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Simone Zanchini

Considered one of the most interesting and innovative accordion players on the international scene, his quest takes him to the limit of contemporary, acoustic and electronic sound experiment, and more other contaminations mixed together., super-refined influences issuing in a an absolutely personal approach for improvisation. He received an honours diploma in the classical accordion from the Conservatory “G.Rossini” of Pesaro.

He is an eclectic artist, whose concert activity involves groups of from various fields of music (improvisation, contemporary music, jazz, classical music). He has performed at the most important international festivals: Clusone Jazz, Umbria Jazz, Tivoli Jazz, Berchidda Jazz, Sant’Anna Arresi, Barga Jazz, Mara Jazz, Vignola Jazz, Ravenna Festival, Rossini opera Festival , Teggiano Jazz etc. and in a lot of important international festivals in France, Austria, Germany, England, Holland, Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Slovenia, Croatia, Macedonian, Spain, England, Tunisia, Lebanese, India, Russian and Japan.

Simone can boast collaborations with many musicians of international fame: Thomas Clausen, Gianluigi Trovesi, Javier Girotto, Paolo Fresu, Marco Tamburini, Massimo Manzi, Bruno Tommaso, Ettore Fioravanti, Mario Marzi, Michele Rabbia, Giovanni Maier,Tamara Obrovac, Krunoslav Levacic, Vasko Atanasovski, Antonello Salis, Han Bennink, Art Van Damme, Jasper Soffers, Adam Nussbaum.

Since 1999 Simone is the first accordion player in the “Ensemble Strumentale Scaligero” of La Scala Theatre in Milano, with this group he plays tours everywhere in the world.

Recently he published two new CDs called: Fuga per Art and Better Alone. In Fuga per Art , Simone revisits, in personal style, two of the most important living accordion players: Art Van Damme and Frank Marocco, respecting always that characteristic sound created using accordion and vibraphone together, following a kind of jazz-language usually not much played with this instrument above all in Europe. Better Alone...! is a solo-project in which he experiments all sound possibilities of his instrument through the use of a particular midi accordion live-electronic and laptop.

Currently He has two new projects which include his passion for contemporary music: Simone Zanchini Quartet: Entropia (D. Caliri, G.Maier, M. Rabbia, S.Zanchini) and Elettrotico Trio ( A.Alessi, C. Calcagnile, S.Zanchini).

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A420VP Victoria


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Simone Zanchini: The Music Of Nino Rota

Read "Simone Zanchini: The Music Of Nino Rota" reviewed by Howard Mandel


"I'm a musician who plays accordeon, not an accordeonist who plays jazz," says Simone Zanchini, proud of a distinction that is substantiated by Nino--his 25th album in the 20 years since his recording debut. Using vast resources drawn from the panoply of music he's studied, discovered, invented and developed for his too often stereotyped and maligned but in truth magnificent instrument, Zanchini embraces and transforms half a dozen already complexly compelling works of the great Italian soundtrack composer Nino Rota, ...

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Vasko Atanasovski: Phoenix

Read "Phoenix" reviewed by Chris M. Slawecki


Phoenix captures the voice of one of Eastern Europe's most acclaimed and creative musical ensembles, the Adrabesa Quartet founded and led by Slovenian maestro Vasko Atanasovski, and amplifies this unique voice throughout MoonJune Records' global distribution network. Phoenix thus demonstrates that the globalization of jazz hasn't muted the strong, perhaps even essential, regional accents in its overall voice. Founded in 2005, the Adrabesa Quartet on Phoenix features a somewhat unusual though colorful instrumental lineup. Founder and leader Atanasovski ...

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Adrabesa Quartet: Phoenix

Read "Phoenix" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky


Slovenian saxophonist Vasko Atanasovski has a gift for marrying seemingly disparate sounds, styles and cultures, as demonstrated on this compelling date. Binding virtuoso Italian accordionist Simone Zanchini, French tuba titan Michel Godard and Polish drumming force Bodek Janke, and enhancing the scenery with the presence of his son, guest cellist Ariel Vei Atanasovski, this leader erases borderlines. He essentially forsakes the concept of strict style for the sake of greater substance, and the music is all the better for that ...

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Stefano Cantini - Simone Zanchini Bikers Duo all'Osservatorio Astronomico di Arcetri

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Stefano Cantini -Simone Zanchini Bikers Duo Firenze Osservatorio Astronomico di Arcetri 22.6.2017 Sono ormai una decina d'anni che Stefano “Cocco" Cantini e Simone Zanchini si conoscono, da quando si incontrarono nel quartetto di Raffello Pareti, e da allora il loro duo è rimasto una costante delle rispettive attività artistiche. Li uniscono molte cose, che vanno aldilà della passione per un jazz venato di lirismo e dell'entusiasmo genialmente creativo per questa musica, arrivando a includere ...

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Innovatori della fisarmonica alle prese con la tradizione

Read "Innovatori della fisarmonica alle prese con la tradizione" reviewed by Neri Pollastri


Un nuovo disco a testa per due dei nostri migliori fisarmonicisti -Simone Zanchini e Luciano Biondini -entrambi noti per non attardarsi sulla tradizione, né dello strumento, né del repertorio nazionale. Sorprende perciò trovarli in questo caso entrambi impegnati su materiali che, in prima approssimazione, verrebbe da considerare (in senso non nobile) “da esportazione": il liscio di Secondo Casadei nel primo caso, la canzone italiana da Paoli a Modugno fino a Pino Daniele, con aggiunte di Carpi e Morricone, nel secondo. ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Phoenix

MoonJune Records
2020

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The Music Of Nino Rota

In + Out Records
2019

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My Accordion Concept

SILTA Records
2012

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Better Alone...!

SILTA Records
2009

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Faro

Wide Sound
2006

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