artist internationally renowned. 

As Free lance he had collaboration with a lot Recording Studios, in different music styles 
from songwriters, 5 Stars Hotels show seasons at “ Hotel de Paris”  Montecarlo, “Hotel Palace” Saint Moritz ( CH ), Dance Music, pop, latin, Tango, Rock, Reggae, Funk & soul, Electronic., Jazz, Jingle Soundtracks, Theatre . 

He has also been stage Musician, or soundtrack technician in show and reading  with Italian Star Arturo Brachetti , Luca Regina e Tino Fimiani, Nicolalj Lilin. 

JAZZ AND SWING COLLABORATION 

Famadou Don Moye, Brenna Whitaker, Denise King,Tia Brazda,  Jan Ozveren, Neja, Robby Marshall, Kirk McDonald , Fabrizio Bosso, Emanuele Cisi, Nicolaj Zirkov, Alexander Bozhenko, Gabriele Mirabassi, Enrico Pieranunzi, Massimo Manzi, Eric Legnini, Jazz Accident, Fabrizio Gaudino, Philip Harper, Byron Landham, Enzo Zirilli, Roberto Taufic, Gilson Silveira, and many others. 

FESTIVALS AND CONCERT HALLS 
Lots of tours in Europe and Russia and Turkey, Igor Buttman Jazz Club, Esse Jazz Club, Union Of composer ( Moskow ) The Hat , JFC Jazz Club ( Saint Petersburg ) Rachmaninov Philarmonic Hall ( Novgorod ) , Auditorium Parco Della Musica Roma, Torino Jazz Festival , Avigliana Jazz Festival , Moncalieri Jazz Festival, Jazz Around the clock 2010, Jazz in una notte , Jazz Vision , Festival Manouche Rivoli, Kilkis Puppet Festival + Xanthi , Patra, Thessalonikki, Isola di Cipro (Grecia ), Pineda de Mar e barcellona in Spagna, Jazz Club Norimberga, Nice e Hotel de Paris (Montecarlo) in Francia, Hotel Palace St. Moritz in Svizzera. Casinò di Graz in Austria. .. Teatro Carignano,Alkatraz Milano, Limone Fonderie teatrali, Piccolo Regio, Auditorium Rai, Auditorium “G. Agnelli “ Hiroshima Mon Amour torino, Blue Note Milano, Traffic festival 2009...

One marker of bassist Michael Formanek's creativity and versatility is the range of distinguished musicians of several generations he's worked with. While still a teenager in the 1970s he toured with drummer Tony Williams and saxophonist Joe Henderson; starting in the '80s he played long stints with Stan Getz, Gerry Mulligan, Fred Hersch and Freddie Hubbard. The bassist has played a pivotal role on New York's creative jazz scene going back to the '90s when he notably led his own quintet and played in Tim Berne's barnstorming quartet Bloodcount. Nowadays Formanek's in the co-op Thumbscrew with Brooklyn guitarist Mary Halvorson and drummer Tomas Fujiwara.  
 
Formanek is also a composer and leader of various bands. His principal recording and international touring vehicle is his acclaimed quartet with Tim Berne on alto saxophone, Craig Taborn on piano and Gerald Cleaver on drums, which records for ECM; 2010's The Rub and Spare Change and 2012's Small Places both earned coveted five-star raves in Down Beat. Formanek writes, and the quartet plays, compositions of great rhythmic sophistication that unfold in a natural sounding way – challenging music the players make sound like lyrical free expression.  His occasional groups include the 18-piece all-star Ensemble Kolossus, roping in many New York improvisers he works with. Ensemble Kolossus recorded their first CD of all Formanek originals for the prestigious ECM in late 2014. That CD, The Distance, will be released in January 2016. 

Kronos Quartet is David Harrington (violin), John Sherba (violin), Hank Dutt (viola), and Sunny Yang (cello).

http://kronosquartet.org/

Here you will find our recordings of new work commissioned for Fifty for the Future: The Kronos Learning Repertoire. Released over five years beginning in 2016, this collection of 50 compositions by 25 men and 25 women from around the world will be devoted to the contemporary approaches to the string quartet and designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals. Scores and parts, audio recordings, composer interviews, and many more resources are available for free on our website.

Founded over forty years ago, we are a San Francisco-based 501(c)3 nonprofit organization. For more recordings, please visit http://www.nonesuch.com/artists/kronos-quartet or http://kronosquartet.org/recordings Thank you!

Hi 
I'm a trumpet player that plays various of genres
open to most music idioms, but want to be as creative as possible
besides that i also write and arrange..

Trumpeter/Improviser/Composer. Professor of Music at Towson University.

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