About Me
FABIAN FIORINI has studied at the Brussels and Liège conservatories, where he has obtained prizes for solfege, history, harmony and analysis. He has also won the award for jazz composition by the French speaking public radios in 1993 with the trio VANDERSTRAETEN - CHARLIER - FIORINI. Festival appearances: Festival des Douze 1992 (duo CASSOL - FIORINI) Festival de Jazz de Gouvy 1992 (quintet Guy CABAY) Festival de Jazz de Liège 1993 (duo CABAY-FIORINI) Rally Jazz 1992 Sevilla (Spain) / 1993 Düsseldorf (Germany) Festival Piano Solo at the Travers club, Brussels 1994 (solo) With Marcia MARIA (sideman) 1996 (art & vie tour + festivals) Compositions for theatre: In Belgium: 1991: Le p'tit Arthur (Théâtre-Poème) 1994: Ce désir éperdu de clarte (Théâtre de la place) In France: 1993: creation Théâtre Troglodyte (Angers), co-production Franco-Czheck. For films: 1995: Violette & Framboise, film by Kita BAUCHET (presented as graduation work). 1996: Le temps d'un souffle, A. DEMUYNCK, K. BAUCHET. 1994: FaSol FaDo (duo CABAY-FIORINI) A composition for a tribute concert to North American Indians, performed by the trio DE JAER-GALLAND-FIORINI on Radio 3, 1994. Close collaboration with Baudouin DE JAER, as performer and composer for Lucy Cry of Hypocamp, created by the Orchestre Philharmonique de Liège in the framework of Antwerp 93. As a performer for Les Joueurs de Gong, created by 9 gong players on the occasion of Reg'Arts 94. as performer-improviser for Mountain-Fountain, recorded by the DE JAER-FIORINI for the company Pierre DROULERS, 1995. Sound assistant for Par les Villages, a piece by P. HANDKE, directed and shown by Groupe EVORA at the Théâtre National, 1996. Recently, collaborations with OCTURN (CD), Rhonny VENTAT's Tribute to Cannonball ADDERLEY, with Brasilian singer Marcia MARIA and AKA MOON (several CDs). He has played for the film "A drift on the remains of a grand piano". He also participated to a "Silent Movies II" (ICTUS) concert as a solo improviser. With AKA MOON, CD IN REAL TIME (Carbon 7 052) He has often been associated with the Belgian avant-guard bands, such as AKA MOON and OCTURN, with which he has recorded several albums. Born in Rome 1970, after studies in Italy at Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio (Rome) and Perugia & Liege' Conservatories, JAN RZEWSKI has been playing several years with the Back to Normal Big Band and Koba (Baudouin de Jaer, el b; Janek Kowalski, dr; Jean-Yves Evrard, guit)....Based in Brussels since 1991, he has been playing with Abdo Dagher, Kaat de Windt, Sonic Youth, Michel Hatzigeourgiou, Veronique Delmelle, Mirko Banovic, Steve Lacy, Emmanuel Louis, Maxime Lenssens, Pascal Rousseau, Michel Marissiaux, Alvin Curran, Richard Teitelbaum, Garrett List, Laurent Blondiau, Antoine Prawerman, Tuur Florizoone, Riad abdel Gawad, Arno, Cécile Broché, Gilles Coronado, Maxime Lenssens, Michel Marissiaux, Nicolas Ankoudinoff, Bart Maris, Jean Derome, Isnelle Da Silveira, Hanna Bardos, Mathieu Ha, Yves Mora, Marc Galo, Frederic Rzewski, Angelo Schiavi, Mauro Verrone, Daniele Tittarelli, Luca Rizzo, Quentin Manfroy, Xavier Rogé, Marc Galo, Anne Genen, Kris Defoort, Nic Thys, Yves Peteers, Barbara Wierniek, Didier Fontaine, Esthelle Goldfarb, Joel Parmentier, Anthony Braxton, Arne Van Dongen, Francesco Venerucci, Richard Teitelbaum, Alvin Curran, Arnaldo Vacca... and more recently with his own band Danza Quartet (Luc Evens, el b; Hughes Kolp, el g; Renaud Van Hooland, dr), with pianist Fabian Fiorini (Fiorini/Rzewski Duo) and with Garrett List (Gary & the Riffing Society). As a composer, Jan has written a piece for Ictus as well as one for the Flemish Orchestra. He teaches saxophone and solfège at the Institut Rythmique Jaques Dalcroze, but he also has been working with the Cirque des Sons, AREAM (school of musictherapy) and the Maison de la Création, Brussels.
