Marco Santilli & Paolo Alderighi
Biographie Marco Santilli & Paolo Alderighi
Marco Santilli
born in Locarno, the Italian speaking region of Switzerland, Marco was a graduate of the commercial college. He studied the clarinet at the Zurich Music Academy with Hansjürg Leuthold and Heinz Hofer and wind orchestra conducting with Franco Cesarini. After receiving his diploma in orchestral performance and teaching, he became adjunct clarinetist for the orchestra of the Zurich Opera House and for the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana. Marco earned his soloist diploma with a "First Prize for Virtuosity" from the Lausanne Music Academy, where he had studied with Frédéric Rapin. Workshops with George Robert, Gary Burton/Makoto Ozone, Oliver Ker Ourio, George Gruntz and Ken Peplowski. Marco took part in "Berklee at Umbria Jazz" and Zurich Jazz School programs. Chamber music and concerts with the Zurich Opera Orchestra, the Zurich Tonhalle Orchestra and others. In the realm of jazz, performances at "Estival Jazz" Lugano, the "Montreux Jazz Festival Off" and the "Blues to Bop" Lugano. During his stay in NY: concerts with various groups, among them the Michael Rabinowitz quartet (Mingus Orchestra).
Paolo Alderighi
was born in Milan in 1980. After getting the diploma at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan and the graduation with honours at the Bocconi University in “Management of the Arts, Culture and Communication”, he devoted himself to jazz music. Winning the prize as best young musician at the Breda Jazz Festival in NL in 2004 he has been invited 5 times to Japan for touring with an international band. He joined the “National Prize of the Arts 2007” organized by the Italian Ministry of University and Research, winning a special prize of the Jury (composed by Giorgio Gaslini, Paolo Fresu and Angelo Lazzeri). Defined “the best jazz pianist rising internationally” by the critic and journalist Franco Fayenz, he reached the second position in the “Top Jazz 2007” referendum organized by the jazz magazine “Musica Jazz” as “Best New Talent” and the first one in the popular referendum “Italian Jazz Awards 2007” as “Brand New Jazz Act”. Paolo performed with musicians well known in the jazz scene (Dan Barrett, Lillian Boutté, Tullio De Piscopo, Isla Eckinger, Dusko Goykovich, Dick Hyman, George Robert, Paolo Tomelleri). Besides giving concerts in Italy as well as abroad he also teaches “Musical Culture” at the Bocconi University in Milan inside the course of “Management of the Arts, Culture and Communication”. See also "il Giornale" dated 31.07.07 and "S+ specchio".
