{"id":34,"date":"2018-08-23T11:55:57","date_gmt":"2018-08-23T11:55:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2025-04-22T13:18:46","modified_gmt":"2025-04-22T13:18:46","slug":"bio","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/bio","title":{"rendered":"Biography"},"content":{"rendered":"

> STUDI<\/strong><\/p>\n

After exploring the jazz piano styles and techniques at the Giovent\u00f9 Musicale d'Italia with pianist Marcello Tonolo and with Luigi Bonafede ('83 \u2013 '86), Danilo attended the Siena jazz intensive seminars for four consecutive years studying with Franco D'Andrea, Amedeo Tommasi, Enrico Rava and other teachers ('87 \u2013 '90). He also participated, first as a student and then as assistant, in courses held by the Manhattan School of Music (which granted him a scholarship in '97) and by Barry Harris, Gary Burton, Lee Konitz, in Italy and in New York.<\/p>\n

> ATTIVITA’ CONCERTISTICA \/ DISCOGRAFICA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Besides directing his own trio, since 1998 and for over 10 years Danilo has been the pianist in the quartet of the great New York saxophonist Steve Grossman. He also worked continually with Carlo Atti, Roberto Rossi, Marco Tamburini, Robert Bonisolo, Pietro Tonolo, Fabrizio Bosso, Sandro Gibellini, Piero Odorici, Fabio Morgera and many other musicians on the Italian and international jazz scene. Since the end of the 90s he started to release albums under his own name (\"JAZZ\" and \"FELIEC\") and as a sideman. Throughout the years, he has been on numerous tours with American artists like John Mosca, Dave Schnitter, Vincent Herring, Lew Tabackin, Jesse Davis, Tom Kirkpatrick, Bob Sands, Kurt Weiss... He has played at clubs, festivals and residencies in Italy, France, Spain, Austria, Switzerland, Holland, Greece, Belgium, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany, Norway and in New York. In 2007 he formed the international group \"Newropean Quartet\" and released \"AMAPOLA\" for the German record label Birdland Records; in 2010 he published \"TIME ON MY HANDS\" with the extraordinary contribution of Steve Grossman; in 2011 \"EARLY AUTUMN\" with Ruth Young, the famous American singer - life and musical partner of the great Chet Baker in the 70s. The most recent album, followed by concerts in Italy and Europe, came out in 2013 with the title \"ALL MY TOMORROWS\" (sextet with Mosca, Reichert and Weiss). In the last few years he has often been playing with the Newropean Quartet in Italy, Austria, Poland and Germany.<\/p>\n

> ATTIVITA’ DIDATTICA<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dalla met\u00e0 degli anni ’90 insegna pianoforte e musica d’insieme jazz, principalmente presso i seguenti istituti musicali: Scuola Thelonious di Vicenza, Accademia Musicale di Schio (VI), Circolo Unisono Fortepiano di Feltre (BL), Associazione Musicale F. Manzato (TV). Tiene seminari sull’improvvisazione jazzistica in Italia, Grecia, Spagna e Germania. Ha lavorato come assistente di pianoforte jazz e traduttore per le newyorkesi Manhattan School e New School (’98, ’99 e 2004) e prestato la propria opera come docente di pianoforte jazz presso il Conservatorio \u201cE. Dall’Abaco\u201d (Verona) nel triennio 2007\/2009. Nel 2011 ha tradotto in italiano il manuale didattico \u201cMETAPHORS FOR THE MUSICIAN\u201d di Randy Halberstadt, pubblicato dall’editore musicale Volont\u00e8 di Milano. Dal 2021 ha iniziato la docenza di Pianoforte Jazz, lavorando presso i Conservatori di Adria, Rovigo, Udine e Brescia.<\/p>\n

> DISCOGRAFIA PUBBLICATA<\/strong>
\n-1999 Danilo Memoli Trio: \u201cJAZZ\u201d w\/ John Mosca & Steve Grossman (AG Recs 2001)
\n-2004 Danilo Memoli Trio: \u201cFELIEC\u201d (AZ Music 2005)
\n-2007 Gianni Cazzola\/Giuseppe Zorzella Quartet: \u201cCHET TIME\u201d (AZ Music 2008)
\n-2008 Memoli\/Reichert NEWROPEAN 4tet: \u201cAMAPOLA\u201d (Birdland Recs 2009, Germany)
\n-2010 Memoli \/ Reichert \/ Grossman: \u201cTIME ON MY HANDS\u201d (CatSound Records)
\n-2010 Fabrizio Gaudino, special guest Danilo Memoli: \u201cSAIL AWAY\u201d (CatSound Records)
\n-2011 Memoli \/ Reichert \/ Young: \u201cEARLY AUTUMN\u201d (CatSound Records)
\n-2012 Memoli Sextet \/ Mosca \/ Weiss: \u201cALL MY TOMORROWS\u201d (CatSound Records)
\n-2024 Massimo Chiarella Quartet: LIVE AT ENOSTERIA LA TORRE” (EnoRecords)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

> STUDI Dopo aver approfondito il pianoforte jazz presso la Giovent\u00f9 Musicale d’Italia sotto la guida di Marcello Tonolo e Luigi Bonafede (’83 – ’86), frequenta i seminari intensivi Siena Jazz per quattro anni consecutivi studiando con Franco D’Andrea, Amedeo Tommasi, Enrico Rava e altri docenti (’87 \u2013 ’90). Partecipa inoltre, prima come studente e poi come assistente, a corsi tenuti dalla Manhattan School of Music (che gli assegna una borsa di studio nel ’97) e da Barry Harris, Gary Burton, Lee Konitz sia in Italia che a New York. > ATTIVITA’ CONCERTISTICA \/ DISCOGRAFICA Oltre a dirigere il proprio trio, Memoli fa parte dal \u201998 e per oltre un… Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danilomemoli.it\/american\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}