“Antonio Flinta Quartet”

 

Italy - Chile - France

 

ANTONIO FLINTA QUARTET

“The group has a swinging, soulful sound and the ability to work grooves with

cool precision…there’s a bit of McCoy Tyner in Antonio Flinta’s attack and a touch

of Bill Evans in his improvisations” Cadence Magazine (USA)

“The enviable interplay they show is probably the focal point of their jazz playing"

Giuseppe Mavilla "Jazzitalia"

“A wonderful balance between technical proficiency, knowledge of jazz history and

contemporary creativity" Bruno Pollacci - "Animajazz"

 

Antonio FLINTA

Pianist and composer born in Chile, studied in Madrid at the Taller de Musicos with Joshua

Edelman, participating at masterclasses and studying at the same time with Barry Harris, Bob Moses and Chuck Israels, famous American jazzmen.

He earns a scholarship to attend the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he studies

composition and arrangement, improvisation with Ed Tomassi and jazz piano with Ray Santisi.

Since 1993 he has established his residence in Italy, leading his own trio and quartet.

 

Piercarlo SALVIA

Tenor Saxophonist, he has played with Steve Grossman, Joe Diorio, Barry Harris.

He collaborates with musicians such as, Luca Velotti, Garrison Fewell, Joe Magnarelli, Mohsen

Kassirosafhar, Fabiano Pellini, Giovanni Ceccarelli, Ada Montellanico.

From 2000 he worked as a teacher and performer with Attilio Berni (the sax player, the world’s greatest sax collector, and the owner of the largest collection of vintage saxophones in the world).

 

Roberto BUCCI

Bass player formed mainly due to the live music experience, began his musical studies at the

Saint Louis Music School in Rome, continuing at the Conservatory of Frosinone Licinio REFICE. At the same time he studied with M° Pani, bassist of the RAI (Italian Broadcasting Television), he started working with the Jazz Orchestra of M° Giovanni Tommaso, has played and collaborated with Paolo Fresu, Gianluigi Trovesi, Flavio Boltro. He is also the main manager of the festival "Jazz Artena 3000".

 

Claudio GIOANNINI

Drummer, began his musical training in Italy and studied at the same time with Ettore Fioravanti, Fabrizio Sferra who are now famous Italian drummers, to continue in 1987 at the "Percussion Institute of Technology" (PIT), a branch of the Musicians' Institute in Hollywood-USA, where he studied with such musicians as Steve Houghton, Ralph Humphrey and Joe Porcaro.

He graduated with "Honors" and received a special award: the "Human Relations Award.

" He also directs the "Staff Music School", (Rome and Viterbo).

 

OUR MUSIC ....

Original compositions and intense interplay are the means to explore the texture and colour, a free improvisation and standard jazz song formd, groovy rhythms and open spaces.

To follow the creative flow of the moment, to create new paths on the spot, or to get lost in a

musical space, are all key features of this Quartet.

And the opportunity of the four members of the band to interact, and to combine different musical elements makes the music more open, freer, but also more compact. Always bearing in mind that music – the universal language - must communicate.

 

DISCOGRAPHY:

In “TRIO”:

“The Meeting” (2000)

“Tree and Figure” (2003-Splasc(H) Records)

“La Edad De La Ira” (2005-Splasc(H) Records)

“Portraits and Songs” (2007-Splasc(H) Records). The song "Ninietta" included in the album

"La Edad De La Ira" was awarded finalist in the the 2006 “USA Songwriting Competition”.

In “QUARTET :

"Tamed" (2009 -Splasc(H) Records)

 

CONCERTS & FESTIVALS:

Sibiu Jazz Festival 2006

Sibiu Jazz Festival 2008

Ploiesti Jazz Summit

Brasov Jazz Days

Bucarest Europafest

Sonvico in Jazz (Swiss)

Ankara Jazz Festival (Turkey)

"China Tour" (Beijing, Tianjin)

Bansko Jazz Festival (Bulgaria)

Kaamos Jazz (Finland)

Smeltedigelen Jazz Festival (Norway)

Guatemala Jazz Festival

Nicaragua Jazz Festival

Sept 2012 “Jazz in The Desert…a Maghreb Tour” (Morocco, Algiers, Tunis)

May 2013 Sibiu Jazz Festival

International festival Kalevala Music Wheel (Petrozavodsk, Karelia, Russia) in October 2015 #KalevalaMusicWheel

 

 

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