Marco Cortesi

Educational background: Marco Cortesi was born in 1962 in Locarno, Switzerland. He starts to approach music seriously toward the age of 20, after graduation in high school. Marco attends several Italian summer camps with Joe di Jorio, Jim Hall, Mick Goodrick and other well-known artists. From 1985 to 1991 he enrolls at the Swiss Jazz School Bern, where he has the opportunity to study and play with Frank Sikora, Rachel Gould, Woody Shaw, Sal Nistico and others.
Festival appearances, collaborations: After graduation at SJS (in ’91), he starts a musical and artistical relationship with american and european musicians, like Gene Calderazzo, Franco Ambrosetti, Walt Szymansky, Jon Davis, Pietro Tonolo, Mark Abrams, Dario Deidda, Jeff Gardner, Rick Margitza, Javier Girotto, Giorgio di Tullio, Alberto Bonacasa and many others.

With these projects (with different line-ups: from trio to quintet) he performs at numerous Swiss and Italian festivals and in clubs in both countries, such as Blues To Bop Festival, Estival Jazz Lugano, Swiss Diagonales, Brissago Jazz Evenings, Jazztage Dübendorf, Jazz Festival Willisau, Montreux Jazz Festival, Festival für Alte Music, Zürich, etc.
www.marcocortesi.com
Enslive
Published CD's:
1997: Triblu, Altrisuoni
2000: Why not, Altrisuoni
2006: Falzer, Membranerecords
2008: ENS Live at Monte Verità, VIBRA Records
2009: ENS Live "Stan-Darts", TCB Music
Marco Cortesi is a composer and producer of jingles, radio tunes, soundtracks, electronic compositions for professional use in the media business and is a professional speaker. He’s official endorser of Schertler sound equipment and Eastman Guitars.