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Lucio Franco Amanti
cello, composition, arrangements
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 "Lucio
Amanti is a fine cellist and a very imaginative composer I enjoy his work very much"
-Janos Starker
Italian cellist and composer, Amanti´s music is characterized by the integration
of jazz and pop idiom into classical music forms.
Amanti studies in Italy and USA at the "Jacobs" Indiana University School of
music, receiving a Performer Diploma and a Master of Music in Cello and "Jazz studies"
with Janos Starker and David N. Baker.
Now Resident in Munich Germany, he alternates solo and composer career with collaborations
ranging from Jazz to electronic music with artists like: Sue McKenzie (Salsa Celtica),
Mohammed Reza Mortazavi, Ben Lukas Boysen (HECQ).
Since 2008 Amanti writes for commercials and Audiovisual (clients Audi, Siemens,
Real); his instrumental compositions are published by Schott Music and are regularly
performed by both students and established musicians such as: Eckart Runge (Artemis
Quartet), Casals Quartet, Armida Quartet.
Lucio Amanti has also recorded two Solo albums, welcomed enthusiastically from
both public and critics, that opened him the doors to international music stages
such as: Jazz festival Edinburgh, der Leverkusener Jazz Tage, Rottweil Jazz Festival,
"Theater on the Square Nelson Mandela" Johannesburg and the Salle Cortot and the
UNESCO palace in Paris.
As a teacher M. Amanti gives lecture worldwide for institutions such as University
of the Arts (UDK) in Berlin, Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz Munich, UNISA South Africa,
Indiana University and the international chamber music festival in Hohenstaufen
(Germany).
Contacts and Information:
Lucio Amanti
web: www.jazzcello.net
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Last Modified Date: 23/07/2016
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