CORRADO GUARINO
Genres: 21st Century Modern, Progressive Big Band, Pop, Art Song, Folk • Italy

Principally self-taught, he graduated at Verona Conservatory in Band Instrumentation. He attended "Siena jazz" summer seminars, playing the piano with Franco D'Andrea and studying arrangement and composition with G.Gazzani and B.Tommaso. His compositions for wind ensemble and jazz orchestra won prizes at different international contests. Between 1990 and 2000 he collaborated as composer-arranger with the "Ensemble mobile", a jazz orchestra in Bergamo. For this orchestra he wrote several arrangements and original compositions. He has collaborated for years with the saxophonist Tino Tracanna, on projects bordering jazz and music of the European cultured tradition, above all "Gesualdo", based on Gesualdo da Venosa's madrigals. He has collaborated with Gianluigi Trovesi on the realization of many projects for orchestra, among others "Dedalo", which won the "German Critics Award" as Best Jazz Album Of The Year in 2002. In collaboration with the piano player Franco D'Andrea he also produced a "Concerto for piano and jazz orchestra". In 2006 he was read more...