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Enzo Favata The Crossing Concert – FREE EVENT

Date: 16 April 2023

Venue: Shouson Theatre, Hong Kong Arts Centre, 2 Harbour Road, Wan Chai

Time: 8pm – 10pm

 

Registration required. Register here.

 

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Event Update on 4th April 2023

Please note that Pasquale Mirra was injured in an accident and could not perform at the concert on 16th April 2023. Enzo Favata the Crossing will continue to perform as a trio in the concert.

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The nonconformist musical multi-instrumentalist Enzo Favata brings a new band to the international scene.

 

The Sardinian saxophone wizard has an unquenchable spirit of adventure, and here he is with a new band that makes his music seem even more vital and essential. It is a fresh musical mix, with vibes and electronics, electric piano bass synths and live electronics, drums that create wonderfully light and springy atmospheres for Favata’s slender soprano and delightful deep, dark clarinet.

 

To interpret new suggestions and new sound colors, Favata brought together the pianist and composer Simone Graziano, in an original guise of synth bass, keyboards & live electronics. To the vibraphone Pasquale Mirra, considered one of the masters of this instrument. He completes the Marco Frattini quartet on drums and drum machine.

 

Music opens up to the world of new generations and to the sounds of current music, but always with a vision that confronts the magical realism of the poetics of the multi- instrumentalist Enzo Favata. The sound alternates between electronic music, jazz, cosmic rock, Ethiopian and Balinese sounds, in a kaleidoscope of colors and melodies.

 

Enzo Favata: soprano sax, bass clarinet, soprano bandoneon & live electronics
Pasquale Mirra: midi marimba, samplers & live electronics
Simone Graziano: bass synth live electronics & piano Rhodes
Marco Frattini: drums and samplers

 

About Enzo Favata

In his long career he has played with his projects in many prestigious festivals and stages around the world. He has played and recorded with great musicians: the master of the Argentine bandoneon Dino Saluzzi, Enrico Rava Miroslav Vitous, Mulatu Astatk Trilok Gurtu , Sajnkho Namtchylak ancestral voice of Tuva, the trumpeter Lester Bowie, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Metropole Orkest, Dave Liebman, Brazilian guitarist Guinga, Omar Sosa, Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset, Django Bates and other great musicians around the world such as Paolo Vinaccia, Daniele Di Bonaventura, Tenores di Bitti and Tenores from Orosei (megalithic voices from Sardinia), the singer Dudu Manhenga, Hope Masike, Ivan Mazuze, the Scottish musicians Colin Steele and Dave Milligan and many others. He currently has 2active CDs.

 

He is also the author of “soundscapes” performances for museums and exhibitions, film soundtracks. In 2017 JazzIT Awards was nominated among the best 3 Italian jazz sopranists. Favata is also artistic director of the International Jazz Festival MUSICA SULLE BOCCHE, which has been held for 17 years in Santa Teresa Gallura (Sardinia) and is one of the most famous events of the Italian jazz scene, characterized both by its always innovative program as well as the his sensitivity to themes such as the environment and the landscape.

 

About Pasquale Mirra

He is considered one of the most engaging and active vibraphonists of the current national and international music scene. He has several commitments with musicians such as Hamid Drake, with whom he collaborates on several projects both in America and in Europe.

 

In 2005 he joined the Bassesfere association, a collective of musicians engaged in the development and dissemination of improvised music. He collaborated with the band Mop Mop and took part in the creation of the soundtracks of the film “To Rome with Love”, directed by Woody Allen Pasquale Mirra is considered one of the most engaging and active vibraphonists of the current national and international. music scene. He has several commitments with musicians such as Hamid Drake, with whom he collaborates on several projects both in America and in Europe.

 

About Simone Graziano

One of the most interesting pianists, keyboardists of the Italian schena, Simone Graziano in recent years is establishing himself mainly for his skills as a pianist and composer, giving life to a type of music that is influencing the new generation of Italian musicians.

 

Born in Florence, he graduated with full marks in classical piano under the guidance of Maestro Stefano Fiuzzi at the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence. At the same time as classical music, he deepens the study of jazz language by attending the Berklee School of Music in Boston and obtaining a master’s degree in jazz composition and arrangement. He studied with masters such as John Taylor, Kenny Wheeler, Mulgrew Miller, Riccardo Fassi, Enrico Pieranunzi, Stefano Bollani, Franco D ‘Andrea, Aaron Goldberg.

 

About Marco Frattini

He started studying drums at an early age. He specialized in jazz language under the guidance of great masters, in Italy and in the United States, where he studied at Berklee College of Music and at the New England Conservatory in Boston (with Bob Moses, Terri Lyne Carrington, Skip Hadden, John Ramsay) His whirlwind activity has led him to collaborate with numerous artists belonging to the world of jazz (Pietro Tonolo, George Garzone, Howard Levy, Nigel Price, Ross Stanley, Štefan Bartuš, Tom Kirkpatrick, Randy Bernsen, Flavio Boltro, Max Ionata, Fabio Morgera , Giovanni Amato …), and not only (Omar Lye-Fook, James Thompson, Marco Sabiu, Joseph Bowie, Will Weldon Robertson, M + A, Santa Margaret …), the songwriter (Gianmaria Testa, Max Manfredi. ..) and of the theater (Alessio Boni, Umberto Scida …)

 

He has played in England, France, Denmark, Holland, Austria, Germany, Switzerland, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Croatia and Italy participating in important national and international festivals and competitions (Glastonbury Festival, Babel Med, Roskilde Festival, Norwich Sound & Vision, Eurosonic Festival, Simple Thing Festival, MTV Days, Reeperbahn Festival, Nitra Jazz Festival, Jazz Fair 2018, Bologna Jazz Festival, Fabrizio De Andrè Award, Bassano Opera Festival, Crossroads, BIA, Jazzahead! Festival, Tenco Award, Folkest, Tango Y Mas, roBOt Festival …) and various radio and television programs (MTV Days, RAI 2 Tenco sera, RAI 3 Gazebo, RADIO 2 Caterpillar, RADIO 3 Il Terzo Anello and Fahrenheit …) He has over fifty recordings and various theatrical productions to his credit.

  • Organized by: Italian Cultural Institute Hong Kong