Antonello Paliotti: Long Shadows (Guitar Solos & Chamber Works)

ANTONELLO PALIOTTI: Started working with Roberto De Simone as conductor and composer on productions including : "Le tarantelle del rimorso","Populorum Progressio", "Li Turchi viaggiano" (published on CD in 2003), "L'Opera dei Centosedici" etc. In 1995 he wrote "Canto della possibilità di sopravvivere" for the saxophone of Michael Brecker and orchestra. Between 1999 and 2001, Paliotti conceived a series of compositions for the "Solisti del Teatro San Carlo", which were subsequently collected in a CD produced in 2006, entitled "Musica Obliqua". Next, in 2001, came "Tarantella storta", a cd that won Paliotti an award in Germany and two in France. The concert with this repertoire visited 15 European countries and was broadcasted by Hessischer Rundfunk in 2002.
For the 2004 edition of the "Leuciana Festival" he wrote the theatre play in music "Coppola Rossa" that led to the 2006 CD of the same name. In the same year, the Benetton Foundation commissioned a work that bore the name “Le Forme di Dioniso”. It was performed by the Quartetto Borciani at the Treviso “Palazzo Bomben”. In 2007 he wrote the “Variazioni concertanti” for solos and large orchestra, after Carlo d’Angiò, first executed in Naples, the same year, at the Teatro Mediterraneo. In the same year the Spanish tenor Joaquin Pixan commissioned the cd “Musica entre canto, musica e poesia”, with Paliotti’s originals compositions and arrangements for a quartet of musician by the Opera di Madrid and the pianist Giovanni Auletta. In 2011 he wrote “Concert du Printemps” for two mandolins and orchestra, commissioned by the Festival “Mandolines de Lunel” (France) and executed by Hamilton de Holanda & Mike Marshall. Still at the Lunel Festival, in 2014 he presented "Nei mari della luna”for two mandolins and a large orchestra. From 2016 he collaborates with Marco Beasley with whom he recorded, in duo, the CD "Catari ', Maggio, l'Ammore" (2017). He has realized over fifty records, the most relevant ones of which include: "Condannati a vagare sui mari", of 1996, featuring the first recordings of several of Schönberg’s “Brettl-Lieder”, and “La montagna fredda” (2004) containing an eclectic mixture of own compositions, and improvisations on themes taken from the classical Neapolitan tradition. Other partnerhips include: Cinema: Roman Coppola, Georg Brintrup, John Turturro, Pappi Corsicato, Antonio Capuano and others. Theatre: Mariano Rigillo, Moni Ovadia, Maurizio Scaparro, Cloris Brosca, Michele Monetta, Alessandro Haber, Ettore Massarese and others.
As well as: Opera de Lyon, Teatro San Carlo, Art Ensemble of Chicago, I Zezi, ZDF-Artè, Raisat, Torino-Settembre Musica, Piccolo Teatro di Milano, Associazione Scarlatti, Eugenio Bennato and many others.

Armanda Desidery is a pianist, composer and arranger from Naples. Raised in a musical family, she began with drums at the age of five and took up the piano at nine. Her father, the musician and teacher Gianni Desidery, played an important role in her early musical education.

Classically trained, she has developed a personal musical language that draws on jazz, Latin American music and Mediterranean traditions. Her work includes original compositions, ensemble projects and collaborations with other musicians. She appears as pianist on Antonello Paliotti’s Da Vinci album Long Shadows.

Luigi Pettrone is an Italian clarinettist. He graduated at the Nicola Sala Conservatory in Benevento in 1995 and completed further studies at the Lorenzo Perosi Conservatory in Campobasso in 2006, with the highest marks, honours and a special mention.

His advanced training includes work with Sisto D’Onofrio, Alessandro Carbonare, Corrado Giuffredi and Calogero Palermo. He has collaborated with the orchestra of the Teatro San Carlo in Naples and performed as a soloist and chamber musician. His recordings include Antonello Paliotti’s Long Shadows for Da Vinci Classics.

Roberto Bastos, also known as Robertinho Bastos, is a Brazilian percussionist active in Italy. His work connects Brazilian rhythmic traditions with popular music, jazz and cross-cultural ensemble projects.

He has collaborated with musicians including Tullio De Piscopo and Sergio Caputo and is among the performers associated with Banda Brasileira. His recordings for Da Vinci include the percussion parts on Antonello Paliotti’s Long Shadows, where he joins an ensemble of guitar, clarinet, piano and double bass.

Antonello Paliotti, born in Naples in 1963, is an Italian composer and guitarist. A pupil and long-standing collaborator of Roberto De Simone, he has worked as a composer and conductor across concert music, music theatre, dance and film.

His works include Canto della possibilità di sopravvivere for Michael Brecker and orchestra, Messa per il tempo di guerra, the music collected on Musica Obliqua for soloists of the Teatro di San Carlo, and Concert du Printemps, commissioned for mandolinists Hamilton de Holanda and Mike Marshall. His collaborations also include Lucilla Galeazzi, Marco Beasley and the Quartetto Borciani. Neapolitan musical traditions, contemporary composition and improvisation meet throughout his work.