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Professional musicians at your service
Elegance, understated style and polish: musicians with plenty of experience locally and internationally bring together their qualities to craft the best offer for your event. Here is an overview of the MA Music Events musicians and singers who can provide you with the perfect musical setup for your event.
Maurizio Antognoli
Pianist, composer and singer, experienced piano teacher with different schools, Maurizio has recorded three CDs, releasing his own songs with independent Italian labels, Maia Records (2011-2012) and Riserva Sonora (2016). Maurizio co-founded the progressive rock band, Aelian in 1990, then continued his solo career in the following decade, releasing his debut album, “Light n’ Shade” in 2011 and “The Waking Sleeper” in 2012. He then founded the Waking Sleeper Band in 2013, recording his most recent work with them, “Form & Appearance” – a tribute to the Irish writer Oscar Wilde. He is presently the organizer of MA Music Events, proposing theme music events for corporate functions, conferences and ceremonies for many years now.
Corinne Vigo
Born in 1990, Corinne began her musical training under the artistic guidance of Filippo Travo, who believed in her and concentrated on her professional growth. Between 2006 and 2011 she took part in numerous music competitions, making live appearances in Liguria and Piedmont. In her concerts, she sings songs by some of the best Italian and international female voices, as well as some original songs, with her own personal style and exciting sound. In 2010, she released her first CD, “Lattine ed altre storie”, produced by Gigi Di Renzo, a Neapolitan musician, close collaborator and producer of Pino Daniele. Since then she has participated in several music events in Italy and abroad, performing in Spain and Argentina, in 2012 singing with Marcela Morelo at the Gran Rex, the largest theatre in Buenos Aires and returning to Buenos Aires in 2013 to perform with Argentinean musicians. She teamed up with Maurizio Antognoli a few years ago and they perform as a duo for private functions, weddings, conventions and live music events.
Giancarla D’Adderio
Giancarla started out in 1985 as a singer with the Polyphonic Choir of Santa Cecilia in Galliate, while studying piano and solfege. She also studied with the great choral director, Paul Rosette and went on to join his Inner Spirit Gospel Choir as a soprano and soloist. For over 25 years she has performed in the leading clubs in northern Italy as a soloist and also accompanied by excellent cover bands, with a repertoire embracing rock and funk through to soul and acid jazz.
Andrea Cardinale
Andrea was the first graduate of the N. Paganini music conservatory in Genoa to perform from memory Paganini’s famous 24 Capricci in Concerto and to record them on an album of selections by Ricordi – Feltrinelli. Across his career spanning more than twenty years, he has performed more than a thousand concerts, and has played as a soloist on all continents. Andrea has performed in concerts using Stradivari and Guarneri violins of inestimable value. He plays a fine Vuillaume Violin from 1864.
Stefano Guazzo
Stefano studied jazz with the likes of Claudio Fasoli, Enrico Rava, Charles MacPherson, George Garzone and Gianluigi Trovesi. An eclectic and versatile musician, he has an innate sense of elegance in genres ranging from pop to jazz and has collaborated with jazz musicians of the calibre of Riccardo Zegna, Dado Moroni, Andrea Pozza, Piero Leveratto, Tullio De Piscopo, Felice Reggio, Johannes Faber, Luciano Milanese, Rosario Bonaccorso, Claudio Capurro, Paolo Silvestri, Antonio Faraò, Michela Lombardi, Matteo Brancaleoni, Stefano Bagnoli. He has also been a finalist in various talent competitions including Emersioni (Castiglioncello), Barga Jazz, W il Jazz (Milan) and has taken part in major festivals such as Siena Jazz, Villa Celimontana (Rome), Genoa Jazz, Piacenza Jazz, Livorno Jazz, Jazz It Fest (Terni), Sanremo Jazz, Spring Jazz Festival (Genoa), Sori Jazz.
Alfredo Vandresi
Alfredo is a Genoese drummer, composer and music teacher. He has worked with Nico Di Palo, Ricchi e Poveri, Shel Shapiro, Maria Teresa Ruta (Rai Uno Mattina and Sala Giochi), Corrado Tedeschi, Compagnia Teatrale Goliardica “Mario Baistrocchi”, Alberto Radius – Formula 3. He has also played with many line-ups of various musical genres (rock, pop, blues, singer-songwriter). Currently he plays with the groups Gens, Delirium (I.P.G.) and cover bands. A teacher backed by decades of experience, he engages in this no less important activity in music schools and privately, with adults, adolescents and children. He does not follow a standard teaching method, but rather works to set each of his students on the right path for them.
Alberto Malnati
Alberto studied bass at the “Scuola jazz di Quarto” with Luciano Milanese and Piero Leveratto, and perfected his musical knowledge with the help of great bass players, like Walter Booker, Pierre Bousseguet, Ray Brown and Ron Carter. He has participated in international jazz festivals and tours in Italy, Germany, Austria, Switzerland, France, Belgium, Holland, Spain, Canada and the United States, playing with a considerable number of prominent musicians, including Shawnn Monteiro, Jeri Brown, Kitty Margolis, Jamie Davis, Rev. Lee Brown, Clive Alive, Linda Wesley, Joe Diorio, Mike Stern and more. From 1999 to 2011, he collaborated with the Asti-based songwriter Giorgio Conte, and with the pianist and composer Nando De Luca. He founded the “Hard beat” quartet. In 2014 he founded and led the “Buddy Bolden Legacy band”. He teaches double bass and ensemble music and has organized jazz seminars in Genoa since 1994. He perfected his academic training at the conservatories of Genoa and Alessandria. He has recorded 12 albums, as sideman and as band leader and has participated in radio and television shows in Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Germany and Canada.
Massimo Currò
Born in Genoa in 1973, Massimo first approached funk music and rock in the early ‘90s when he performed live with the most famous local bands. In the 2000s, he delved into jazz and continued his career deepening his knowledge of that genre. He has recorded about ten albums to date, from jazz to pop.
Gianluca Salcuni
Gianluca studied with the famous Ligurian saxophonist Claudio Capurro and attended international Masterclasses with some of the “sacred monsters” of jazz (Benny Golson, David Liebman, Lew Tabackin, Barry Harris, George Cables, Maurizio Giammarco, Rosario Giuliani), who helped shape his musical identity, and, in 2016, he graduated in jazz at the Nicolò Paganini conservatory, Genoa. His experience in musical genres ranges from jazz to popular folk music, to classical fusion. In 2017, he was one of the twenty winners of the national call for proposals for the AIR project, with destination London. He has played, among others, with Pietro Leveratto, Mauro Negri, Alessio Menconi, Andrea Pozza, Max Rolff and Andrea Maddalone.
Micaela Gregorini
At the age of 5, Micaela wanted to participate in the Zecchino d’Oro: at the selections, nerves got the better of her and this interlude opened and closed just as quickly. At the age of 18, her uncontrollable desire to sing reared its head again and she decided to enrol in The Vanguard School, the music school founded in the early ‘80s by the master pianist Gianfelice Siano and guitarist Armando Corsi. For 25 years she continued to study the use of the voice, specializing in modern singing, and training as a solo singer in the melodic pop genre. She refined her ear when she decided to join some vocalist groups – in a formation of 6 to 20 elements, discovering jazz, soul and funk. From 1984 to now she has taken part in an endless number of competitions such as Sanremo Giovani, concerts in theatres and plazas, accompanied by Genoese musicians such as Maurizio Antognoli, Pippo Lamberti and Bob Callero, known far beyond the Ligurian scene. Countless performances, entertainment in clubs, hotels, major events, private parties, weddings throughout Italy (also in the role of host of key events and shows) ranging in a vast repertoire from the ‘60s to the present day, Italian and international. The words “I sing, therefore I am” best represent her, and she had them tattooed as a reminder.
Serenella Di Pietro Paolo
Born in Rome, she then moved to Genoa, starting to improve her vocal technique with singing lessons and then began her musical experience as a soloist in a piano bar, performing for many years in Genoese clubs and throughout the Ligurian Riviera, gaining excellent acclaim everywhere. Among his most relevant experiences, the participation, representing the Liguria Region, at the Olma Fair in St. Gallen, Switzerland, as well as frequent appearances at the “Living Room” in Monte Carlo, being appreciated for his singing skills and his mastery of the scene. She perfected her singing studies in Milan with Michele Fischietti, the only one in Italy qualified to teach the “SLS” Speach Level Singing method and vocal coach in the X Factor program, with remarkable results. Always at a didactic level she took part in the course of interpretation, singing and acting c/o “L’Ottava” in Rome held by Mary Setrakian (New York). In these years her appearances in events, manifestations and festivals all over Italy have been numerous, as well as artistic collaborations with several musicians, both as singer and chorister.
