Torino Jazz Festival Piedmont, the Biella area is also on the program with 8 dates, PHOTO – Newsbiella.it

“Confartigianato has always been at the side of the Torino Jazz Festival, and this year too it couldn’t fail to be so”, began Cristiano Gatti, president of Confartigianato Biella, at a press conference this morning, Thursday 16 May, who did the honors at the presentation of the great event which this year was held at the association’s headquarters in via Galimberti. “It will continue to do so, and among the new features is the involvement of the Biella area, where 8 concerts will be held, in Verrone, Piedicavallo, in the magnificent location of Piazza Del Monte in Biella and at Spazio Hydro”. Among the protagonists of the great musical event 2024 edition, also Bolle di Malto.

The first appointment of the Torino Jazz Festival Piemonte will be on May 24th in Turin, ending on October 5th in the Novara area. The calendar includes 26 concerts in 16 municipalities in Piedmont which will involve over 100 artists from the 8 provinces of the region. The first of the concerts will be in Turin at the headquarters of the Reale Mutua Archive Museum, which will be possible to visit for the occasion.

The festival was born from the institutional relationship between the Turin Culture Foundation and the Turin Jazz Festival with the Piemonte dal Vivo Foundation, in collaboration with the Piemonte Jazz Consortium. The project benefits from the shared artistic direction of Stefano Zenni (director of the Torino Jazz Festival), Fulvio Albano and Diego Borotti (Consorzio Piemonte Jazz) and the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo. The festival is organized with the support of Reale Mutua and the sponsors Ancos APS and Confartigianato Imprese Piemonte.

«We are proud to present today in Biella the sixth edition of TJF Piemonte, born in 2019 from the collaboration between Piemonte dal Vivo, Fondazione per la Cultura Torino and the Piemonte Jazz Consortium, united by the passion for music and the irreducible conviction of spreading the great talents of jazz music throughout the regional territory – declared Matteo Negrin, director of Piemonte dal Vivo -. Thanks to the collaboration with the TJF and the Consorzio Piemonte Jazz, together with the participation of local partners and the support of the sponsors, this year the TJF Piemonte will involve over 100 artists in theatres, squares and other unusual contexts – characterized by a ‘authentic artistic and landscape beauty – with 26 events starting from the month of May».

«I am happy that the musical energy released by the Torino Jazz Festival throughout the city is now spreading throughout the region, thanks to the Torino Jazz Festival Piemonte. A unique project in Italy, which travels to all the provinces, further amplifying the spirit of the Turin festival: big international names, young musicians with fresh ideas, masters of Italian jazz, and above all the openness to the most diverse genres, including electronic and rap. Because jazz is now increasingly the lingua franca of the best music today” declares Stefano Zenni, director of the Torino Jazz Festival.

«Torino Jazz Festival Piemonte, a shared showcase of the excellent realities active in the area, today has an international profile. It is a widespread festival – promoted and created by Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, Fondazione per la Cultura Torino and Consorzio Piemonte Jazz – which unfolds along a varied route, discovering evocative places in Piedmont. PJ continues its function as a collector of resources, of knowledge, of public requests, of new actors: a patient journey punctuated by jazz music and its languages ​​that validate tradition, history, contemporaneity and innovation of this immortal music” add Fulvio Albano and Diego Borotti for the Piemonte Jazz Consortium.

The sixth edition will open on May 24th in Turin at 9pm in the courtyard of Palazzo Biandrate which will be animated by Rebel Bit, a team of musicians, vocal music and electronic experimentation with Giulia Cavallera, Lorenzo Subrizi, Paolo Tarolli, Guido Giordana (vocals ) and Andrea Trona (sound). And then many events and artists for a real jazz tour of Piedmont in the municipalities of Alessandria, Almese (TO), Asti, Baveno (VCO), Biella, Bruino (TO), Exilles (TO), Fontanetto Po (VC) , Gozzano (NO), Ivrea, (TO), Novara, Piedicavallo (BI), Racconigi (CN), Turin, Verrone (BI), Visone (AL).

These are the events in the Biella area:

Thursday 8 August 2024 at 5pm
Falseum Museum Verrone Castle (BI)
SIMONE LOCARNI & PAOLO PASQUALIN – TRAVELS DUO
Simone Locarni piano
Paolo Pasqualin percussion
UNDERGROUND aps

Friday 16 August 2024 at 5.30 pm
Waldensian temple, Piedicavallo (BI)
LINO GOAT VACCINE
Lino Capra Vaccina percussion, live electronics
UNDERGROUND aps

Saturday 17 August 2024 at 5.30 pm
Waldensian temple, Piedicavallo
GABRIELE GASPAROTTI & BENEDETTA DAZZI
Benedetta Dazzi cello, live electronics
UNDERGROUND aps

Sunday 18 August 2024 at 5.30pm
Waldensian temple of Piedicavallo (BI)
electric guitar
Adrian Utley electric guitar
Stefano Pilia electric guitar, modular system
UNDERGROUND aps

Friday 30 August 2024 at 9.30pm
Piazza del Monte BIELLA
KOAN JAZZ QUARTET FEAT. ANDREA TOFANELLI
Andrea Tofanelli trumpet
Francesco Santucci saxophones
Max Tempia hammond organ
Massimo Serra battery

Saturday 31 August 2024 at 9.30pm
Piazza del Monte BIELLA
PIEDMONT JAZZ MESSENGERS
Fulvio Albano tenor sax
Aldo Zunino double bass
PIEDMONT JAZZ CONSORTIUM

Sunday 1 September 2024 at 9.30pm
DIEGO BOROTTI JAZZ TRIO FEAT. KARIMA
Diego Borotti saxophones
Luca Guarino drums
PIEDMONT JAZZ CONSORTIUM