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TONY PANCELLA
pianist, composer
Performances in theatres and jazz-clubs and international jazz festivals all over Italy, U.S.A., Germany, Austria, Croatia, Serbia, Hungary, Slovenia, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, France, Greece, UK, Bulgaria, Israel. Many radio and television interviews and concerts broadcasted by italian RAI, DeutschlandRadio, BayernRadio, Croatian Televition, Israel Radio and Television, RIFF (WorldSpace Corporation USA), etc. Best New Talent in Italy (Rome 1989) in a competition organized by Rome's most prominent jazz-club: the “Music Inn” and Best New Emerging Italian Jazz Group (Forli' 1990) at the 7th annual Forli' Jazz Competition. Basically a self taught musician and a natural talent, his exposure to jazz began very early with performances by his father, a pianist himself; subsequently studied piano in 1981- 82 at the Siena Jazz Clinics, and in New York with James Williams and Larry Willis, two of his main piano influences and mentors. Collaborations with international top musicians like Charles Tolliver, Jimmy Owens, Ray Mantilla, Jimmy Knepper, Steve Turre, Lee Konitz, John Mosca, Tony Scott, Joe Magnarelli, Bobby Durham, Cameron Brown, Ulf Radelius, Kim Parker, Keith Copeland, Virginia Mayhew, Robert Anchipolovsky, Jure Pukl, Magdalena Reising, Steve Thompson, Shay Zelman, Gilad Abro, Uri Bracha, Dima Grodsky, Miles Griffith, Paul Beaudry, Aaron Walker, David Pleasant, Larry Willis, Buddy De Franco, Phil Woods, Deborah Brown, Eliot Zigmund, Helen Merrill and many others. Teacher at the “Manager of Music Communication” 1st level Master 2004 at the “G.D’Annunzio” University in Chieti. Mentor in Jazz Piano at the 2004 edition of “Jazzinty” Workshop in Novo Mesto (Slovenia).
CONCERTS: AUSTRIA “Porgy&Bess Jazz Club”- Vienna “Reigen”- Vienna Auditorium - Linz SnowJazzFestival - BadGastein GERMANY “Birdland" - Hamburg “A-Trane” - Berlin “Unterfahrt JC” - Munich “Rich’s Lounge” - Wiesbaden Theatre -Kessel Jazz Festival - Magdeburg Spielhause - Saarbruecken JazzClub - Marburg “Birdland” Neuburg “Maxburg” - Neustadt Jazz Festival - Greiz Jazz In Der Mitte - Reutlingen Cave61 Jazz Club - Heilbronn Festhalle - Illmenau CROATIA “BP Club” - Zagreb “Stella Artois Festival” - Zagreb Jazz Time Festival - Rijeka “Jazz & Blues Festival” - Split Jazz Festival - Zadar JazzClub - Porec Jazz Club - Bjelovar
SLOVENIA LoKal Patriot - Novo Mesto American Embassy - Ljubljana Jazzinty Workshop - Novo Mesto Grand Hotel Palace - Portoroz
SERBIA International Jazz Festival - Novi Sad
HUNGARY Jazz Club - Gyor BELGIUM “Hnita JC” - Heist Op Den Berg LUXEMBOURG “Melusina JC” - Luxembourg “Inoui JC“ - Arlon SWITZERLAND “Moods JC” - Zurich “Bird’s Eye” - Basel ISRAEL “Museum Of Modern Arts” - Tel Aviv “Jazz, Blues & Videotape Festival" - Tel Aviv Theatre - Jerusalem Theatre - Haifa "Kamelot Jazz Club" - Herzliya Shablul Jazz Club - Tel Aviv Opera House - Tel Aviv Tel Aviv Jazz festival FRANCE “Hot Brass” Jazz Club - Avignon
GREECE "Guru Bar Jazz Club" - Athens
U.S.A. "An Die Musik" - Baltimore "Trumpets" - Montclair NJ many jazz clubs - NY City
SELECTED DISCOGRAPHY
Tony Pancella Trio/Quartet "DICE" (Philology W62) 1990 Tony Pancella & Pierpaolo Pecoriello "TETRACOLORS" (Philology W63.2) 1990 Tony Pancella "BASICJAZZTRIO" (Philology W115.2) 1996 Marcello Sebastiani "SUITE & SONGS" (Splasc(h)) 1996 Tony Pancella BasicJazzTrio “KEEP THIS IN MIND” (YVP 3066) 1998 Mauro De Federicis "MINORISMI" (Philology W 159.2) 1998 Tony Pancella Trio “DIFFERENT STORIES” (YVP 3088) 2000 VV.AA. “I’M IN THE MOOD FOR LOVE” (YVP 3086) 2001 VV.AA. “TOP JAZZ FROM ITALY VOL.2” (YVP) Miles Griffith & Tony Pancella Trio “I FOUND YOU” 2003 Aldo Vigorito & TP Duet “ECHO” – to be released Larry Willis – Tony Pancella Duet “ALTER EGO” 2006 (Mapleshade Rec. USA) Miles Griffith & Tony Pancella Trio “SMILE AGAIN” MG Music 2005 USA Miles Griffith &TP Trio “THE STRUGGLE NEVER DIES!” MG Music 2007 Magdalena Reising Quartet “COMIN’ HOME” 2009 Uri Bracha – Tony Pancella Duet “DIFFERENT LIKE 2 DROPS OF WATER” Rhythm’n Sing SeXtet “DIWINE JAZZ” (2010) Eric Niceberg – TP Piano Duet “LIVE AT PIANO WORLD” (2010)
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