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 Born
in Bari (Italy), Vito Di Modugno began his musical studies very early. Guided
by his father Pino Di Modugno, an experienced and well-known accordionist,
he studied piano,organ, electric bass and upright bass. His gave his first public
performance at age five and at age 11, made his debut in his father's orchestra.
 In
1976 he began studying piano with Maestro
Binetti, earning his diploma in 1984. The
same year, he was one of several winners of the musical contest "Coppa pianisti
d'Italia". He attended masterclasses with Medori and Caporali; jazz
seminars by
Michael Brecker and
Pat Metheny,
and courses at Siena
Jazz.
From 1996 to
1999 he was on tour with Patty Pravo, recording two CDs and
a DVD.
He has recorded several CDs with "Red
Records": as leader on "Organ
Grooves", with his group comprising Sandro Gibellini (guitar),
Fabrizio Bosso
(trumpet), Stefano
D'Anna (tenor sax),
Massimo
Manzi (drums) and Pino Di Modugno (accordion); again as leader
on his second CD, "Organ Trio", with
Pietro Condorelli
(guitar) and
Massimo
Manzi (drums); as sideman on Pino Di Modugno's CD "Bedouin";
and on Sicilian pianist
Salvatore
Bonafede's "Paradoxa".
 In
2003 he was voted among the best new talents
in "Musica Jazz" magazine's "Top Jazz" poll.
He participated as soloist in concerts with the Symphony Orchestra "Arturo
Toscanini" of Parma directed by Beppe D'Onghia, playing Jon Lord's
concerto written in 1969 for The Deep Purple.
He presently teaches in Bari at the "Pentagramma" Music School and the
Conservatory "N.Piccinni".
 Discographic's
collaborations: Patty Pravo, Articolo 31, Michele Carrabba,
Mario Rosini,
Guido Di
Leone ,
Fabrizio
Bosso , Pino Di Modugno, Massimo Manzi, Sandro
Gibellini,
Stefano
D'Anna , Michele Di Monte, Giovanni Tommaso,
Tiziana Ghiglioni, Michele Fazio,
Mino
Petruzzelli ,
Mimmo
Campanale , Massimo Carafa, Francesco Palmitessa,
Lorenzo Tucci.
More collaborations: Irio De Paula, Urbie Green, Tony Scott,
Kim Plainfield, Rachel Gould, Romano Mussolini, Cicci Santucci,
Enrico Rava, Gianluca Petrella, Ettore Fioravanti,
Gianni
Coscia , Bruno Marini, Renato Chicco, Tullio
De Piscopo, Gianni Basso, Sarah Jane Morris, Nick the Nightfly,
Lou Blackbourn, Mariella Carbonara, Paola Arnesano, Antonio
Di Lorenzo, Marco Sannini,
Pietro
Condorelli , Andrea Pozza, Patrizia Conte, Billy
Cobham,
Mimmo Cafiero , Jazz Studio Orchestra,
Larry Franco
e Dixiinitaly, Claudio Colasazza, Eddy Palermo,
Rocco
Zifarelli , Emanuele Basentini, Rossana Casale,
ecc…
Educational books:
Metodo tecnico-pratico per Basso Elettrico a 4 e 5 corde Edizioni
Curci-Milano (1993)
Le scale del Musicista jazz (con diteggiature pianistiche) Edizioni Wide
Sound (2000)
Discography:
Leader
 VITO
DI MODUGNO "Meriggio" Promo Jazz-IRD
(1994)
VITO DI MODUGNO
"Organ Grooves" Red Records
(2002)
FAZIO - DI MODUGNO - PETRUZZELLI "Percorsi"
Panastudio-Carish (1998)
DI LEONE – DI MODUGNO – CAMPANALE "Con
Alma" YVP-IRD (2000)
EQUINOX TRIO
"Break out"
Lush Tales (2001)
Sideman
PATTY PRAVO "Bye Bye Patty"
Sony Music (1997)
PATTY PRAVO "Live al Piper"
(video) Sony Music (1997)
PINO DI MODUGNO "No quello!…Quello!"
Pindisc (2001)
PATTY PRAVO "Patty Live 99"
Sony Music (2001)
PINO DI MODUGNO "Good Life"
Red Records (2003)
Contacts and Information:
Vito Di Modugno
email: vitodimodugno@libero.it
mySpace:
http://www.myspace.com/vitodimodugno1
sito: http://www.vitodimodugno.it
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