Salvatore Spano

Salvatore Spano
Salvatore Spano is a pianist, organist and composer. He studied at the Conservatories of Cagliari, Amsterdam, Lugano and Turin, graduating in organ, electronic music, and jazz music, while also obtaining a Master’s Degree in Conducting of Contemporary Music Ensembles.

Among his teachers are found names such as those of Dado Moroni, Jacques Van Oortmerssen, Francesco Giomi, Giorgio Bernasconi, Marco Panascia, Enco Zirilli and Barry Harris. For more than 30 years he has been active as a performer and composer in the fields of classical music, jazz, and drama theatre, while continuing, in parallel, his research, attempting to unify the principal musical traditions of the Twentieth Century in a universal and contemporary language. In the field of jazz he performed with many artists from the national and international panorama, such as Andy Gravish, Tolga Bilgin, Freddie Hendrix, Max Ionata, Ector Costita, Emanuele Cisi, Daniele Tittarelli, Barend Middelhof, Denia Ridley, Elio, Ronnie Jones, Mario Biondi, Joy Garrison, Luciano Milanese, Marco Fratini, Stefano Senni, Marco Loddo, Lorenzo Tucci, Adam Pache, Bruno Tommaso, Roberto Spadoni, Mario Raja and others. Since 1995 he works with the Orchestra and Choir of the Teatro Lirico of Cagliari; since 1996, with the Sardinia Jazz Orchestra; since 2015, with the Ente Musicale di Nuoro, teaching piano, theory, composition and ensemble performances at the International Seminaries of Nuoro Jazz. He has recorded eight albums as a soloist, and many others as a guest artist or an ensemble member.