Piero Gaddi | piano
Fabrizio Desideri | clarinet, soprano saxophone
Andrea Beninati | cello, drums
Filippo Pedol | double bass
feat.
Bjørn Solli | guitar
Piero Gaddi has played at many Italian festivals, in France, Germany, Norway, Spain, Poland, Mozambique. Among others with Ivan Mazuze, Mike Turk, Bjorn Vidar Solli, Flavio Boltro, Paolo Fresu, Tom Lorenz, Paolino Dalla Porta, Alessandro Fabbri, Fabio Morgera, Pietro Tonolo, Marco Micheli, Marco Tamburini, Hans Mathisen, Guy Sion, Per Mathisen, Francesco Ponticelli, Bernardo Guerra, Raciel Torres, Mirco Guerrini, Deborah Davis, Ruben Chaviano, Alfred Kramer, Francesco Petreni, Stelio Mondlane, Adam Lemańczyk, Scott Hamilton.
A classically trained pianist, he perfected his skills at Siena Jazz and later graduated in jazz at the Livorno Conservatory with honors. marks. He also holds a degree in musicology from the D.A.M.S. in Bologna with top grades. He currently coordinates the jazz department at the La Spezia conservatory where he holds the chair of jazz piano. He has taught at the Conservatory of Lucca and for 15 years jazz piano at the conservatory of Livorno. A multifaceted artist, in 1998 he founded the quartet Inter Nosper for which he composes original pieces and with which he performs at numerous festivals and records two CDs (“Por Rufina Amaya” and “Figures in the Background”). He then performs in France in Cannes. He accompanies some excellent soloists such as. Karima Ammar, Federica Gennai, Petra Magoni, Michela Lombardi. In 2006 and 2008 he plays in Munich with different ensembles.
In trio with Fabrizio Desideri and Paolino Dalla Porta he has a collaboration on original repertoires that he presents in some national festivals. He plays some years in duo with Cuban violinist Ruben Chaviano original and traditional pieces using elements of Latin American music, cultured music and jazz. In 2007 he founded the Jubilum Jazz Chorus in which he reworks the repertoire liturgical, pop and rock in a jazz-gospel key. He wins with the choir the First Absolute Prize at the International Competition of Asti in 2012 and the First Absolute Prize at the competition “Riviera Etrusca” in 2017. He records two CDs for “Vinyl” (“Amazing Grace” and “Jubilum Jazz Christmas”). In 2018 with the JJC he is invited to perform at the institute of Italian culture in Cologne. In 2014 he participates in C.R.I.G., a collective with which he reworks and rearranges in a jazz key songs from Garfagnana’s popular culture and performs in some festivals (Bargajazz, Anfiteatro jazz, Massarosa jazzfest);a CD was released at the end of 2015 along with a book published by “Effigi.” With Fabrizio Desideri he has a project for piano and clarinet dedicated to Latin American music “Por una cabeza” that he presents in some festivals Italy. In 2018 he forms the Desideri-Gaddi quartet in which the following also appear. Francesco Petreni and Filippo Pedol with whom he plays in various festivals.
He plays in Ivan Mazuze’s Italian quartet with Francesco Ponticelli and Bernardo Guerra since 2019. In December 2019, he is invited to play in Africa at the “Mozambique Music Meeting” in Maputo with the African quintet of saxophonist Ivan Mazuze. In 2020 he founds the Piero Gaddi Quartet with which he plays original music together with Fabrizio Desideri, Filippo Pedol and Andrea Beninati. With the group in the same year he made his debut at Pisa Jazz and recorded “Opus One” (Vinile Records) hosting Norwegian guitarist Bjorn Solli. He plays with the quartet with guest Solli in some important jazz festivals including “Spejazz,” a jazz festival in La Spezia, at “Trentino jazz” in Trento and Chiavari Jazz. He has a duo project, between acoustic and electric, with the great trumpeter Flavio Boltro. In 2022 he is invited to Poland, to Bydgoszcz, where he plays his music with Adam Lemańczyk, Antoni Olszewski and Mateusz Krawczyk in the great hall of the Akademia Muzyczna. In Norway, in November 2022 he plays at the Haerverk café and the Italian Institute of Culture with his quintet and at the Grand Café in Oslo in a duo with Bjorn Solli.
He plays at the Drammen Theater (Norway) with Per and Hans Mathisen. He plays at the Conservatory of La Coruna with Roberto Somoza
