Javier Girotto / Luciano Biondini & Paolo Silvestri Ensemble
“ANIVERSARIO”

The new project from the Festival Musicale del Mediterraneo was born from the encounter between Javier Girotto and Paolo Silvestri who for a long time, have worked together to blend traditional argentinian music with fine european music and with jazz, through written composition and improvvisation.

This collaboration began in 2002 with the recording of a disc called “ Aniversario”, with Girotto’s compositions, playd together with the group of Aires Tango and the symphonic orchestra of Sofia, with the arrangements and direction of Silvestri.

This occasion offers a special ensemble with eight wind instruments and a doublebass with both classical and jazz musicians. Among the foremost figures of the evening there is also Luciano Biondini, accordion virtuoso and improvvisor improvisor, an argentinian music conaisseur and frequent partener of Girotto, he is experienced with encounters between different musical genders. Javier Girotto, one of the most important argentinian saxophone players and composers, born in Cordoba, has a strong bond to tango and other popular styles of his country that he reinterprets through improvisation, realizing a new and personal language.

After important collaboration such as with Bob Mintzer and Randy Brecker, he created the group “Aires Tango” and following that the "Cordoba Reunion" with which he fully expressed his musical characteristics.Paolo Silvestri, composer, arranger and orchestra director, other than working in the years with cinema and theatre, enlarged his experimentation of new languages through jazz and contemporary music up to worldmusic.

His numerous projects mix jazz with the symphonic orchestra, collaborating upon the occasion with musicians such as Enrico Rava, Gato Barbieri, Ivano Fossati, Stefano Bollani, Roberto Gatto, Luciano Biondini, accordian, after classical studies and numerous national and international awards, comes closest to jazz starting upon a concert career that leads him to partecipate in numerous festivals in various parts of Europe such as Umbria Jazz Winter, Festival dei Due Mondi, Metronome and others.

He has to his credit important collaborations including Tony Scott, Enrico Rava, Battista Lena, Gabriele Mirabassi, Marteen Van der Grinten. The programe offers music composed by Girotto and Silvestri who also made the arrangements.

Javier Girotto sax soprano sax baritone
Luciano Biondini accordion
Paolo Silvestri direction and arrangements
Giampaolo Casati trumpet,
Luca Begonia trombone,
Vladimiro Cainero horn,
Marco Moro flute, ottavino
Mario Arcari oboe, english horn,
Guido Bombardieri clarinet,
Mosè Chiavoni clarinet bass,
Alessio Pisani bassoon,
Marco Ricci doublebass.

Technical Rider
for the accordion: 3 cables cannon microphonic (phantom) box ( with 3 microphones)
For the sax soprano: 2 microphones 58 or else 1 condensor
For the trumpet, trombone, horn 3 microphones 58
For the flute, oboe, clarinet,bass clarinet, bassoon 6 microphones condensor
For the doublebass (has its microphone and loudspeaker)
8 Stage speakers
1 music stand for the director
13 music stands