Giovanni Lo Cascio

GIOVANNI LO CASCIO

composer/drummer/percussionist

I was born in Rome in 1963 and start studying music in 1969 with Maestro Vincenzo Ricciuti.
In 1976, I studied drums privately with Ivano Nardi and then with Roberto Gatto. Solfeggio with Maestro Peverini.
From 1983 to 1985, I attended the Berklee College of Music in Boston (U.S.A) where I studied more in depth harmony and arrangement.
In Boston I had drum teachers like Gary Chaffee, Joe Hunt, John Ramsey, Tommy Campbell and others.
In Rome, later on, I studied Ethnomusicology at University La Sapienza
During my career I have been working in many different contexts (Movies, Theatre and Dance shows, Television and Radio programs). I composed and played soundtracks for Films, Documentaries, and for Television ads.
I played concerts in France, England, Sweden, Switzerland, Greece, Egypt, Brazil, Jordan, United States and in the Vatican for the Pope, and partecipated in many important Festivals (Umbria Jazz, Gaia music festival-Salonika-, Cairo Opera Festival, Enzimi, Sconfini, Santarcangelo dei Teatri, and in numerous events of jazz, rock and ethnic music.
I taught at the Jazz University in Terni, privately and from 1991 to 1998 to the Timba Center of Percussions in Rome.
I wrote didactic texts for various schools and articles for musical magazine.
In 2005 I conceived the Jua kali Drummers Project within the AMREF rehabilitation program “ Children in need” in Nairobi, Kenya. Jua kali Drummers is a Dulcimer Fondation pour la Musique and AMREF permanent project to rescue children from the streets through music education
I teach Music for Cinema at the Rome University of Fine Arts.

Author of the following soundtracks

HOTEL DAJTI - director Carmine Fornari
Music Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio ROSA FUNZECA - director Aurelio Grimaldi
Music Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio GLI ANGELI DI BORSELLINO - director Rocco Cesareo
Music Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio LE PAROLE SONO ALTROVE - Gruppo Cinema A.I.P.A. (C.G. Jung)
Music Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio HIC SUNT LEONES - Istituto Luce
Music G. Lo Cascio, R. Spadoni, A. Avena, P. Sorge LIVING THEATRE “VIAGGIO IN ITALIA 1976” - director Carmine Fornari
Music Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio LUNA E LE ALTRE - director Elisabetta Villaggio
Music Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio DEKRONOS - director Rachel E. Bryceson Griffiths
Music Giovanni Lo Cascio DID IT NOT GO THUS, GERTRUDE? - director Rachel E. Bryceson Griffiths
Music Giovanni Lo Cascio

He collaborated with the following soundtracks of

Pivio & Aldo De Scalzi

I GIARDINI DELL’EDEN - director Alessandro D’Alatri CASOMAI - director Alessandro D’Alatri NELLA TERRA DI NESSUNO - director Gianfranco Giagni SE FOSSI IN TE - director Giulio Manfredonia E’ GIA’ IERI - director Giulio Manfredonia AMORE ESTREMO - director Maria Martinelli EL ALAMEIN - director Enzo Monteleone LAST MINUTE MAROCCO -director Francesco Falaschi MARADONA la MANO de D10S -director Marco Risi DISTRETTO DI POLIZIA (fiction) PER AMORE (fiction) LA VOCE DEL SANGUE (fiction) IL GIUDICE MASTRANGELO (fiction) IL TUNNEL DELLA LIBERTA’ -director Enzo Monteleone 7 KM DA GERUSALEMME -director Claudio Malaponti

Luis Bacalov

ZUPPA DI PESCE - director Fiorella Infascelli

Federico Landini

LISTA CIVICA DI PROVOCAZIONE - director di Pasquale Falcone

Arturo Annecchino

KEAWE - director V. Binasco VARIETA’; - director Arold Pinter (Radio Show) Guest Roberto Benigni - director Simone Carella FAUST - director Peter Stein with Bruno Ganz

Brothers

LASCIALA SANGUINARE (Radio Drama) by Benjamin Galemiri - director Marco Solari

Other collaborations

Theatrical shows

THE MEMORIES OF ADRIAN - director Maurizio Scaparro with Giorgio Albertazzi (five editions) THE BIRTH OF TRAGEDY - director Giorgio Barberio Corsetti AIACE - director Paolo Gazzara with Massimo Venturiello INTRIGO A CORTE - “Teatro Impazza” BREVIARIO DEL MEDITERRANEO - director Maurizio Panici with Omero Antonutti ROBERTO ZUCCO - director Federico Cruciani with Paola Cortellesi TROILUS AND CRESSIDA - director Maurizio Panici with Rolando Ravello LIGHEA with Massimo Venturiello LILIOM - director Maurizio Panici with Massimo Venturiello LISISTRATA - director Maurizio Panici with Pamela Villoresi THE WASP - director Renato Giordano INFERNETTO - with Giorgio Tirabassi COATTO UNICO…SENZA INTERVALLO - with Giorgio Tirabassi (two editions)

Television shows

FANTASTICO 7 - presenter Pippo Baudo CANZONISSIME - presenter Loretta Goggi

Musicians

Alexander Balanescu, Hector Zazou, Le Mystère des voix Bulgares, George Garzone, Abrahan Aferwerki, Louis Bacalov, Daniel Bacalov, Pivio, Aldo De Scalzi, Vittorio De Scalzi Eugenio Bennato, Arturo Annecchino, Ambrogio Sparagna, Federico Landini, Badù N’Dyaie, Karl Potter, Rita Marcotulli, Giovanni Tommaso, Battista Lena, Maurizio Giammarco, Pino Minafra, Francesco Gazzara, Mario Crispi, Gianni Gebbia, Piero Brega, Nando Citarella, Rodolfo Maltese, Ennio Rega and many others.

Groups

Têtes de bois, Novalia, Trancendental, Klezroym, Tamburi del Vesuvio, Mezmerism, Silent Circus, World Percussion, Boom Boom Language, Aksak, Circo diatonico

Dance companies

Montalvo-Hervieu, Renato Greco Ballet, Gino Landi ballet

Selected discography

Silent Circus “Silent Circus” Silent Circus “Ipotetico” Gianni Gebbia Group “ Arabesque ” Abraham Afewerki “ Kozli Gabà ” Abraham Afeweki “ Hadera ” Gerardo Jacoucci “ Modern Big Band ” Sandro Oliva “Aria Malsana” Têtes de Bois “ E anche se non fosse amore” Têtes de Bois “Pezzi di ricambio” Têtes de Bois “Ferrè, l’amore e la rivolta” Novalia “Griot” Novalia “Canti e briganti” Novalia “Arkeo” Novalia “10” Circo Diatonico “Acrobazie” Tracendental “Rinascimento” Arturo Annecchino “il Faust di Peter Stein” Boom Boom Language “Boom Boom Language” World Percussion “World Percussion” Matteo Merli “ A violetta di Caroggi” Luca Fagella & Bus Tickets “Tredici Canti” Stefano Saletti “The Wasps” Stefano Saletti & Piccola Banda Ikona “Stari Most” Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio “Hotel Dajti” Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio “ Gli angeli di Borsellino” Elvira & Giovanni Lo Cascio “ Rosa Funzeca” G. Lo Cascio, Facrika, E. Impagnatiello “Mediterraneo e altri orienti” Circo Diatonico “ La Banda”