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Jazz and Poetry: A Tribute to the Beat Generation

The collaboration between singer Elisabetta Antonini, winner of the prestigious Top Jazz critics Award as Best New Talent, and Alessandro Gwis, piano player and composer, well known as member of Aires Tango by Javier Girotto, dates back to the artist’s debut album UN MINUTO DOPO (A Minute Later), a successful and original work between jazz and chamber music which included, as well as Gabriele Coen on clarinet, the historian oboist of Oregon Paul McCandless and the great trumpet player Kenny Wheeler as special guests. Biography of Elisabetta Antonini A sophisticated singer, as well as a talented composer and arranger, Antonini is highly active on the jazz scene, participating in shows and festivals throughout Europe, Asia and South America, and performing a varied repertoire which ranges from the American Songbook to original works and contemporary jazz. She has collaborated with many internationally acclaimed musicians, including Kenny Wheeler, Paul McCandless, Paolo Fresu, Javier Girotto, Francesco Bearzatti, Jim Rotondi, Dado Moroni, Roberto Gatto and Enrico Pieranunzi. Her musical creativity and passion for literature influenced Elisabetta in her endeavour to find a unique and unusual project dedicated to The Beat Generation, featuring Francesco Bearzatti. The resulting album, entitled The Beat Goes On, received praise in the press, and subsequent live performances in Europe, Japan and India were enthusiastically received by audiences. Antonini's interest in novel approaches to vocal expression, combined with the musical explorations of harpist Marcella Carboni, gave birth to Nuance, where both employ live electronics and effects in a diverse repertoire of originals, jazz standards and classics from the Brazilian songbook. After Un Minuto Dopo, she released (R)EVOLUTION, a project conceived with singer and songwriter Alessandro Contini where original music based on minimalism, electronics, sophisticated sound architectures, wide spaces of improvised music is presented and where in addition with their two voices, the sidereal trumpet of Nils Petter Molvaer, the most important reference for the nu jazz, ambient, electronic and house scene of the last thirty years, the unpredictable landscapes of Michele Rabbia and the sound layers of Alessandro Gwis stand out. As well as her more contemporary and original projects, Antonini has continued to cultivate her passion for mainstream jazz, founding the drumless hard bop project “In a New York Minute”, featuring famed saxophonist Maurizio Giammarco, and “Women Next Door”, a classic jazz quartet and album of the same name, inspired by the musical style of George Shearing. She has performed in important international jazz festivals such as: Umbria Jazz, Festival Internacional de Jazz de Madrid, Tel Aviv Jazz On The Boulevard Festival, Rio Harp Festival in Rio de Janeiro, Mumbai Jazz Festival, Enjoy Festival at Swetzingen, Torino Jazz Festival, Roccella Jonica, Casa del Jazz, Teatro Sistina, Auditorium Parco della Musica, Villa Celimontana Festival, Festival Internazionale di La Spezia, Tuscia In Jazz, Roma Summer Jazz Festival and countless others. Antonini is also a sought-after Jazz Educator of singing and vocal improvisation, teaching at a number of Italian and European Conservatories (Trento, Brescia, Benevento, Rome, London, Helsinki, Pamplona, Aalbog, Gent), as well as at various jazz workshops around Italy (Nuoro Jazz, Tuscia in Jazz Spring, Tuscia in Jazz Summer, La Spezia Jazz Clinics, Jazz ‘s Cool at SLMC in Rome) alongside outstanding musicians such as Paolo Fresu, Sheila Jordan, Maria Pia De Vito, Kevin Hays, Donny McCaslin, Peter Bernstein, Aaron Goldberg, Kenny Werner, Kurt Rosenwinkel. She is chair professor of Jazz Singing at the Francesco Morlacchi Conservatory in Perugia.