Dr. B.B. duo

musicians play music . we play with music . you only need a beautiful voice two amazing guitar players and some beautiful friends and musicians that join the band to color the sound.
B.B. Duo was created to play with the musical passions of the two parts of the group - jazz, rock, blues, pop and electronic - and to play as freely as possible as only a duo can. Music becomes a game, a way to be tied together and to show the deeply emotional side of the music itself . The length of the pauses can be changed, the tempo can speed up or slow down but the duo will always be together.
The repertoire, made of evergreens, jazz standards and contemporary rock songs from artists such as Portishead and Ani Di Franco, is linked by Chiara's alluring voice and charisma and Eugenio's personal style of playing the guitar .
Ghost member of the bb duo is Andrea Quaglino, an impressive and fantastic guitar player from the Torino area; owner of a thousand or more guitar effects, he helps the band to get a more contemporary sound.
For fun, B.B. Duo recorded its first collection of classics in December 2006.
BB duo likes to play with other musicians, and has played, among the others, with Andrea Quaglino (impossible guitar parts & noises!)Arthur Miles, Federico Marchesano, Paolo Narbona, Ken Scharf, Max Finotti, Lara Brachet Cota, Giangi Cerutti, Ivan Nirta.
CHIARA ONIDA vocals
Chiara was born in 1984. Her musical training began when she studied for four years the classical piano (1998-2002) under the guidance of Antonella Pedico at the Istituto Musicale F.A. Cuneo of Ciriè in the province of Torino. She has always been interested in singing and technical vocals and perfected her stylistic form studying modern and lyrical singing with the mezzo soprano Sabrina Pecchenino at the cultural association Notabene of Torino. From May 2005 Chiara has lent her voice to the recording studio Bliss Corporation of Torino (artists include Gabri Ponte, Eiffel 65 and Roberto Molinaro). In that role she is contributing as a singer songwriter on the new pop-electronic of the DJ Aqualuce. Since October 2005 she has collaborated with Eugenio Mirti and together they gave life to Ropa 11, a project which strives to summarize the diverse musical experience of the two bandleaders. In the spare time from the band they play as BB duo , and wrote and recorded the soundtrack to a short movie, “olio su tela”, in may 2006. Chiara is a member of Società Italiana Autori ed Editori (SIAE), the Italian society of authors and editors, as an author and composer..
EUGENIO MIRTI guitar
Eugenio was born in Torino in 1972 and developed his musical talents studying jazz guitar with Luigi Tessarollo and rock guitar with Jose Perfetto. Earning his certificate in music theory at the Conservatorio G. Verdi in Torino, Italy; Eugenio perfected his skills following many seminars including those hosted by B. Buethe, J. Batten, S. Morse, S. Gibellini, M. Petracca and B. Kessel. He also attended courses offered by Boston’s Berklee College of Music at the Umbria Jazz satellite school in Perugia, Italy in 1994. Eugenio is currently studying classical guitar with Luca Marocco.
In 1995 he started the rock band Matka which recorded two albums, Lavorare Stanca in 1998 and Zen Number 3 in 2000. This group performed in over 100 concerts all over Italy and has received flattering reviews by many music magazines (“Music which seems to stand up to the firm conviction of a project. . . . it’s wonderful to be able to listen, once in a while, to a group which doesn’t try to reproduce other people’s sounds” “Anyway, Eugenio Mirti is a fantastic composer” “…they don’t care about all of the committed rock styles and they head straight for their own road” “The Torinese group interprets a dynamic and immediate language “. In 2001 Matka split and the Eugenio Mirti Trio was formed. It was a band which offered its compositions and music in a standard Italian and international contemporary style. The group attended all the majors jazz festival of northern italy. Eugenio Mirti Trio’s first album, Piccolo Uragano (Little Hurricane), came out in October 2005.
In 2005 Eugenio met Chiara Onida and together they planned a new band, ropa 11, whose first album “infrangibile”, came out on may 2006. Ropa11 did a short tour in Las Vegas (Nevada) on december 2006.
Eugenio is one of the most well known music teachers in the torino area; currently he teaches in Torino, Rivoli and Ivrea; in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007 he was asked to assist Francis Coletta at the avigliana jazz festival guitar masterclass.