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CARLA MARCIANO is an Italian musician and composer from Salerno. She plays alto and sopranino saxophones.
She started studying music first playing the piano and then the alto saxophone and she took her diploma in clarinet at the State School of Music in Salerno.
For some years she played with the "Matera Concert Band", directed by Ettore Fioravanti.
"TRANE’S GROOVE†(with Alessandro La Corte-piano, Aldo Vigorito and Dario Deidda-bass, Donato Cimaglia-drums) is the title of her first cd, released by DDQ (Black Saint/Soul Note - IREC) in 2002.
Thanks to this project she wished to pay homage to the great John Coltrane, with original compositions and some standards and a particular attention to his modal period.
Her second cd "A STRANGE DAY" has been released in 2005 by BLACK SAINT, Bonandrini’s prestigious as well as historical Italian label, so much appreciated in USA. Few Italian musicians record for this label and Carla Marciano is one of them.
With the precious collaboration of Alessandro La Corte on piano, Aldo Vigorito on bass and Gaetano Fasano on drums, the project develops a personal discourse, mainly through original compositions. With a precise sketch at the bottom, the quartet proposes a passionate and instinctive music, sometimes impetuous and vehement and sometimes interrupted by spiritual atmospheres and moments of meditation and reflection.
In October 2006 Carla Marciano introduced this cd in USA, performing with her quartet at three important jazz festivals: the HARTFORD INTERNAIONL JAZZ FESTIVAL, the FIREHOUSE 12 Jazz Festival in New Haven and the ITALIAN WOMEN IN JAZZ FESTIVAL (produced by Italian Cultural Institute of New York) at Symphony Space Theatre, on Broadway in New York.
"CHANGE OF MOOD" is the title of her new cd just released by BLACK SAINT. She plays with the same quartet (La Corte - Vigorito - Fasano) and this is the first cd that contains only her compositions.
Marciano has attracted attention from numerous jazz magazines, among which: JAZZ TIMES, CADENCE MAGAZINE, JAZZ IT, MUSICA JAZZ, JAZZ MAGAZINE, JAZZ REVIEW, ALL ABOUT JAZZ, JAZZ MONTHLY and many others and her cds have received extremely positive reviews. Moreover her cds have been introduced in some national radio and TV programmes ("Sottovoce" RAI 1 - "Music Club" RADIO 1 RAI -"Radio 3 Suite Jazz", "Battiti", "Fonorama" RADIO 3 RAI - "Al Top Musica", "Alta Fedeltà " SAT 2000 - etc.) and international [RTSI/ Radiotelevisione Svizzera - WRTC, WWUH, WPKN, WNUA, KLCC, WICN (USA) - SMOTH FM (UK) - BAYERN 2 RADIO (D) and many others].
The cd “A STRANGE DAY†has been included in the prestigious American CADENCE MAGAZINE’s TOP TEN CDs' list for 2006.
Already included in the Top Ten List of the "Best Italian New Talent" category of the TOP JAZZ 2005, now Carla Marciano is in the fourth position in the same category of TOP JAZZ 2007, the critics' poll organized by the MUSICA JAZZ Italian magazine.
She has performed her music projects, with her quartet, in numerous remarkable jazz festivals, among which:
HARTFORD INTERNATIONAL JAZZ FESTIVAL '06, Hartford (USA) - FIREHOUSE 12 '06, New Haven (USA) - ITALIAN WOMEN IN JAZZ '06, New York (USA) - INTERNATIONAL MUSIC FESTIVAL OF MONTENEGRIN NATIONAL THEATRE '05, Podgorica (MONTENEGRO) - JAZZ IN SARDEGNA/ EUROPEAN JAZZ EXPO' '06 - CLUSONE JAZZ '05 - VICENZA JAZZ '04 - ISEO JAZZ '06 - VILLA CELIMONTANA '06, Roma - LA PALMA JAZZ CLUB/ JAZZITA' '06, Roma - BOLZANO "JAZZ & OTHER" '04 - PINOCCHIO JAZZ LIVE '07, Firenze - PORDENONE JAZZ KOINE' '07 - OVER JAZZ E CONTAMINAZIONI '04, Milano - BEAT ONTO JAZZ FESTIVAL '03 - EDDIE LANG JAZZ FESTIVAL '04 - LA SOSTA/JAZZMIN '06, Villa S.Giovanni - ESPERANTO JAZZ FESTIVAL '04 Roma - DONNE IN JAZZ '04 -'05 (Adkins Chiti Foundation), Frascati e Roma - BLUE BRASS '06 (The Brass Group), Palermo - LUCCA JAZZ DONNA '05 -'08 - TEATRO REGINA MARGERITA ‘07, Caltanissetta - INCONTRI INTERNAZIONALI DELLA MUSICA '07, Salerno – POMIGLIANO JAZZ FESTIVAL '07 - ATELIER MUSICALE '07 (with F.Cerri-E.Intra Doppio Trio), Milano - CASA DEL JAZZ '08, Roma - JAZZ E OLTRE '08 (with F.Cerri) (SA) - PIACENZA JAZZ FEST '08 - ALEXANDERPLATZ '08 - and others...
More informations and dates on: www.carlamarciano.it