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04/27/2024 – From 29 to 30 April the program of Pesaro, Italian capital of culture 2024, is enriched with the third edition of the Rossini Jazz Festival, an event created and curated by the Jazz School of the Rossini Conservatory. Once again teachers and students will find themselves on the same stage in the exploration of heterogeneous vocal and instrumental styles on the occasion of the celebrations for the International Jazz Day proclaimed by UNESCO in 2011.
Housed in the Noble Hall of Gradari Palace, the Festival will offer an intense program on the theme of composition in jazz: matinees with conference-concerts (11 am); concerts and improvisations in the afternoon (4.30 pm).
The inauguration of the Festival (29 April, 11 am) will be entrusted to Vincenzo Presta and Massimiliano Rocchetta with a conference-concert dedicated to the sonorization of the word in the song genre; in the matinee of April 30 (11 am) Gian Marco Gualandi will explain the language of the big band to neophytes, enthusiasts and experts, in a sort of ‘musical walk’ between historical notes, listening and some analysis of orchestral scores.
The afternoon concerts (4.30 pm) will see a succession of instruments and various types of ensembles focused on the compositions of students and teachers of the Jazz School. The School’s teachers will take turns leading the exploration of musical creativity – Gian Marco Gualandi (composition), Mauro Campobasso (guitar), Daniele Mencarelli (electric bass), Alessia Obino (singing), Massimiliano Rocchetta (piano), Lorenzo Tucci (drums) – each with the specificity of their own instrument but alongside and together with the others. Among the students are already well-known voices, such as Arianna Cleri, or emerging ones, such as the drummer Marco Agostini and the bassist Nicolò Fertili, winners of scholarships at the Berklee College of Music in Boston. The composition of the present will not forget its roots, and the sonic charm of the instrumental will be combined with contemporary jazz for a group of voices only.
At the end of the first day a special event: the Late Night Show. In collaboration with Pesaro Jazz Club, at 10 pm at the GRA’ in Palazzo Gradari a jam session which will see the Rossini School of Jazz ‘duel’ with no holds barred with the jazz musicians from Pesaro until late at night. On April 30th, on the occasion of International Jazz Day, the Festival will end, as per tradition, with a series of combos, without a pre-ordained stylistic premise but only with the desire to express oneself ‘in jazz’ and with an exceptional guest: Massimo Morgantiarranger and Italian trombone star among the best known and appreciated in the area.
Created in collaboration with the Province of Pesaro and Urbino, Pesaro 2024, Pesaro Jazz Club, and under the patronage of the Municipality of Pesaro, the Rossini Jazz Festival – declares Mauro Campobasso, coordinator of the Festival and jazz guitar teacher at the Rossini Conservatory – carries forward the premise of the first edition: «establish an artistic and creative collaboration between teachers and students, in which the masters of the Rossini School of Jazz weave a canvas with multiple textures in interaction with their students for the production of original projects, designed specifically to the Festival. For the third edition – continues Campobasso – we chose composition as the theme due to the specificity with which the creative act is carried out in jazz, with the aim of showing how, starting from the history of the genre, ‘composing in jazz’ has heavily modified, in parallel with the evolution of the genre itself.”
Free entry while seats last. For information and programs: www.conservatoriorossini.it
