Ciro Riccardi

Ciro Riccardi: Professional musician, trumpet player, composer since 2001. He studied Jazz and composition at the “San Pietro a Majella” conservatory, in Napoli.

Session musician and tour musician for a great amount of musicians, bands and orchestras all over Italy, he has occasionally worked as a soloist with international artists such as Adam Rudolph, Paul Gaspar, Famoudou Don Moye and others. In recent years he has participated as a trumpeter in many theatrical performances, directed by Armando Punzo, Pippo Del Bono, Peppino Mazzotta, Antonella Monetti and others, and has composed scores for short movies and dance pieces. He has put on many bands, and he is also composer and soloist for Slivovitz, an eclectic Neapolitan band, for whom he composes and arranges many musical pieces and plays for more than a decade. With Slivovitz he recorded 3 CDs: in 2011, Bani ahead - (Moonjune Records), in 2015 All You Can Eat - (Moonjune Records) and In 2017 - Liver (live in Milan) (Vinyl : SoundFly. Italia / CD : Moonjune Records. U.S.).
He is also the founder, arranger, director and bandleader of the "Uanema Orchestra", a band born in 2012 that proposes original arrangements of the classic jazz/swing period. His first solo album, "Racconti di Vinile” (2017) was released in May for the "Alfa Music" label, with Peppe Servillo and Daniele Sepe as guests.