Giancarlo Parisi - Artist Page
Giancarlo Parisi
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Biography:
 

Giancarlo was born in Messina but has been living in Catania since 2005. He began his musical activity as a composer and director of theatre music and went on to become a major figure on the Italian jazz scene as a saxophonist. In 1992 he released his first solo album L'Otre Di Eolo, followed in '93 by Giancarlo Parisi.

In 1997 he participated in and won the Folkcontest di Casale Monferrato and went on to participate in the same year in the Festival Interceltique di Lorient (Brittany). In 1998 he joined ranks with The Chieftains, with whom he performed as soloist along with l'Orchestra del Tetro Massimo di Palermo in the Teatro di Verdura and went on to record on the album Natale a Roma released by BMG.

In 2003 he collaborated with the drummer Stewart Copland from The Police, the arranger Vittorio Cosma and the English percussion quartet Ensemble Bash for the production of the show La notte della taranta by Melpignano and the subsequent CD.

He has developed and patented a "chromatic" model of the zampogna so that, like the ancient diatonica, this fairly inaccessible instrument is now opened up to previously unthinkable musical languages and possibilities.

Official Web Site: http://www.myspace.com/giancarloparisi

Discography:
 

L'Otre Di Eolo (1992)

Giancarlo Parisi (1993)

Natale a Roma (BMG, 1998)
Similar Music:
 
Italian, Zampogna