Roberto Laneri: Winds of Change

Alessandro del Signore is a double bassist, electric bassist and composer. He graduated in double bass from the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Frosinone. From an early age he combined a passion for classical music with the study of jazz and improvised music.

Active in both concert performance and recording, he works on projects ranging from contemporary jazz and classical music to world music, performing at national and international festivals.

Giuppi Paone received her musical training in Italy during a period of intense cultural activity. Exploring a variety of vocal techniques and forms of expression, she sought a personal synthesis of her interests: jazz improvisation, the technical discipline of classical singing, Indian raga, the vocal traditions of rural Italy, other traditional vocal practices, contemporary music, the relationship between voice and gesture, and vocal teaching.

By the time of Winds of Change in 2017, she had collaborated with Roberto Laneri for more than twenty-five years, lending her voice to his multifaceted music. Her teaching work has included jazz singing at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples.

Roberto Laneri is a composer, wind player — clarinets, saxophones and didgeridoo — and overtone singer. He studied philosophy in Rome and music in the United States, receiving a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. His teachers included Lejaren Hiller, Charles Mingus, William O. Smith, John Silber and Keith Humble.

After many years of work in contemporary music, his music has developed beyond established categories and conventional boundaries of time and place. His recording credits include collaborations with Charles Mingus and Peter Gabriel, alongside his own albums Two Views of the Amazon, Anadyomene, Memories of the Rain-Forest, The Tail of the Tiger, Sentimental Journey, Escher, Breath and Winds of Change.

He has published two books on the theory and practice of overtone singing, La voce dell’arcobaleno and Nel cielo di Indra. He has been a member of the Club of Budapest, founded by Ervin László to promote planetary consciousness. He taught at the Florence Conservatory until 2011.

Stefano Diotallevi holds conservatory diplomas in piano, jazz arranging, chamber music and music education. He also earned a degree in music history from Sapienza University of Rome, with a thesis on piano music in Futurism.

He performs with a variety of jazz, chamber and world music ensembles. His teaching work has included the Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio and the Licinio Refice Conservatory in Frosinone.

Roberto Laneri is a composer, wind player — clarinets, saxophones and didgeridoo — and overtone singer. He studied philosophy in Rome and music in the United States, receiving a PhD from the University of California, San Diego. His teachers included Lejaren Hiller, Charles Mingus, William O. Smith, John Silber and Keith Humble.

After many years of work in contemporary music, his music has developed beyond established categories and conventional boundaries of time and place. His recording credits include collaborations with Charles Mingus and Peter Gabriel, alongside his own albums Two Views of the Amazon, Anadyomene, Memories of the Rain-Forest, The Tail of the Tiger, Sentimental Journey, Escher, Breath and Winds of Change.

He has published two books on the theory and practice of overtone singing, La voce dell’arcobaleno and Nel cielo di Indra. He has been a member of the Club of Budapest, founded by Ervin László to promote planetary consciousness. He taught at the Florence Conservatory until 2011.