LIVIO MINAFRA
Genres: Avant-Garde Jazz, Third Stream, World Fusion, Post Bop • Italy

A graduate in Classical Piano, Orchestration for Banda and Jazz at the Piccinni Conservatory of Bari, Italy. Winner of the important Italian “Top Jazz” prize in 2005, 2008 and 2011, Livio primarily performs solo and with his quartet, and has also engaged in many prestigious collaborations as pianist, composer, arranger and accordionist with such groups as the MinAfric Orchestra, Municipale Balcanica, Canto General, Radiodervish…. Other important collaborations have included Louis Moholo, Keith and Julie Tippetts, Marko Markovic, Paolo Fresu, Bobby McFerrin, Jerry Gonzalez, Frank London, Mario Schiano, Sergej Kuryokhin, Paul Rutherford, Lucilla Galeazzi, Michele Lomuto, Daniele Sepe, Fakhraddin Gafarov, Darko Rundek, Aldo Caputo and Michel Godard. At just 33 years of age, he has toured and performed on all continents and has recorded for Raitrade, Ed. Il Manifesto, Stradivarius, Incipit, and Sud Music (Italy), Enja Records (Germany), Leo Records and Ogun Records (UK). To date he has released piano solo albums ‘La Dolcezza read more...