ANDREA MOLINARI

Andrea Molinari is an Italian guitarist, composer and arranger. He was born in Jesi, in the Marche region, in 1986, and took to music when he was a child. After moving to Rome, he graduated with honours at the local University of Music and the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. He completed his studies at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels. On the occasion of two stays in New York, he had the opportunity to meet and speak with some of the most influential exponents on the US jazz scene: Peter Bernstein, Charles Altura, Mike Moreno, Lage Lund, Jonathan Kreisberg and Seamus Blake. In 2010, he won the “Jimmy Woode" best guitarist award, for which the panel of judges was made up of Kurt Rosenwinkel, Rick Margitza, Antonio Sanchez, Eddie Gomez, Dado Moroni and Gegè Telesforo. 2018 saw Molinari win a national competition for an Italo-French residency promoted by the French Institute of Italy, the French read more...