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DF ARTISTS WELCOMES CLARINETIST ALEXANDER BEDENKO TO ITS ROSTER

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DF Artists welcomes in its roster the wonderful clarinetist Alexander Bedenko.

The multi-award-winning Ukrainian-born American clarinetist Alexander Bedenko has given recitals at Carnegie’s Weill Recital Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and Steinway Hall in New York, the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and UNESCO in Paris.

Since graduating from the prestigious Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, he has collaborated with artists such as Gautier Capuçon, Christoph Eschenbach, Kirill Gerstein, Daniel Hope, Nobuko Imai, Christiane Karg, Nikolai Lugansky, Dmitry Sitkovetsky, and Vladimir Spivakov, as well as with the Borodin, Jerusalem, Alma, Ariel, Endellion and Orion string quartets.

He has also made solo appearances with the Kremlin Chamber Orchestra, Romanian, Uzbekistan and Ukraine National Symphony Orchestras, Texarkana Symphony Orchestra, and Moscow Virtuosi, and taken part in chamber music concerts at the Colmar, Verbier, Spoleto, Malta, Mozaic and Schubertiade festivals. 

In 2019, Alexander Bedenko released an acclaimed debut album on Orchid classics with Kyril Zlotnikov and Itamar Golan. This was followed in March 2022 by Finding Home (Sony Classical). His arrangements for clarinet and piano of five works by Tchaikovsky were published worldwide by Muzyka Edition in 2021.

A former Verbier Festival Chamber Orchestra principal clarinetist, he has been guest principal clarinetist on a Chicago Symphony Orchestra tour, by invitation of Riccardo Muti, and has also performed as guest principal with the London Symphony Orchestra, Philharmonia Orchestra (London), The Philadelphia Orchestra, and the Cleveland Orchestra, this last under the baton of Franz Welser-Möst.

Alexander Bedenko is a Selmer Paris and D’Addario Woodwinds artist.

www.alexanderbedenko.com

UN BALLO CON LA LUNA FOR MIRABASSI/ZANCHINI DUO

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EGEA’s second album with the duo Mirabassi – Zanchini, a work that is in line with the previous Il gatto e la volpe , but which broadens the range of sounds, atmospheres and colours that this surprising and close-knit duo is able to construct.

Both are virtuosos of their instrument. Gabriele Mirabassi of the clarinet. Simone Zanchini of the accordion. Both boast a long and prestigious curriculum. having measured themselves with the language of Jazz, of course, but also the language of classical, contemporary, Italian popular music and other traditions.

In Un ballo con la luna you can clearly hear all of this. It ranges from songs where you can breathe in atmospheres of clear Italian popular origin, like Re bello, to songs of South American inspiration, like Besame mucho, Carioca, to songs where improvisation takes over the starting melodic theme. The common thread is dance music. A music that sometimes faithfully proposes rhythms and movements typical of the dance hall music of Fellini memories, while other times transfigures them into something else, imagined, dreamed, moody. The real glue of the dance music review proposed by Gabriele and Simone is the originality of their language, the way of treating the themes, the melodies, the harmonic structures, and the development of them. A way where great creativity, individual inventiveness is always at the service of the final result. Another fascinating work created by a truly great duo.

Listen and buy it!

GABRIELE MIRABASSI AND SIMONE ZANCHINI IN POTENZA FOR ASSOCIAZIONE XCOSMOPOLIS.

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“The cat and the fox” Project will arrive in Pignola (Potenza) for festa della Musica 2023 by Xcosmopolis at Dimora Giorni on June 21st at 7,30pm.

The cat and the fox is a musical encounter between these two great virtuosos and their instruments as protagonists of the international music scene. The musical intersection that distinguishes both allows them to express themselves easily from time to time in the world of jazz and classical music. With this duo, the spirit of the rhythms of South America and the pulsating depth of the old swing, mingle with the sounds of today’s modern jazz, which is expressed in the compositional style of both. The eclecticism of the two musicians allowed them to wander and improvise in an extemporaneous manner with a very high communicative interplay, alternating original compositions with famous standards of the Latin-American repertoire.

They will perform a wonderful program including their own compositions and impro:

S. Zanchini – Choro romagnolo
C. Haden – Our Spanish love song
G. Mirabassi – Chisciotte
S. Zanchini – Caffè Finale
Sivuca – Um tom pra Jobim

A NEW CD FOR GABRIELE MIRABASSI & SIMONE ZANCHINI

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A new cd to be released on March 19th 2021 for the italian duo Gabriele Mirabassi (clarinet) & Simone Zanchini (accordeon): IL GATTO E LA VOLPE (The cat & the fox) for the italian based label EGEA records. A cd full of a thousand musical ideas and colors. Eight pieces, most of which written by the performers themselves, where the engaging dialogue between the two instruments, alternating popular atmospheres with other cultured ones, reaches peaks of pure lyricism.

Gabriele and Simone are a real duo: absolute masters of their instrument, with strong individual imprints and inexhaustible personal creativity, but at the same time with a great understanding and a perfect sense of general balance.

Tracklist
1. Choro Romagnolo (Simone Zanchini) 5:37
2. Our Spanish love song (Charlie Haden) 7:56
3. Chisciotte (Gabriele Mirabassi) 4:39
4. Impro N.5 (G. Mirabassi-S. Zanchini) 1:24
5. Felliniano (Simone Zanchini) 5:53
6. Pinocchio (Gabriele Mirabassi) 6:51
7. Sospesi a primavera (Gabriele Mirabassi) 5:45
8. Um Tom para Jobim (Sivuca) 5:37

Gabriele Mirabassi & Simone Zanchini duo: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7nsNHHSLsU

EGEA: https://www.egearecords.it/attivita/suoni-e-segni-in-romagna/gabriele-mirabassi-simone-zanchini/

https://www.egearecords.it/product/il-gatto-e-la-volpe/

More infos: https://www.df-artists.com/artists/gabriele-mirabassi-simone-zanchini-duo