Silvia Alunni

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Member Since: 03/10/2007
Band Website: www.rumblequintet.com
Band Members: RUMBLE QUINTET :
Silvia Alunni, piano
Nicola Andrioli, piano
Roberto Gatto, drums
Antonio Caggiano, percussions
Gianluca Ruggeri, percussions

Rumble Quintet is the fruit of an original and ardent symbiosis that has merged historically distant musical worlds. This project has brought together five musicians from diverse backgrounds, each of whom has achieved significant individual importance, known and recognized in the classical, contemporary and jazz fields, both in Italy and internationally. The keen appreciation aroused since Rumble Quintet’s debut – in the very acclaimed performances at the Festival Pontino of Latina, at the Rossini Theatre of Pesaro, at Verona Jazz, at the Istituzione Universitaria Concerti di Roma, to mention a few - lays in a successful and charming artistic project shared by all members, that finds its strength in its timbre and expressive research. In February 2006 they published Lenny 4 Five, the first of the band’s record issues that, in its first composition, had as protagonists Silvia Alunni and Stefano Bollani on two pianos, Antonio Caggiano and Gianluca Ruggeri on percussion, Roberto Gatto on drums. Nicola Andreani, the new member of Rumble Quintet, has the demanding task to take the place of Bollani. Andrioli is among the youngest protagonists of the present jazz music scene: he comes from Puglia and now Paris is the desired but very exacting/demanding place of his profession. Alunni and Andrioli share a similar trainining: successfully graduated from two of the best Italian conservatories, they have also attended post graduate courses in the most prestigious musical European institutions; Silvia Alunni in Austria, in order to improve her classical repertoire, and Nicola Andrioli in France so as to study the world of jazz music. Caggiano and Ruggeri come from the Ars Ludi group, an ensemble of percussions devoted to contemporary music by, among the others, Ambrosini, Bartok, Berio, Cage, Glass, Reich, Scelsi, Varese, Wolff. Gatto, whose artistic curriculum can boast an infinite number of collaborations, projects and awards. He is nowadays universally considered one of the best European drummers. Thanks to its variable formation, Rumble Quintet follows an itinerary that ranges from the musical to jazz, from repertoire to improvisation. Their musical journey faces brilliant rereadings of a few passages from Leonard’s Bernstein’s work. The American composer’s themes from songs and musicals supply the melodic and rhythmic material from which Rumble Quintet draw inspiration, faithfully reproducing or freely improvising, so as to create fantastic sound developments. The proposed programme retraces the tracks of the record Lenny 4 Five, still fresh off the press. The concert opens with the musical Candide, of which the Overture, It Must Be Me and The Paris Waltz are performed. These last two pieces are elaborated by Paolo Silvestri. The Masque, taken from The Age of Anxiety, is a real jazz interlude for piano and percussions. In this piece, taken from the most relevant work of Bernstein’s first compositive season, we can already see the author’s most important features: the use of jazz and the dramatic sense. Some Other Time, the re-reading of which has been made by Nicola Andrioli and Roberto Gatto, is one of the song in which Bernstein shows his deepest musicality. Lonely Town is inspired by a different atmosphere, Bernstein’s melodic vein is supported by a decisive and intense rhythm. The very famous Symphonic Dances from West Side Story are scheduled for the second part : the “origin” of Rumble Quintet is contained in the nine sections which make up the Symphonic Dances; after Prologue, Somewhere, Scherzo, Mambo, Cha-Cha, Meeting Scene, Cool, and just before the Finale, there is Rumble – the piece which gives the name to the group. The interpretation of Rumble Quintet is rich and involving: the original synphonic and orchestral dimension of the Symphonic Dances is not deceiving, even if there are only five musicians in the performance; there are such and so many undertones and dynamic details highlighted by the pianos, percussions and drums, that the number of the musicians employed seems far more substantial. The jazz soul of the group gives expression to all its brilliance: Bernstein’s pages are richly interposed by impromptu ‘open’ interventions. The result is an eleborate musical architecture which rises from the ground foundations of Bernstein’s original themes. Leandro Piccioni, who is the author of the original synphonic transcription of the Rumble Quintet Group, receives the merit for the balanced arrangement of Tonight.

DUO PIANO-VIOLIN:
Silvia Alunni, piano
Stefano Pagliani, violin
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Record Label: "Velut Luna" e "Arcadia"
Type of Label: Indie