Giovanni Falzone

Last update: before 2019
Trumpeter and composer, he begins to study the trumpet at the music school of the marching band in his hometown, Aragona, Sicily, at the age of 17. Soon after, he enrolls at the Conservatory V Bellini of Palermo where he graduates in only four years under M° G. Ciavarello. He also graduates with honor in Jazz at the Conservatory G.Verdi of Milan. From 1996 to 2004 he plays on a permanent basis with the Symphony Orchestra of Milan. As first trumpet, he has the opportunity to play with internationally renowed conductors and soloists such as Giuseppe Sinopoli, Claudio Abbado, Carlo Maria Giulini, Riccardo Chailly, Yutaka Sado, Luciano Berio, Vladimir Jurowski, Valery Giergev. Since 2004 he has taken up Jazz music and composition for good. Among his many awards: Best Talent Umbria Jazz Clinics 2000, Top Jazz 2004 for Jazz Music (best new talent), Academie du Jazz 2009 (where he ranked 2nd in the category “European Musician”), Top Jazz 2011 for “Brass” category while his album “Around Ornette” (premiered in Lampi Music Season in 2011) was named best record of the year. As band-leader he has performed in major European venues: Umbria Jazz Winter, Villette Jazz Festival in Paris, Clusone Jazz, AH-UM Jazz Festival, Bergen Natt Jazz, Copenhagen Jazz Festival, Aarhus International Jazz Festival, Sardinia Jazz Festival, Vicenza Jazz Festival, Bolzano Jazz, Edimburgh Jazz Festival, Odessa Jazz Festival, Bourdeaux Jazz Festival, Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, Skopje, Grenoble Jazz Festival, Nantes Jazz Festival. He teaches brass jazz at the Conservatory G.Verdi of Milan and at New York University Florence. Falzone works with Musicamorfosi since 2005. As composer, arranger and band-leader he has released the following albums : Music For Five (Splasc(H) records, 2002) Big Fracture (Soul Note, 2003) Earthquake Suite (Soul Note, 2004) Suite for Bird (Soul Note, 2005), Meeting in Paris (Soul Note, 2006) R-Evolution Suite (Soul Note , 2007), Stylus Q (Abeat, 2008) Aroun Jimi (Cam Jazz, 2010), Songs (Abeat Records, 2011), Around Ornette (Parco della Musica Records, 2011 – Top Jazz 20011 as best album). Some of his performances are also recorded in Musicamorfosi’s albums : Bye Bye Mozart (Auditorium, InSound , 2006) with Mario Brunello playing the cello, Lampi 2007/2008 (Lampi di Musicamorfosi, 2008) ft. his Electric Flies Quartet, Out of Africa (Lampi di Musicamorfosi 2010) ft. Arsene Duevi and Suoni Monili (Lampi di Musicamorfosi 2012).