Artist · Piano
Francesco Di Cristofaro
Biography
Francesco Di Cristofaro start piano and accordeon studies in his early years with M°Aversano Alfonso.
He obtained a diploma in Piano and Music Performance at ABRSM (Associated board of Royal school of music). During the same period, he obtained a degree in “Tradizioni Musicali Extraeuropee ad Indirizzo Indologico” (Extra-European Traditions and indian Music) at Conservatorio “A.Pedrollo” in Vicenza (Italy), by studying bansuri (Indian Flute) with M° Lorenzo Squillari and attending workshops in India and Italy with Ustad Mujtaba Hussain and Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.
The interest in traditional music led him to deepen various languages and instruments, he studied Iberian bagpipes with Pablo Carpintero and Alberto Jambrina; modal music at the "Labyrint" courses with Ross Daly; Armenian music and duduk with Gevorg Dabagyhan at the “ Fondazione Cini"in Venice.
At the moment he is working as poli-instrumentist in different ‘ensambles’ such as Brigan, La Deriva, Massimo Ferrante, Caterina Pontrandolfo e Os Liburia, with whom he has recorded different works and has played different live shows across Europe, such as Spain, Germany, France, Portugal, England, Switzerland, Denmark, Croatia and Slovenia.
He also collaborated with Moni Ovadia, Nino D’Angelo, Xulio
Lorenzo, E Zezi, Evi Evan, La Mescla, Roberto Giordi, Barbara Buonaiuto, Gustavoce, Alarch.