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Emilio Galante

Emilio Galante was born in Bologna, Italy. He studied composition and flute at the Bologna Musical Academy and in 1979 received his Conservatory Diploma in flute-playing. Galante also studied at the University of Bologna where he took a degree in Philosophy, delivering a dissertation on Musical Aesthetics. In 1982, he was awarded the Masterclass Diploma at the Musical Academy in Munich, Germany.

Galante has played (in various groups) (with various chamber groups and orchestras) all over Europe as well as in the USA, Russia and Turkey. He has also performed as a soloist in La Scala (Milano), La Fenice (Venice), and Salzburger Residenz.

He now mostly performs contemporary music, including his own compositions, and collaborates with both classical and jazz musicians. In fact, in 1998 he founded Sonata Islands, a chamber ensemble devoted to new music, and in 1999 recorded "Sciare di Fuoco" for BMG-Ricordi, a work for eight musicians, inspired by the landscapes of the southern islands. Sonata Islands has its own festival, "Jazz and Notation", which takes place in Milan and Trento and which showcases compositions that try to mix together jazz and new music.

Galante has recorded for various labels and national radio broadcasters: he recorded "Linea d'Ombra" (Shadow Line), a cd of his own compositions for solo flute and live electronics in 1993 for the Italian label Scatola Sonora and "Doppio Sogno" (Double Dream) in 1996, a work in duo with nine different musicians from both classical and jazz backgrounds. For Velut Luna he recorded "Campioni", a multimedia project inspired by a number of Italian sports champions, premiered in 2000, with Giovanni Sollima and Andrea Dulbecco.

His most recent recordings are “Torre Aquila” (2010), with Markus Stockhausen,  "Sonata islands meets Mahler" (2013) for ZDM. In 2016 “Doublesex” (A Simple Lunch), a oratorio for voice, female choir and jazz trio, between 2018 and 2020 “Soul Doctrine” (Innova), music by the american composer Zack Browning,  “Zeuhl Jazz” and “QBB” for the american label Chant Records, two works of avant rock.

His music has been played in various festivals, in New York, Tokyo, Paris and Milan and several of his pieces have been published by Falls House Press and Sonzogno.

In August 1997 he was invited to play his own music at the Chicago NFA Convention. 

Emilio Galante also performs in a woodwind quintet, the Kamera Quintet, with which he recorded a CD of self-transcribed progressive rock masterpieces (Genesis, King Crimson, Gentle Giant, Yes). He also teaches at the Music Conservatory in Trento.

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Sonata Islands: Meets Mahler

Read "Meets Mahler" reviewed by Alberto Bazzurro


Non il Mahler di Uri Caine, o di altri che l'hanno rivisitato; non una rilettura, più o meno “traditrice," ma un tributo: ecco cosa ci riserva quest'ennesimo notevole album di Sonata Islands, un gruppo che, come si dice in questi casi, meriterebbe ben altra considerazione, ben altra attenzione, nel panorama del jazz italiano (e non). Il Mahler che funge da suggestione-destinatario del lavoro è quello del Canto della terra (Das Lied von der Erde), partorito dal compositore ...

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Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

Meets Mahler

Zone Di Musica
2014

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Amer Volesse

Cooperstown Chamber Music Festival
2009

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Doppio Sogno

Numérica
1995

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Linea D'Ombra

Numérica
1993

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