MIRKO GUERRINI Saxophone, ethnic flutes, keyboards, composer, arranger

MIRKO GUERRINI was born in Florence in 1973. Has studied piano, saxophone, classical composition and jazz music at the Conservatorium “Luigi Cherubini” in Florence. He graduated in classical saxophone in 1992 and in Jazz in 2010 with 110/110 cum laude. Recipient of the Flack Fellowship at the Banff Centre for Performing Arts in Canada, he is now Permanent Resident in Australia with a Distinguished Talent Visa that he was granted for his exceptional curriculum and his International recognition as a Jazz musician, performer and composer. Eclectic and multi-instrumentalist, producer, multi-awarded composer and orchestra conductor, he has 14 Cds to his credit as a solo sax player and leader of jazz ensembles, more than 50 CDs as a sideman. He is the leader of the “Triodegradable” and the co-leader of the Grabowsky-Guerrini-Schauble Trio (Torrio!). Guerrini has released 6 books: 2 with a selection of his compositions by the well known label Carisch Ed, and 3 educational books dedicated to the Jazz Tenor Saxophone: Stan Getz, Joe Henderson and Oliver Nelson. Plus an essay in English based on the paper presented at the Warwick University's Conference "Music and Philosophy". He was part of the “blockbuster” project “Carioca” with Stefano Bollani and all Brazilian musicians (cd and dvd released with more than 100.000 copies sold), and has toured 3 times in Italy with more than 50 concerts. In two of them the great Caetano Veloso has joined the band. Guerrini hosted the radio show “Dottor Djembè” together with David Riondino and Stefano Bollani. The radio program ran for six seasons, becoming a tv show in June 2010 for Rai3. For Dottor Djembè he composed and arranged all the music. The show was awarded as the “best Radio show” in 2009 and 2010. He has very high quality and varied collaborations: with Billy Cobham, Brian Auger, Mark Feldman, Dave Douglas, Stefano Bollani, Enrico Rava, Stefano Battaglia, Paul McCandless, Caetano Veloso, Hermeto Pascoal a.o., as far as jazz is concerned, with notable singers-songwriters such as Laura Pausini, Ivano Fossati and Giorgio Gaber and with a number of other outstanding artists in Italy and abroad. He is also in great demand as a composer/conductor with different Symphony Orchestras (Orchestra “A.Toscanini” of Parma, Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra della Campania and others), being the winner of International Music Competitions such as the “Concorso 2 Agosto di Bologna” (2000, 2005). He has performed all over the world: in Brasil, Japan, Australia, Canada, Usa, France, Spain, Russia, Finland, Indonesia and in many other countries. In Australia he has already worked with some outstanding musicians such as Paul Grabowsky, Tony Gould, Danny Fischer, Marc Hannaford, Scott Tinkler, Australian Art Orchestra, Normie Rowe a.o.; Guerrini has also recorded 8 CDs since his arrival in Melbourne.

He has composed original music for the recent Melbourne Museum's exhibition on the Aztecs, scoring music for an animation movie (titled “Aztec City”) and both the Radio and Tv ads. As an educator, Guerrini has taught at the “Giuseppe Verdi” music school of Prato for 7 years, and after being a professor of Jazz Saxophone at the Conservatorio “Mascagni” in Livorno he is now Adjunct Fellow and Teaching Associate at Monash University, Melbourne. At Monash University he teaches Saxophone, and has taught Composition, Ear Training, Small Ensemble and Jazz Theory. Has been invited as visiting professor at Monash University of Melbourne (2005, 2009, 2011 and 2012) and at UTAS in Hobart in Australia as well as at the Banff Centre for Performing Arts in Canada (2010, 2012), and has been the Keynote speaker at a Conference on “Musical Perspectives” at the Warwick University, in Warwick, UK in 2012. Guerrini has been teaching Woodwinds and Intermediate band at Kew High School since January 2016 and Woodwinds at Brighton Grammar School since Term 4 2016. DISCOGRAPHY :

AS A LEADER:

Radiosuccessi “Mister Amore” (Self published)

Triodegradable “Italian Rhapsody” (Self published)

Mirko Guerrini “Divagazioni su 319 corde” – Libro+cd (Carisch ed.)

Mirko Guerrini “Il Bianco e l’Augusto” – (Emarcy – Universal)

Mirko Guerrini “Italian Lessons” (Giotto Music-Umbria Jazz Records)

Mirko Guerrini “Cirko Guerrini” – (Giotto Music)

Mirko Guerrini “Mirko Guerrini e i diavoli del ritmo” – (Philology)

Mirko Guerrini “Tornando a Casa” – (MDT30126)

Millennium Bugs’ Orchestra “Oliver Nelson-Composer & arranger” – (Il popolo del blues)

Millennium Bugs’ Orchestra “Tribute to Frank Sinatra”

AS A CO-LEADER

Guerrini – Angeli – Burke – Murray – Magnusson - Tamborrino “Sardininan Liturgya” (Jazzhead)

Guerrini – Magnusson “Acquacheta” (with Frank DiSario and Niko Schauble)

Bollani–Riondino–Guerrini “Lo Zibaldone del Dottor Djembè" Book + CD (Baldini Castoldi Dalai)

Marco Parente+MBO “L’attuale jungla” – (Mescal-Sony – mes 513438 2)

Marco Parente+MBO “Anni di Musica” – (Regione Toscana- Materiali Sonori)

AS A SIDEMAN

Monash Art Ensemble “Histories” (Jazzhead)

Dave Douglas “Fabliaux” (Jazzhead)

Stefano Bollani “On Air” – (Il Manifesto)

Stefano Bollani “Omaggio alle Occasioni Perdute” (L’Espresso)

Stefano Bollani “Carioca” (L’Espresso+ Emarcy-Universal)

Stefano Bollani “I Visionari” – (Label Bleu)

Stefano Bollani “Gente in cerca di nuvole-live” (Suoni delle dolomiti)

Stefano Bollani “Abbassa la tua radio” – (Wolf 001)

Stefano Bollani “Concertone” – (Label Bleu LBLC 6666)

Enrico Rava “Monash Sessions” – (Jazz Ahead)

Hermeto Pascoal "Monash Sessions" - (Jazz Ahead)

Petra Magoni – F. Spinetti “Musica nuda 2” – (Fandango Records)

Ivano Fossati “Musica Moderna” – (EMI)

Ivano Fossati “L’Arcangelo” – Sony – BMG

Ivano Fossati “Tour Acustico – Dal vivo Vol. 3” – (Sony)

Giorgio Gaber “Io non mi sento italiano” – (CGD)

Giorgio Gaber “La mia generazione ha perso” – (CGD)

Giorgio Gaber “Gaber 1999/2000” – (GIOM Cd-04)

I Gatti Mèzzi "Vestiti Leggeri" - (Picicca Dischi)

Giorgio Ferrera “Grand Tour” – (Atina Jazz)

Riccardo Morpurgo “Lemniscata” (Caligola records)

Jacopo Martini Quartet “Il viaggio di Renata” – (Sam records)

European Jazz Orchestra “Swinging Europe 1” – (DaCapo 9449)

European Jazz Orchestra “Swinging Europe 2” – (Da Capo 9450)

S.Battaglia – Theatrum “Originaria” – (Symphonia SYO 02712)

S.Battaglia – Theatrum “Gesti” – (Splasc(h) CDH 901-2)

S.Battaglia – Theatrum “Mut(e)azioni” – (Splasc(h) CDH 902 – 2)

S.Battaglia – Theatrum “Rito Stagionale” – (Splasc(h) CDH 903-2)

Leonardo Pieri sextet "Telesio sessions"

Altomare-Bollani “La gnosi delle fanfole” – (C.P.I. 300498-2)

Riccardo Tesi "Presente Remoto" (Il Manifesto)

Riccardo Tesi+Banditaliana “Lune”(Il Manifesto)

Bobo Rondelli-Stefano Bollani “Disperati Intellettuali Ubriaconi” – (Venus)

Laura Pausini “Tra te e il mare” – (CGD)

Marco Parente “TrasParente” – (Mescal-Sony)

Artisti Vari “Come fiori in mare – Luigi Tenco riletto” – (Lilium)

Nuti – Galardini “Io amo Andrea” – colonna sonora – (Emy-Sony)

Gabriele Mastroianni “Badly and Softly” – (CDGM-001)

Lavori in Corso “Summertime in Jazz” – (Splasc(h) CDH 441-2)

Quodlibet “Esperanto” – (SS3)

Timet “Zarathustra – I parte” – (3cd – Arti Elettroniche)

Timet “Quadri di schermo vivo” – (Arti Elettroniche)

Timet “Colazione con la pietra” – (Arti Elettroniche)

Timet “Carne Capitata” – (I dischi Forma 07)

Alessio Riccio “(In)Naturals Rhythms” – (Unhx 001)

Alessio Riccio “Drawing – Opus2: Paul Klee” – (Unhx 005)

M.Guerrini;M.Cosottini; “Le terribili onde della libertà” (La compagnia delle indie)

EAOrchestra “Likeidos” (AMRN 028)

Petralana "Oggi cadono le foglie" Suburban Sky records

ITUNES

ITUNES U COLLECTIONS

The Banff Centre inspiring creativity "Music and Sound - Concerts" (n.50)

ITUNES U EPISODES

Mirko Guerrini "16th April, 1889"

DVD:

BOLLANI STEFANO, (2009), Carioca Live, DVD, ed. Ermitage, Bologna, EAN: 8032979616526

BOLLANI STEFANO, (2009), Portrait in Blue, DVD, ed. Harvey Film 4, EAN: 8012786000114

FADDA MARCO (2009), Cajòn Power, ed. DG De Gregorio, Barcellona (Spagna), DGDVD02, EAN: 023230016034

GABER GIORGIO (2009), Giorgio Gaber – Gli anni Novanta, Editori vari: Radiofandango-Fondazione Giorgio Gaber-Nunflower, Roma, EAN: 4029759023982

BOOKS:

GUERRINI MIRKO (2013), "Sound Portraits" and other conversations, ed. Sladoievich – The professional competence, Montespertoli (FI), Essay, Educational book, ISBN 9788890239292

GUERRINI MIRKO (2011), Divagazioni su 319 corde, ML3378, ISBN: 9788850723331, Ed. Carisch.

Book containing all the complete scores of the music composed, arranged and conducted by Mirko Guerrini for jazz piano and Chamber Orchestra. Attached to the book there is a cd containing the audio recording of the music and all the separated parts in pdf format.

GUERRINI MIRKO (2010), Icnologia del Jazz. Sulle orme dei giganti del sassofono. Workbook #2: Joe Henderson – The Phantom, ed. Sladoievich – The professional competence, Montespertoli (FI), Essay, Educational book, ISBN 9788890239298

GUERRINI MIRKO (2010), Icnologia del Jazz. Sulle orme dei giganti del sassofono. Workbook #1: Stan Getz plays, ed. Sladoievich – The professional competence, Montespertoli (FI), Essay, Educational book, ISBN 9788890239229

GUERRINI MIRKO (2010), Jazz songbook,ed. Carisch, Milano, a selection of 30 jazz original tunes, ML3047, EAN: 9788850716661

BOLLANI STEFANO, RIONDINO DAVID, GUERRINI MIRKO (2008), Lo zibaldone del Dr. Djembè,BCDe Baldini Castoldi Dalai, Milano, BOOK+CD, EAN: 9788860733184

GUERRINI MIRKO (2002), Peace #3 per sax tenore solista e orchestra sinfonica, Alessio Riccio AVM ed. musicali, Sesto F.no (FI), complete score.

GUERRINI MIRKO (2002), Damnatio memoriae, per coro e orchestra sinfonica, Alessio Riccio AVM ed. musicali,.