Instrumentalists

Giancarlo Locatelli - Biography

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Instrument: Clarinet

He first studied music with his father, an accordion player. He later studied piano and, in 1985, graduated at the "Dall'Abaco" Conservatory in Verona, where he studied clarinet. He has taken part to many workshops about jazz, arranging and orchestral practice with Gianluigi Trovesi, Steve Lacy, Mal Waldron, Giancarlo Gazzani and Bruno Tommaso. He has worked with many musicians, such as Steve Lacy, Wolfgang Fuchs, Fernando Grillo, Thomas Lehn, Erhard Hirt, Peter Kowald, Barre Phillips, Carlo Actis Dato, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Enrico Fazio, Alberto Mandarini, Jimmy Owens, Nicolas Simion, Fabrizio Spera, Luca Venitucci, Biggi Vinkeloe, Peter Friis Nielsen, Peeter Uskyla, Steve Piccolo, Eliott Sharp, Zeena Parkins and Gak Sato. He has performed at the festivals in Ragusa (1993), Clusone (1994 and 1999), Jazz in'it (1994, Vignola), Il giardino della musica (1995, Milano), Leonkart (1996, Milano), Festivaletteratura (1997, Mantova), Musica e linguaggi (1997, Mestre), Il sacro attraverso l'ordinario (1997, Torino), Progetto poesia totale (1997, Locarno), Noci (1997), "Controindicazioni" (Roma 1997), Fringes (1998, Brugherio), Incontri poesia (1998, Locarno), "Contemporaneamente" (1999, Lodi), Cicli (1999, Montevarchi), Controindicazioni (Roma 1999). He often works with poets and performance artists like Franco Beltrametti, Antonello Cassinotti, Gruppo Tealtro (with this group he has toured in Poland, France and Sweden), Biagio Cepollaro, Rita Degli Esposti, John Gian, Stefan Hyner, Tom Raworth and Dario Villa. He founded the group "Takla Makan" with Massimo Falascone and Filippo Monico, conducting, from 1993 to 1996, systematic researches on free improvisation. In the following years, this experience led to these projects: the Takla Wind Quartet (1996), composed by Fabio Martini, M. Falascone, G. Locatelli and Alessandro Bosetti (who, since 1999, has been replaced by the Dutch clarinet and saxophone player Ab Baars), the Takla Jazz Quartet, originally known as Bap ti zum (1996 Falascone, Locatelli, Monico and Tito Mangialajo), the association "Takla Improvising Group" (1997) and the independent label "Takla Records" (1998). Since 1996 he has also worked in duo with the pianist Alberto Braida. The duo played in the Total Music Festival 2001.