South America Landscape – Guido Bombardieri

He graduated in clarinet at the Conservatory of Mantua in 1991 under the guidance of M ° Savino Acquaviva, collaborating with chamber groups as clarinetist and saxophonist. In 1997 he was ranked seventh in “TOP JAZZ” as the newest talents from the magazine “Musica Jazz”. He was the first alto sax in the jazz Orchestra Giovanile Italiana. He played with the group “Elio and the Story Stories” in the soundtrack of the film “Almost Almost” (2002). He has performed at various Festivals, playing with his own groups and with several ensembles all over the world. He is part of the “Buffa Orchestra” in the performance produced by Teatro Strelher with Antonio Albanese, lyrics by Stefano Benni and music by Luca Francesconi. He occasionally collaborates with renowned jazzmen such as Gianluigi Trovesi, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Marco Tamburini, Giorgio Gaslini, Sandro Gibellini, Mike Melillo, Tino Tracanna, Ares Tavolazzi, Rudy Migliardi, Franco D’Andrea, Mauro Beggio, Piero Leveratto, Luis Agudo.

Gabriele Zanetti graduated in guitar at the Marenzio Conservatory of Brescia. Parallel to classical studies, he has always been interested in acoustic and electric guitar. He plays in the Mandolins and Guitars Orchestra “Città di Brescia” directed by M ° Claudio Mandonico, with whom he has recorded several monographic works devoted to important authors of the original repertoire. Active as chamber musician, he recorded over ten records. He wrote the didactic method for children “Musichiamo con la chitarra”. He published “Red Hot Peppers”, a essay on the birth of jazz and popular music. He wrote the romance “Tar and the guitar of time”, a novel in which the guitar history is explained through the journey of a cat. He rediscovered the manuscript of the Sixth Concerto by Niccolò Paganini in the original version for violin and guitar and has edited the review for the Japanese publisher DaVinci. He has an intensive teaching activity in the province of Brescia.attività didattica della provincia di Brescia e presso la SMIM di Adro.

“The multi-faceted South American music world has been a mythical and far-reaching horizon for European musicians: land of fire, explosion of colors and sounds, model of a different world, a haven of vitality and a melancholy impossible to overlook. A human dimension full of authenticity and spirituality in which it is easy to recognize rhythms, often related to dance, born out of syncopation and combined along with melancholic melodies. A sense of love that awaken the vertigo of sensuality and shows the vitality of everyday life. South American music is first of all blood and breath and is the most direct and diffused way of communicating concrete feelings, energy steered towards freedom. Drowsy memories and vital throbs of this music prevail over the technological rhythm of modernity, able to refresh a latent vitality and reopen the rooms of mind where secrets of the spirit are hidden.”