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Vito Liturri

Vito Liturri is an italian composer and pianist, and a teacher at the Music Conservatory in Bari, Italy. He studied composition with Giacomo Manzoni, Sandro Gorli and Dinu Ghezzo, conducting with Nicola Samale, Roberto Duarte and Rino Marrone, electronic music with Agostino Di Scipio, classical piano with Giuseppe Binetti, Angela Montemurro and Emanuele Arciuli and jazz piano with Nico Marziliano; he also attended Siena Jazz advanced course. For 28 years now, he’s been teaching composition in italian Music Conservatories, and recently he also taught jazz composition in Matera. His music cover a wide range of styles, and tends to melt jazz with contemporary music, electronic music and progressive rock. He is also interested in the relationship between music and other art forms, such as teather, cinema and dance, and worked with Leopoldo Mastelloni, Emilio Solfrizzi, Antonio Stornaiolo, Edoardo Siravo, Andrea Gattinoni and others. In 2013, he founded the Vito Liturri trio with Marco Boccia on double bass and Lello Patruno on drums. The music of the trio reflects the various experiences of the three musicians and is particularly based on the interplay. The trio published three CDs of originals for the italian label Dodicilune, “After the Storm” (2014), “From Beyond” (2017) and "Desires and Fears" (2022).


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Vito Liturri Trio: Desires and Fears

Read "Desires and Fears" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Every city one walks through is a different dream. Every piece of music that vibrates across time and space is also a dream--an assertion framed to perfection by the Vito Liturri Trio's Desires And Fears. Italian pianist Liturri takes his inspiration from his countryman Italo Calvino's fantastical 1972 novel, Invisible Cities (Giudio Einaudi), a Nebula Award-nominated book that features Marco Polo's descriptions--to Emperor Kublai Khan--of 55 cities he (Polo) has experienced. The tales/prose poems told by Polo are ...

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Vito Liturri: From Beyond

Read "From Beyond" reviewed by Mike Jurkovic


With every note suspended luxuriously in the air so you can savor its resonance, this sonorously produced and beautifully played second recording from the Vito Liturri Trio is, from “Albe's Garden" to “An Empty Room" (all titles English translations) a delicious listen. The trio -Vito Liturri--piano, synth, electronics, Marco Boccia--double bass, and drummer/percussionist Lello Patruno play with a unified, seasoned integrity and an intuitive, emotional melodic desire. Languid creativity abounds and the interplay between the three players is ...

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Vito Liturri: From Beyond

Read "From Beyond" reviewed by Dan McClenaghan


Italian pianist Vito Liturri presents his sophomore CD release with From Beyond, a trio outing with a ten tune sequence that works almost as a suite. In fact, he tags the centerpiece, the four composition “From Beyond-Four Quadruple Suite." Part of the beauty and appeal of that suite, and the entire set, is the focus of Liturri's vision. He penned all but two one of the tunes, and those two exceptions he co-wrote. The continuity of mood and atmosphere of ...

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Desires and Fears

Dodicilune Records
2022

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From Beyond

Dodicilune
2017

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After the Storm

Dodicilune
2014

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