3 PIANO GENERATIONS

Maestro Luis Bacalov is an Argentine pianist, composer, conductor and arranger, naturalized Italian. He has achieved international fame through his work as a composer for the cinema, and in his long artistic career he has received numerous awards, collaborating with directors such as Damiani, Scola, Petri, Pasolini, Fellini and many others. Memorable was his 1996 Oscar award for best soundtrack with Michael Radford's Il postino, an unforgettable film for Massimo Troisi's masterful performance. For_ Francesco Rosi's La tregua_ he earned a nomination for the Davide di Donatello and a nomination from to.M.P.to.S. for Pier Paolo Pasolini's Il Vangelo secondo Matteo. He formed a quartet with bandoneón, double bass, percussion and piano, with which he recorded the CD_ Tango and Around proposing compositions that seek meeting points between different musical cultures, arriving at a strongly syncretic result (ethnic, urban, contemporary music). He directed the world premiere of his opera Estaba la Madre at the National Theater in Rome in 2003. More recently Quentin Tarantino chose some of the Maestro's pieces for Django Unchained (2012), and in July 2014 Luis Bacalov presented on the Ravello Festival stage the new show Con el repiro del Tango_ with actor Michele Placido.

A student of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory and the Licinio Refice Conservatory, Rita Marcotulli made her professional debut in the 1970s and later began to collaborating with a variety of international artists such as Richard Galliano, Enrico Rava, Pat Metheny, Chet Baker, Palle Danielsson, Helène La Barrière, Joe Lovano, Dewey Redman, Kenny Wheeler, and many others. An elegant pianist with a melodic grain and a very exclusive instrumental voice, she came to Brazilian music and then to jazz. In 1987 she was voted Best New Talent by Musica Jazz magazine and the following year moved to Sweden, where she remained until 1992. Back in Italy, she collaborated with Roberto Gatto and Pino Daniele, among others, and in 1996 accompanied Pat Metheny in a performance at the Sanremo Festival.

The collaboration for the film_ Basilicata Coast to Coast_ by Rocco Papaleo, earned her the Ciak d'Oro Award in 2010 for Best Soundtrack and the Film Press Award, the Nastro d'Argento in the same category and the David di Donatello in 2011 (the first woman ever to to receive this recognition). In 2011 she received the Top Jazz Award as the best Italian jazz artist from Musica Jazz magazine, and published Variazioni sul Tema, with Luciano Biondini and Javier Girotto. In 2013 he is a member of the jury at the 63rd edition of the Sanremo Festival. The intimacy of her music, its depth, her delicate arrangements, which know how to emphasize the single note and amplify its emotional charge, allow her to range and seek interconnections with other artistic forms, literary, visual and, of course, cinematographic.

Pianist and composer Alberto Pizzo, a 2004 graduate of the S. Pietro to Majella Conservatory in Naples, has extensive experience working in Italy as a solo pianist and as a performer and author of music for numerous RAI programs. Pizzo has graced the stages of major Italian festivals, from the Ravello Festival to the Bellini in Naples, where he improvises together to Chick Corea, the Meeting delle Etichette Indipendenti in Faenza, Eataly Smeraldo in Milan and many others. International appearances should not be forgotten, such as the one at the Highline Ballroom in New York as the only Italian artist for the Blue Note Jazz Festival, and the concert at the Tokyo Stock Exchange in Japan in 2009, where he performed both from solo and accompanying soprano Yuki Sunami.

to November 2012, he met at the Cabarete Jazz Festival guitarist and producer Fabrizio Sotti, with whom he co-produced On The Way. Musicians such as Mino Cinelu, Renzo Arbore, Toquinho, and David Knopfler, with whom he makes an unreleased track recorded to London in October 2013, participate in the recording project, recorded in the spring of 2013 live at Bunker Studios in New York: the title of the song is This ship has sailed, lyrics and vocals by Knopfler, music by Pizzo, accompanied from Martin Ditcham (drummer for the Rolling Stones, Sade, Elton John), Pete Shaw (bassist also for U2) and Harry Bogdanovs (guitarist for Elthon John, Westernhagen, John Farnham).

The great success of from this record work led him to embark on an extensive tour of Japan and the U.S.