Simone Zanchini - Vasko Atanasovksi / Balk one DUO
MUSIC STYLE: Avantgarde
TOUR DATE: on demand
LINE UP: Simone Zanchini - accodion/live electronics, Vasko Atanasovski - alto & soprano sax, flutes
FROM: Italia/Slovenia
BIOGRAPHY
SIMONE ZANCHINI
Considered one of the most interesting and innovative accordion players on the international scene, his quest takes him to the limit of contemporary, acoustic and electronic sound experiment, and more other contaminations mixed together, super-refined influences issuing in a an absolutely personal approach for improvisation. He received an honours diploma in the classical accordion from the Conservatory “G.Rossini” of Pesaro.
He is an eclectic artist, whose concert activity involves groups of from various fields of music (improvisation, contemporary music, jazz, classical music).
He has performed at the most important international festivals: Clusone Jazz, Umbria Jazz, Tivoli Jazz, Berchidda Jazz, Sant’Anna Arresi, Barga Jazz, Mara Jazz, Vignola Jazz, Ravenna Festival, Rossini opera Festival , Teggiano Jazz etc. and in a lot of important international festivals in France, Austria, Germany, England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonian, Spain, England, Tunisia, Lebanese, India, Russian and Japan.
He can boast collaborations with many musicians of international fame: Thomas Clausen, Gianluigi Trovesi, Javier Girotto, Paolo Fresu, Marco Tamburini, Massimo Manzi, Bruno Tommaso, Ettore Fioravanti, Mario Marzi, Michele Rabbia, Giovanni Maier,Tamara Obrovac, Krunoslav Levacic, Vasko Atanasovski, Antonello Salis, Han Bennink, Art Van Damme, Jasper Soffers, Adam Nussbaum.
Since 1999 Simone is the first accordion player in the “Ensemble Strumentale Scaligero” of La Scala Theatre in Milano, with this group he plays tours everywhere in the world.
Recently he published two new CDs called: Fuga per Art and Better Alone. In Fuga per Art , Simone revisits, in personal style, two of the most important living accordion players: Art Van Damme and Frank Marocco, respecting always that characteristic sound created using accordion and vibraphone together, following a kind of jazz-language usually not much played with this instrument above all in Europe.
Currently He has two new projects which include his passion for contemporary music: Simone Zanchini Quartet: Entropia (D. Caliri, G.Maier, M. Rabbia, S.Zanchini) and Elettrotico Trio (A.Alessi, C. Calcagnile, S.Zanchini).
VASKO ATANASOVSKY
One of Slovene most creative composers and musicians.
He published more original albums that are without exception, placed on a domestic jazz pedestal.: “Akupunktura” (V.A.2001), “Heat Flower” (Extraplatte Wien 2002), “Suite de passion” (Goga 2003), “Tanatos Eros” (Goga 2005), “Altdorf Live” (V.A. 2006), "Attic dance" (JBR2007) and “Mljask - Live from The old power station”. He has got a lot of positive critics for his work home and abroad.
He has performed on important festivals and happenings as: Town Hall (New York-Usa), European week of culture in India (New Delhi, Bombay-Ind), Alpentoene (Che), Xong festival (Aut, Ita, Che), Cankarjev dom, Druga godba, Porgy&Bess (Aut), JAzz&Wine of Peace (Ita), Henry le Boeuf Hall - Balkantraffik (Bel), Rasa (Nld), Euro Jazz Festival 2004 (Athens-Grc), RingRing (Srb), Mediawave (Hun), NoJazz Fest (Hrv), Crossroads (Ita), MIDEM (Cannes-Fra)...
He has collaborated with musicians as: Marc Ribot (Usa), Michel Godard (Fra), Simone Zanchini (Ita), Greg Cohen (Usa), Tamara Obrovac (Hrv), Zoltan Lantos (Hun), Bratko Bibic, Krunoslav Levacic (Hrv), Ewald Oberleitner (Aut), Karmina Silec & Carmina Slovenica, Zlatko Kaucic, Dragan Dautovski…
Since 1997 he is mostly dedicated to his own projects; so he is a founder or co-founder of many musical groups and projects and also composer for chamber, orchestral and choir ensembles, dance, puppet and theatre performances.
He has collaborated with choreographers and directors: Vito Taufer, Brane Potocan, Jernej Lorenci, Mojca Horvat, Jasna Knez, Matevz Gregoric, Miha Golob, Peter Bostjancic.
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