Antonio Bertoni

ABOUT ANTONIO BERTONI: Born during the hot 1977 in Piacenza, Italy. He started on the electric bass in his teens playing a lot of rock, funk and jazz-rock. Then he approached the double bass and a lot of way of using this instrument studying clalssical music at the Piacenza’s Conservatory with Leonardo Colonna, jazz music with Attilio Zanchi and by himself, jazz piano with Umberto Petrin and also workshops around improvisation and instrumental technique with Barre Phillips, Gino Robair, Thomas Lehn, Roberto Dani,Amy Denio and others. He also studies tabla and Hindustani music with Pritam Singh of the Birmingham based Ravi College, a great master of this ancient tradition, sharing this big interest about rhythm and perception between different cultures’ worlds : the various African traditions, also studying with Dramane Konatè a djembefolà from Burkina Faso and with the south-african Joe Legwabe, the Gamelan music, the Gnawa music of Marocco and a lot of old and new forms of music. He is currently working on different projects and different ways of playing always looking for the new based on the very old and for non conventional brain maps. He performed two works at the Biennale di Venezia with Umberto Petrin and alone with the poet Aldo Roda , projects about the great artist Joseph Beuys . He is also the assistant of U. Petrin at the “workshop on imagination” where together with Stefano Benni they work around the connections between spoken words and music. ANTONIO BERTONI: Comincia suonando molto rock, funk e jazz-rock con il basso elettrico. In seguito studia contrabbasso e molti modi di approcciare questo strumento studiando musica classica al conservatorio di Piacenza con L. Colonna, jazz con Attilio Zanchi e come autodidatta, piano jazz con U. Petrin e partecipando a vari seminari di improvvisazione con Barre Phillips, Gino Robair,Thomas Lehn, Roberto Dani, Amy Denio e altri. Studia inoltre tabla e musica indiana con Pritam Singh frequentando il Ravi College di Birmingham e questo interesse per il ritmo e altre culture lo porta a studiare musica africana con Dramane Konaté e Joe Legwabe e anche Gamelan e musica Gnawa e varie forme di musica vecchie e nuove. Attualmente impegnato in vari progetti si è esibito due volte alla Biennale di Venezia con U. Petrin e in solo. www.myspaceeditor.it