Antonello Marafioti - Jazz Pianist - Antonello Marafioti
Antonello Marafioti - Jazz Pianist - Antonello Marafioti
Antonello Marafioti - Jazz Pianist - Antonello Marafioti
Description: Antonello Marafioti - Antonello Marafioti, Jazz pianist, composer, sound engineer and music educator began playing piano at 7 years of age. By the time he had turned 20 he had been exposed to Jazz through recordings of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. This encounter permanently altered the course of Mr. Marafioti's musical focus and direction. Jazz, like any true artform, transcends all ethnic, geographic and religious borders.
Born in Rome, Italy in 1962, Antonello Marafioti, Jazz pianist, composer, sound engineer and music educator began playing piano at 7 years of age. By the time he had turned 20 he had been exposed to Jazz through recordings of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane. This encounter permanently altered the course of Mr. Marafioti’s musical focus and direction.
He began his professional career in Viareggio, where he spent three years living and playing. This area of Tuscany, Versilia, has always been an important centre for the arts, (due to Carrara marble), and during the time he lived there many jazz musicians also lived and played in this part of Italy. Through the presence of the great jazz saxophonist Fulvio Sisti, (†1988), Versilia had been visited by prominent jazz musicians including the likes of Chet Baker and others of his caliber. These visiting jazz pl
Arrived in Berlin Antonello devoted himself completely to music and to his little son Davide who always raises in contact with music, also taking him to rehearsals and Jam Session. Every evening he goes out to attend all the Jam Sessions in the city and almost immediately finds himself taking over the direction of the session at the Ellington, a historic Jazz club in Berlin, where Eric Dolphy played his last concert. He is a regular guest at the Schlot , at the Quasimodo , at the Parkhaus where he conducts
Antonello Marafioti - Jazz Pianist - Antonello Marafioti
Antonello Marafioti - Jazz Pianist - Antonello Marafioti
Antonello Marafioti - Jazz Pianist - Antonello Marafioti