Scott Joplin: Ragtime Sensation

Trio Entrée brings together Alberto Bardelloni, trumpet; Giancarlo Roberti, trombone; and Oscar Del Barba, piano. The ensemble made its debut in 2012. Its repertoire explores American music through an unusual combination of brass and piano. For Ragtime Sensation, Del Barba reworks Scott Joplin’s music, preserving the character of its melodies while opening them to the colours of the brass instruments and to variation.

Alberto Bardelloni — trumpet

Alberto Bardelloni has worked with leading Italian orchestras, including those of Teatro alla Scala, La Fenice and the Arena di Verona, under conductors such as Riccardo Muti, Giuseppe Sinopoli, Daniel Barenboim, Daniel Oren, Valery Gergiev, Alain Lombard, Georges Prêtre and Yuri Temirkanov. His activity as a soloist includes Baroque repertoire with S. Eufemia alla Fonte in Milan, Vox Auræ in Brescia, the Orchestra da Camera di Treviso and I Musici di Vivaldi. He has performed Bach’s Second Brandenburg Concerto and the Italian premiere of David R. Gillingham’s When Speaks the Signal-Trumpet Tone with the Brescia Wind Orchestra. He has made music programmes for Rai and Sky and taken part in educational projects for schools. His recordings include Arias for Soprano, Trumpet and Organ, An American Journey with Trio Entrée, and Ragtime Sensation. Chamber music is central to his work with Trio Entrée and Ottoni di Brescia. He teaches trumpet at the Lucio Campiani Conservatory in Mantua.

Giancarlo Roberti — trombone

Giancarlo Roberti graduated in trombone with the highest marks from the F. E. Dall’Abaco Conservatory in Verona and continued his studies in masterclasses with Michel Becquet and Branimir Slokar. A former member of the Orchestra Giovanile Italiana, he began working with professional orchestras at eighteen, including the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Teatro dell’Opera di Roma, Teatro Verdi in Trieste, I Solisti Veneti and the Orchestra da Camera di Mantova. He also qualified in auditions for the Carlo Felice in Genoa, San Carlo in Naples, La Fenice in Venice and the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo. At twenty-one he won the competition for principal trombone of the Arena di Verona orchestra. Alongside his orchestral career, he gives masterclasses and has taught trombone at the Giuseppe Tartini Conservatory in Trieste, from 2020 to 2022. His work also includes preparing and conducting wind ensembles.

Oscar Del Barba — piano

Oscar Del Barba is a pianist, accordionist, composer and arranger from Brescia, where he was born in 1968. He holds qualifications in piano, jazz, composition and wind-band orchestration. His musical language draws on classical training, jazz and a broad interest in popular traditions. He received scholarships to Berklee College of Music in 1993 and 1994, won the film-music section of the Scrivere in Jazz composition competition in Sassari in 2002, and received the Gorni Kramer Prize in 2009. His collaborators include Markus Stockhausen, Dave Liebman, Ralph Alessi, Javier Girotto and Francesco Guccini. He has performed across Europe and Latin America, written music for silent films, and worked extensively as an arranger. His recordings as a leader include Two Suites for Jazz Orchestra, Autoritratto, Giuseppe Verdi Entangled and In Fabula. He teaches jazz piano at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan.

Louis Chauvin was an American pianist and ragtime composer associated with the musical life of St Louis. He is remembered particularly for Heliotrope Bouquet (1907), written jointly with Scott Joplin. This slow rag preserves a rare example of Chauvin’s music in published form and remains his best-known composition.

Scott Joplin: (b northeast TX, between July 1867 and mid-Jan 1868; d New York, 1 April 1917). American composer. He is regarded as ragtime’s greatest exponent. Census records of 1870 and 1880 and Joplin’s death certificate establish that the frequently cited birth date of 24 November 1868 is incorrect.