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He began studying piano at 6 years old and made his professional debut at 15. After graduating from conservatory in Florence in 1993 — and a brief experience as a shift worker in the world of pop with Raf and Jovanotti among others — he established himself in jazz, playing on stages such as the Town Hall in New York, La Scala in Milan and Umbria Jazz. The collaboration, which began in 1996 and never interrupted, is fundamental, with Enrico Rava, alongside whom he gives hundreds of concerts and records 13 records. The most recent: Tati (2005), _ The Third Man _ (2007) and _New York Days _ (2008). Throughout his career he collaborated with musicians such as Pat Metheny, Gato Barbieri, Richard Galliano, Sol Gabetta, Phil Woods, Lee Konitz, Bill Frisell, Chico Buarque, Caetano Veloso and Chick Corea, with whom he made the live album Orvieto (2011). In 1998, at the helm of the group L'Orchestra del Titanic, he paid homage to Italian music of the '30s and '40s with Turn down your radio, disco-show in which Peppe Servillo, Irene Grandi, Marco Parente, Barbara Casini, Roberto Gatto collaborate. Particularly outside the canons, there are also works such as The Gnosis of the Fanfole, together with singer-songwriter Massimo Altomare on texts by Fosco Maraini (1998), Cantata dei Pastori Immobiliari, Musical oratory for four voices, based on texts by David Riondino (2004) and the disc of Scandinavian songs Gleda (2005). As an artistic producer and arranger, he also worked on Bodo Rondelli's album _Desperati Intellectuali Ubriaconi _ (2002), winning the Ciampi prize. Between 2002 and 2006 he recorded four albums for the French label Label Bleu: Les Fleures Bleues, Smat Smat, Concertone and The Visionaries. 2006 is also the year of Piano Solo (album of the year for 'Jazz Music'). In 2007 it comes out Carioca Bollanica, an album made together with great Brazilian artists: in December he was the second musician, after Antonio Carlos Jobim, to play a grand piano in a favela in Rio de Janeiro. Also in 2007, he won the European Jazz Prize and was included by the American magazine “Allaboutjazz” in the list of the five best musicians of the year together with Dave Brubeck, Ornette Coleman, Charles Mingus and Sonny Rollins. Among the most recent productions: Big Band (2013); Joy In Spite of Everything (2014); _Sheik Yer Zappa _ (2014), live dedicated to Frank Zappa; The Aliens Are Coming (2015), where he tries his hand at it for the first time as a singer-songwriter; Napoli Trip (2016), with Daniele Sepe, Manu Katché and Jan Bang among others. He also lends his piano to Italian pop-rock artists including Irene Grandi, with whom he signed the album Irene Grandi and Stefano Bollani (2012). In the classical field he performs as a soloist with symphony orchestras (Gewandhaus in Leipzig, Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, Orchestre de Paris, Philharmonica della Scala in Milan, Santa Cecilia in Rome, Toronto Symphony Orchestra) alongside conductors such as Zubin Mehta, Kristjan Järvi, Daniel Harding, Antonio Pappano and especially Riccardo Chailly, with whom he recorded Rhapsody in Blue and Concerto in F by Gershwin on a CD (2010) that won the Platinum Record with more than 70,000 copies sold. This was followed by Maurice Ravel's Concerto in Sol (2012) and in 2013 a live DVD recorded at La Scala in Milan with the Concerto in F. His desire for experimentation borders on the publishing world. In 2006, for Baldini Castoldi Dalai, he published the novel The Brontolo Syndrome, followed by Let's Talk About Music (2013) and The Kid, the Guru, the Alchemist and Other Stories of Musicians (2015), both published by Mondadori. As a character, under the name of Paperefano Bolletta, he appears in the weekly Mickey Mouse, of which he is also appointed Ambassador. For the radio he is the creator and host, with David Riondino and Mirko Guerrini, of the show Doctor Djembè (Radio Rai 3, 2006-2012), from which the book Lo Zibaldone by Dottor Djembè was born (2008) and the TV special Good evening Doctor Djembè (Rai 3, 2010). Since 2009, the theme songs of Radio Rai 3 have been his. At the theater he collaborates, among others, with Claudio Bisio, Maurizio Crozza, Giuseppe Battiston, Marco Baliani, the Osiris Band, and writes the music for three shows by Lella Costa (Alice, a country wonder, Hamlet and Ragazze) and for theAntigone by Cristina Pezzoli. Honorary member of the Italian College of Pataphysics, he is co-author and actor in the show The Dada Queen, created together with Valentina Cenni in 2016. On television he is a regular guest of Renzo Arbore in the program The less we are the better we are (Rai 1, 2005) and creator, author and host of the two editions of Bollani supports (Rai 3, 2011 and 2013), with which he brings jazz music to the small screen. His most recent project is The important thing is to have a plan (Rai 1, 2016): seven late-night appointments on Rai1 with guests, improvisations and live music.

Virtuoso, brilliant, unique-these are just a few of the adjectives used to describe Hamilton de Holanda, the Brazilian musician who can ignite audiences around the world and boasts a career studded with awards. Over the past 14 years, Hamilton de Holanda has reinvented the musical performances of the mandolin, from him customized with ten strings. He has composed 24 caprices for this instrument, departing the emblematic Brazilian mandolin from its traditional use and elevating it to a global dimension. In the United States, the press called him "the Jimi Hendrix of the mandolin." At the age of 38, already with 33 years of music under his belt, Hamilton has developed an entirely personal and highly distinctive musical technique. The phrasing, extra strings and powerful sound of his mandolin, combined with the virtuosity of his from solo passages and improvisations, inspire an entire generation of young people through a decidedly innovative sound. His music is a synthesis of genres - jazz, samba, rock´n´roll, pop music, lundu or choro - and needs no labels to exist. to Hamilton is not so much interested in innovation as in the beauty and spontaneity of the music. In front to of him a new world opens up, full of possibilities. He is guided by the idea that "modernity is tradition": that is, neither past nor future, but interrelation between the two. In 2001, Hamilton de Holanda received two Best Instrumentalist Awards in the 'academic music' and 'popular music' categories at the "Icatu Hartford of Arts." Thanks to this, he experienced a year to Paris where his music and career took off. to January 2005, at Midem (the world's largest music fair), he gave the inaugural concert of the Year of Brazil in France, and his CD "1 byte 10 strings"-the first album played from a to 10-string mandolin-received the important musical award "Choc" from by the European magazine 'Le Monde de la Musique'. The French press affectionately christened him "The Prince of the Mandolin" while in Brazil the Revista 'Bravo' called him "The King." Composers such as Ivan Lins, Hermeto Pascoal, Maria Bethânia, Djavan and João Bosco consider him "one of the best musicians in the world." In addition to the opening performance of the Year of Brazil in France, he participated in the opening ceremony of the Pan American Games, the Japanese centennial of immigration to Brazil, and played in various ceremonies honoring presidents and high officials. He received Latin Grammy nominations for Brasilianos (best instrumental album), Brasilianos 2 (best jazz album), Flower of life (best instrumental album). His quintet was awarded the TIM Award, Prêmio from Música Brasileira and JAZZ + magazine as best musical group, while he was honored as best musician. Hamilton de Holanda has appeared in several prestigious Brazilian and international events and festivals. He has performed in the studio and live with such musicians as Egberto Gismonti, Hermeto Pascoal, Milton Nascimento, Chucho Valdes, Wynton Marsalis, Chic Corea, Buena Vista Social Club, Béla Fleck and the Flecktones, John Paul Jones (Led Zeppelin), Djavan, Cesaria Evora, Melody Gardot, Richard Galliano, Stefano Bollani, Seu Jorge, Ivan Lins, Paquito d'Rivera and others. His discography boasts an impressive 26 albums. His fascinating music characterized from an absolute "Brazilian-ness" is expressed in emotionally rich performances. A deeply versatile artist, he is to comfortable in all kinds of performances: as a soloist, together with orchestras, in duets, in power trios and in quintets.