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data 2 microphones SM 58 per il sax 4 dynimic microphones for each string 4 chairs without arms |
Info Javier Girotto Tel./Fax 0039 – 06 - 6530217 Mobil 0039 - 347- 4561770 C.P. 14015 viale Lenin, snc - 00149 - Roma - Italia Javiergirotto@tiscali.it |
Javier Girotto and the “Vertere String Quartet” Javier Girotto and the “Vertere String Quartet” perform his own original compositions, arranged for the same formation by Luigi Giannatempo. Javier’s great personality, his emotional power and his improvisation, mix with the unique string quartet in an exaulting timber game. In 2006 they recorded the first disc “Nahuel” edited by the Manifesto.
Giuseppe Amatulli violin The birth of this formation is the result of the lay and professional encounter of four musicians from Puglia, all having experience and collaboration with prestigious oschestras and artists of established fame. “VERTERE”: muting, changing shape. This is the quartet’s philosophy, to be camaleon-like, to model the sound, make it alive. The quartet has a repertoire that goes from classicl to contemporary. Since 2003 the Vertere Quartet collaborated with Javier Girotto and Daniele Di Bonaventura for several projects including “Recordando Piazzolla y Gardel”, with which he performed in numerous National Jazz Festivals.
Graduated brilliantly in violin in 1991 at the “N. Piccinni” Music Conservatory of Bari, section of Monopoli, with Maestro Carlo Lazari, he then furthered his studies in violin and baroque techique at the Music School of Fiesole with Maestro E. Gatti, and in chamber music with Maestro M. Flaksman. Amatulli studied jazz music with Maestro Gianni Lenoci and followed the improvisation seminars with J. Leandre, S. Battaglia, S. Papadimitriu. From 1991 to 1995 Amatulli was orchestra professor at the Symphonic Orchestra ICO of Lecce and, in the same year, collaborated continuously with the Symphonic Orchestra of Taranto, with which he accompanied in tornèe artists such as Milva, Ami Stewart and Elio di Elio e le Storie Tese. He played as first violin in live broadcast programs on RAI 1: ”Oscar TV 2OO2, in 2003 & 2005 from Teatro Ariston in Sanremo, ”Premio Barocco 2002, 2003 & 2004” accompaning numerous artists among whom Dionne Warwick, Lucio Dalla, Antonnella Ruggiero, Renzo Arbore, Enrico Ruggieri, Noa. Amatulli also worked with jazz musicians such as: S. Lacy, N. Lee, G. Coscia, B. Tommaso, P. Damiani, R. Ottaviano, G. Lenoci, S. Satta, T. Rusconi, D. DI Bonaventura, S. Battaglia and Girotto. In 1996 he won the ISMEZ competition, and participated in the ” IS ENSEMBLE”, with which he performed in several major Italian festivals, figuring as one of the best of that year according to the “Top Jazz” referendum in the magazine MUSICAJAZZ. Finalist for important national competitions, among which “Stresa” and “Barga Jazz”; in 1999 together with the ALMADANÇANTE group, he won the “ VI Internazional ASTOR PIAZZOLLA” prize, together with the poet and musician Vittorio Curci, founder of the “Café Klez” group, which explores and rielaborates the Yiddish musical tradition, and with whom he recorded the documentary film soundtrack for the French Radio-television. He recorded tv programs for RAI, MEDIASET, RAI Radio 3, and collaborated as sideman for notable recording studios.
With Domenico Mastro, he founded the VERTERE STRING QUARTET of which
he is first violin. Since 2004 he has collaborated with the argentinian
sax player Javier Girotto and the bandoneonist Daniele Di Bonaventura
and has participated in important national festivals. He currently
teaches violin in Public High Schools . Discs published:
Began her studies at the Music Conservatory “N. Piccinni” of Bari, graduating under the guidance of maestro Osvaldo Scilla, teacher at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan. She collaborated with several orchestras among which the Synphonic Orchestra of Bari, the International Orchestra of Italy, the Synphonic Orchestra of Matera, the Chamber Orchestra of Aosta, the Magna Grecia Symphonic Orchestra of Taranto, the Symphonic Youth Orchestra of the Abbruzzi, the Teatro Petruzzelli Lyric-Symphonic Orchestra of Bari. She perfected her studies with outstanding teachers such as F. Ayo, B. Antonioni, A. Florio, O. Scilla, C. Grasso, O. Ghiglia, developing a rich and emphatic repertoire of different styles and historical periods. She played in various musical associations as soloist in chamber groups and in string quartet, duo violin-piano, duo violin-cembalo, duo violin-guitar. For the “D. Ciani” association of Verbania, as soloist, she performed the LA maggiore KW 219 of W.A. Mozart for violin and orchestra. She now collaborates with the well established ”Collegium Musicum” of Bari, which takes pride in working in several Italian cities, the radio RAI-Radio Tre and with many illustrious artists such as A. Felle, E. Pandolfi, M. Esdra, A. Piccolini, L. Carmignola. Together with her classical concert career, she collaborated in the jazz world with excellent artists: Giorgio Gaslini, Gianluca Renzi, Pino Iodice, Javier Girotto, partecipating in several reviews including the Jazz Festival of Orsara, Talos, Jazz Festival of Villa Celimontana in Rome, the Leuciano Festival in Caserta.
Domenico Mastro
In the following years he collaborated with several lirical-symphony orchestras: the International of Magna Grecia, the Youth Orchestra of Turin, the Stefano Tempia Academy of Turin, the Sammartini of Turin, the Sicilian Youth Orchestra, the Eighteenth Century Academy, the Paisiello Provincia of Taranto, the Jazz Studio of Bari and the Petruzzelli Theatre of Bari, performing with soloists such as Bruson, Raimondi, Dimitrova, Gasdia, Cura, Ayo, Milenkovic, Ormezowsky and Pollini. He also dedicated himself to chamber music , in duo with piano, duo with guitar, string trio, quartet and quintet with guitar, as violinist and later violist, playing in numerous concerts both in Italy and abroad. In 2004 he participated in the television programs Oscar tv and Premio Barocco. He had the chance to meet the jazz world and to accompany soloists such as Enrico Rava, Daniele di Bonaventura, Javier Girotto with whom he participated in national festivals and actually plays in quartet and in orchestral groups. Founder of the VERTERE STRING QUARTET together with his friend Giuseppe Amatulli. He taught Theory and Solfeggio at the Musical Institute “G. Paisiello” of Taranto, recognized as Public Conservatory.
Bborn in Bari in 1967, graduated in cello under he guidance of Vito Paternoster at the Conservatory "N. Piccinni" of Bari. She specialised with Amedeo Baldovino and Michael Flaksman and followed chamber music classes of the Trio of Trieste at the Music School of Fiesole, the Advanced International School of Duino and at the Chigiana Academy of Siena, where she recieved twice consecutevly an Honorable Mention Diploma. Under the Trio of Trieste Buccarella founded the Clara Haskil trio with which she not only had an intense concert activity, but also dedicated herself continuosly to a duo chamber repertoire together with the piano player Francesco Monopoli, always receiving the public and critics’ favour. She is a founder and first cello of the chamber orchestra Collegium Musicum" of Bari, with which she had a repertoire, enriched with famous and rare pieces- Pierrot Lunaire and Ode a Napoleone by A. Schoenberg, Tabula Rasa by A. Part, Serenata per archi, Notturno and Andante Cantabile for Cello and Strings (as soloist) by P.J. Ciaijkovskij, Das Lied von der Erde of G. Malher, El Amor Brujo by M. de Falla, Der Burger als Edelmann of R. Strauss, Concerto grosso for Strings and Piano obbligato by E.Bloch, Divertimento for Strings by B. Bartòk and many other – and has collaborated with soloists of great prestige , Giuliano Carmignola, Aldo Ciccolini, Michael Czerny, Susanna Mildonian, Angelo Persichilli, Victoria Schneider, Daniela Uccello, Emilia Fadini, Gigi Proietti, Elio Pandolfi, Sergio Fiorentino, Bernarda Fink and Micaela Esdra. Always together with the Collegium Musicum, she recorded a CD the opus of N. Piccinni Le Donne Vendicate (Bongiovanni), Das Lied von der Erde by Mahler/Schoenberg and sacred compositions of the ‘700’s, authers from Puglia, also for the national broadcasting system, RAI Radiotre. Buccarella collaborated with numerous orchestras, vocal and instrumental and the Italian Fiesole Youth Orchestra, the Opera Theatre of Rome, the Petruzzelli Theatre of Bari, the Rossini Opera Festival of Pesaro, the Nuova Scarlatti Orchestra of Naples, the Magna Grecia Orchestra of Taranto, the Symphonic Orchestra for the Province of Bari, the Orchestra Ensemble "I Solisti dell'Opera Italiana" (The United Arab Emirates - "Madame Butterfly"). Since 2001 she collaborated with the ethno-pop group Radiodervish, with which she played in numerous concerts and partecipated often in important festivals in Italy and abroad, Paris- Olympia Theatre, Beirut, Brusselles, Athens, Rome for the First of May Concert, Ravenna, Imola, Turin, Milan, Carrara, "Arezzo Wave Festival", "Friuli Folkest 2002", Sanremo-" Tenco Prize”, “Mantova’s Festival ”, Ancona, Catania, Palermo, Agrigento, Bari and others. She recorded three CDs: “Radiodervish in Acustico”, "Centro del Mundo" and "In search of Simurgh". Always with Radiodervish she worked often with the Israeli singer Noa. She also played with the “Vertere String Quartet”, group which collaborates with the argentinian sax player Javier Girotto. She teaches cello at the Music Conservatory " N. Piccinni" of Bari. Luigi Giannatempo Composer,
Arranger, Orchestrator Special mention by the jury, chairman Enrico Pierannunzi, for the “Tre Passi nel Delirio” musical competition of Roccella Jonica. His pieces have been played and recorded in Italy and abroad. He has collaborated with the Marco Tiso Big Band, guests: Paolo Fresu, Danilo Terenzi, the “Bergamo Big Band” with Rudy Migliardi, Gianluigi Trovesi, Emilio Soana, the “ Veneto Jazz” Festival Orchestra, guests: John Mosca, Cecil Bridgewater, Fabio Morgera, Dick Oatts, the Jazz Orchestra of Sardinia, guests: Paolo Fresu, Giovanni Amato, Flavio Boltro, the “Euro Jazz Big Band” of Paris, , the National Youth Jazz Orchestra, the “Dolmen Orchestra”, guests: Gianluigi Trovesi, Nguyen Lè, the Zurich Jazz Orchestra, the summer’s Siena’s Big Band seminars, the Jazz Orchestra of the Manhattan Music School of New York, the “Donna Olimpia” Big Band in Rome, a concert broadcasted on Rai Radio Tre, the “Puglia Big Band” with Roberto Ottaviano, Gianni Lenoci, the Symphonic Orchestra of Valle D’Itria, the Association “Massimo Urbani” Orchestra of Rome, guests: Cicci Santucci, Sandro Satta, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Luigi Bonafede, Riccardo Fassi, Nicola Stilo, Marcello Rosa., broadcast on Radio Tre for the program “Jazz suite”, the Trio of Guido Di Leone with Giuseppe Bassi and Massimo Manzi. He participated as director and arranger of the saxophone ensemble of the Bari Pentagramma at the “Festival delle Scuole di Musica”of Palermo. He has also composed and arranged for string quartet, sax quartet, wind quintet, string ensemble and choir. He has also worked an arranged for pop music and has directed several vocal ensembles, Raiuno, Musical, theatrical performances and concerts. He dedicated himself to the teaching of composition and arrangement classes in seminars for Conservatories and privet schools.
Sax - soprano-baritone -flute -bass clarinet - quenas - sicus - composer - arranger Javier was born in Cordoba ( Argentina ) April 17 1965. He now is an Italian citizen and lives in Rome. He enroled at the Conservatorio Provincial De Cordoba, clarinet and traverso flute in order to have classical curriculum srudies, arriveing to the fifth year of conservatory for both the instruments (all becouse there was no sax class, and his real desire was to continue sax studies ). After a long activity in Argentina as musician, at age 19 he obtained a scholar-ship fot the United States at the “Berklee College of Music”. So at age 21, he moved to Boston where he studied four years in the famous university, and graduated in “Professional Music” “Magnum cum Laude”. Among the american performances we remenber important collaborations with Danilo Perez, George Garzone, Hall Crook, Bob Moses, Herb Pomeroy, Bob Moses and many oyher local musicians. At age 25 he visited Italy to know the natal country of his family, coming from Puglia. Once in Rome he decided not to return in the U.S.A. and choosed this town to live in. The first group he created in Rome is “TERCER MUNDO” together with Horacio “El Negro” Hernandez (latin jazz) sextet with piano, bass, percussions, drums, trumpet and sax; at the same time he began to write and arrange a new repertoire for another group that will be named “ SIX SAX “, with which he will record his first CD, with guests as Bob Mintzer e Randy Brecker. The group is formed by a sax quartet with bass and drums. From this moment he started mixing jazz with his argentinian roots, he began writing and thinking at the kind of music that today is well esemplificated by the group ““AIRES TANGO” with which he has already recorded nine CDs. Aires Tango is for him essentially a creative cocktail of tango, jazz, ethnical music, much improvisation and a lot of writing and arranging. The group is formed by piano, bass, percussions ans sax. At the same time of Aires Tang,o he began collaborating with the quintet of Roberto Gatto (drums), with whom he plays since eight years, with Rita Marcotulli, Nada, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Gianluca Petrella, Bebo Ferra, Antonello Salis, Gianni Coscia, Peppe Servillo, Angà Diaz, Furio Di Castri, Tony Scott, Arto Tuncboiacian, Michel Benita, Carlo Rizzo, Aldo Romano, Luis Agudo, Maurizio Giammarco, Stefano Battaglia, Michel Godard, Anouar Brahem, Gianluigi Trovesi , Ornella Vanoni, Jeff Ballard, Ed Simon, Ben Street, PmjO, and many others. In 1999 another group was formed, with which he had more chances of using the argentinian folkloristical rhthms and, obviously, tango. “CORDOBA REUNION” is a group formed by four musicians coming from the same town and with the same folklore and traditional background. The quartet has recorded a CD with the collaboration of the singer “Mercedes Sosa”. We see them every year in a tour mainly in France and nothern Europe such as Holand and Belgium. In year 2000 he formed the duo with Daniele Di Bonaventura (bandoneon), with whom he recorded two CDs: “JAVIER GIROTTO PLAYS RAVA” and “RECORDANDO PIAZZOLLA”, with the enrichment of a thirteen string element orchestra, in this CD Girotto, for the first time, could accomplish the desire of playing and record the original compositions of the argentinian bandoneonist together with improvisation. Almost in contemporary another duo was created, with Luciano Biondini (accordion), with whom he recorded two CDs, conteining original compositions and returning to the most free improvisation. The first disc is of 2002 fo the label Philology “ El Cacerolazo”, the second in 2005 for the label ENJA RECORDS “Terra Madre”. Also this second duo shows them protagonists in festivals and clubs in Italy and even more in Germany, Austria and Eastern Europe. Alwaysl in 2000 he was called to be part of “ONJ” (Orchestre National du Jazz) of Paris, a one year collaboration. In 2002 he joined the di Enrico Rava “Piano less” quartet with whom he recorded a CD, “Full of Life” together with Ares Tavolazzi and Fabrizio Sferra. He played and still does, in the most important festivals, theatres, musical reviews and jazz italian clubs such as, the “Ambra Jovinelli” Theatre , “Villa Celimontana - Jazz Image”, “La Palma - Fandango”, Quirinale - SalaConcerti, Radio RAI 3, Roccella Ionica, “La Sapienza” University, Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, medicine and Surgery “Agostino Gemelli, Literature and Philosophy Tor Vergata University, “Piccinni” Theatre of Bari, Massenzio- Rome, Mercati Traiani - Rome, “Casa del Jazz” in Rome, “Jazz & Wine” of Cormon, Montalcino, Altomonte, Auditorium in Rome and Santa Cecilia, the Repub. Of Argentina’s Embassy, the Italian Culture in Nairobi.
MUSIC AND LITERATURE
He collaborated with Ivano Marescotti “C’era tre volte”
by Raffaello Baldini with Lella Costa and Arnoldo Foà. “Le
Mille e una Notte . Sherazade”. With Valerio Mastrandrea “San
Isidro Futbol”. With Leo Gullotta, Salman Rushdi, Tony Servillo,
Zadie Smith, Elisabetta Rasy. His concert activity is hinged on
the following groups: Discs by Javier Girotto
Discografia Sideman
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GIUSEPPE
AMATULLI
Ida
Ninni 
Began
his violin studies at the “G. Paisiello” Music High School
of Taranto and continued under the guidance of Maetsro Pasquale Melucci,
Professor at the Conservatory of Monopoli, and afterwards got his
diploma and specialised under the guidance of Maestro Raimondo Matacena,
first violin at the Teatro Regio of Turin. 
GIOVANNA
BUCCARELLA
JAVIER
EDGARDO GIROTTO
Other
concerts abroad: