Artist
Alessandro Marzi
Biography
Alessandro Marzi is an Italian drummer and percussionist. Born into a musical family, he studied piano, bass, drums and percussion before graduating in percussion at Rome’s Santa Cecilia Conservatory. His jazz training included studies with Fabrizio Sferra and Roberto Gatto and workshops with Gary Chaffee and Peter Erskine.
His musical approach combines jazz drumming with an interest in Latin rhythms and percussion timbres. His work includes performances with Nicola Stilo and Toninho Horta, participation in the World Youth Orchestra and concert activity in Europe and Japan. He received the critics’ prize at the Jazz Hoeilaart International Contest in Belgium in 2003 and 2005.
He teaches drums and jazz percussion at the Gaetano Braga Conservatory in Teramo and directs the Malibran Jazz festival. On Piero Delle Monache’s Road Movie, he plays drums on tracks 2, 4, 5, 7, 8 and 9.