Music

Elisabetta Antonini is the first Italian female singer to sign for the prestigious independent label Candid Records of renowned music producer Alan Bates. She is the Winner of the Top Jazz Magazine Award, voted by critics as The Best New Talent 2014.

Sophisticated singer, as well as a talented composer and arranger, she is active in the jazz sphere participating in shows and festivals all over Europe, presenting a vast repertoire that goes from the American Songbook to original works and contemporary jazz.

Elisabetta leads different and creative projects such as: The Beat Goes On dedicated to the American poets of the Beat Generation; Nuance, with harpist Marcella Carboni; Un Minuto Dopo, with original compositions inspired by chamber music and European jazz; In A New York Minute, a drumless hard bop project featuring the great saxophone player Maurizio Giammarco; Women Next Door, inspired by the music and style of George Shearing.

Jazz educator in singing and improvisation, and director of the jazz choir at the Saint Louis Music School of Rome, she teaches in many Italian Conservatories (Trento, Brescia, Benevento) and at various jazz workshops all over Italy (Nuoro Jazz, Tuscia in Jazz Spring, Tuscia in Jazz Summer, La Spezia Jazz Clinics) alongside outstanding musicians such as Paolo Fresu, Sheila Jordan, John Patitucci, Danilo Perez, Maria Pia De Vito, Francisco Mela, Kevin Hays, Scott Colley, Donny McCaslin, Peter Bernstein, Aaron Goldberg, Eric Harland, Kenny Werner, Kurt Rosenwinkel.

Italian harpist and composer, Marcella Carboni is considered one of the most active jazz harpists in Europe. Her performances are often defined as a balance between jazz and European music, played with impeccable technique and enchanting sound, and despite a strong dedication to Afro-American music she kept exploring all contemporary styles.

The encounter with NY harpist Park Stickney revealed the potentiality of the jazz harp to her and inspired her to develop an original style. Since then Marcella Carboni has been participating, with her electro-acoustic harp, in seminars, workshops, jazz and postgraduate studies in Italy and abroad.

She took part in movie and theatre projects and easily manages to suit her instrument to soul, pop or electronic music. To this day she still is the only harpist who has appeared in the Italian Top Jazz musicians ranking as “best musician of the year” and “best new talent”.

Her collaborations in the jazz field have been frequent and prestigious, having played together with the likes of Rosario Giuliani, Bruno Tommaso, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Paolo Fresu, Anthony Braxton, Edmar Castaneda, Javier Girotto, Daniela Spielmann, Enrico Fink, Ricardo Zegna, Paolo Damiani, Fabrizio Sferra, Yuri Goloubev, Gianni Coscia, Peter Waters, Joanna Rimmer, Elisabetta Antonini, Max De Aloe, Riccardo Fassi, Gabriele Coen, Francesco D’Auria, Francesca Corrias, Susanna Stivali, Aldo Bassi, Giacomo Uncini, Mario Corvini, Roberto Olzer, Simone Alessandrini.

Besides her intense musical activity, she is also engaged in teaching jazz harp in Italian harp music schools, the Conservatories of Matera, Benevento, Pesaro, Torino, Parma, Brescia, and in several Harp Festivals like Salsomaggiore (Italy), Ligerz (Switzerland) and Perpignan (France). Since 2011 she is a professor of jazz harp at the Nuoro Summer Jazz Seminars directed by Roberto Cipelli.

PROGRAMME

NUANCE

Choro pro Zé by A. Blanc – Guinga

Cerco il mare by M. Tiezzi – E. Antonini

Lazy Afternoon by J. Latouche – J. Moross

Summer Samba (So Nice) by M. Valle – S. Valle – N. Gimbel

Luiza by T. Jobim

Circe by E. Antonini

Round Midnight by T. Monk

Calipso Blues by N. K. Cole

John & Claude by M. Carboni

Sea Lady by N. Winstone – K. Wheeler

Tutu (Resurrection Blues) by C. Wilson – M. Miller