BIO

88 is a versatile highly qualified and awarded pianist and composer with a very eclectic musical personality.

He performed in Brussels, London, Milan, Naples and in several other italian cities, collecting great success and being extimated as a very communicative and charming musician.

Great worldwide personalities such as Héctor Ulises Passarella, Rodion Shchedrin, Frederic Rzewski, Yoshiko Okada and others have appreciated him both as a fine composer and a pianist, with an excellent consideration of his talent.

He graduated in music (Piano post-MA and Composition BA), won 'On Piano Creativity' international contest and a scholarship.

He studied at Conservatoire of Fermo, Conservatoire of Milan, Incontri col Maestro Academy of Imola and École de Musique Mozart in Bruxelles.

He also composes music for theatre, TV and media.

Numerous experiences with improvisation and experimentations in various genres like modern classic, ambient, jazz and psychedelic led him to create a brand new style he called 'Molecular Jazz'. This colorful, rhythmical and highly contaminated jazz music treats genres such as acid-jazz, deep house, lounge, fusion, funk, latin and grunge as they were classic large form genres, with pretty much the same point of view of Chopin, Janacek, Bartok and Kodaly on folk music of their own respective countries. Yet here the country is the world with its huge variety of pop musical genres.