In my opinion music is something totally abstract and at the same time a process of synthesis with a rational train of thought.
Research is the motor of my creativity: thanks to my creativity I discover a reality that needs to be described in its complexity through an ever changing musical language.
Art needs to recognise my intimate thoughts and I am constantly urged to widen my horizons, to find it in my heart.
I discover a sound in silence and a new dream within a sound.
I don't know when I began my musical adventure -maybe it was my father's dreams (he was a musician - saxophonist) even before I was born.
I believe 'incipit' contains the real sense of things, even if a reality like life, so complex, goes forward articulated by the rules of causality.
I was 5 or 6 years old when I first saw a piano, and since that day I've never stopped moving my fingers over the magic keyboard.
Today, in spite of many years of study and 'satisfaction', my biggest emotion is always when I re-discover a sense of the new and unknown that the 12 notes are able to arouse in me, just as when I was a child.
Thanks to my studies, history has become an important part of my cultural lugguage, allowing me to move forwards and backwards in time: among classical and contemporary music, and forward to my own compositions of today.
Writing music has become a necessity: giving voice to my fantasies and realizing musical compositions that are the fruit of a harmonic melody, but always connected with an emotion: compositions require method and sensibility but feelings are fundamental. It is the same thing for improvisations: compositions realized in a short time must always be done with passion, since this involves a dialogue with yourself and the musicians you work with.
Art demands dedication. Music is like architecture. I would like to quote the words of a great architect 'Le Corbusier' that have profoundly influenced me.
In Life we need to operate,
re-act with modesty,
exactness, precision
the only atmosphere possible
for the creation of an artist
with regularity, continuity
and?perseverance. The only thing
transmittable is thought
the noble part of the fruit of work.
This thought
can become or not become
a victory over destiny
in the world after death
and assume maybe
another unforeseeable dimension.
?Le Corbusier?
Nicola Andrioli was born in Brindisi 01/06/1977, son of art. He graduated in Classical music and Jazz.
He becomes proficient in contemporary music and the repertoire of F. Chopin and Ravel.
His passion for classical music becomes recognised in various International and National competitions.
Later, he embarks on the the road of Jazz, becomes more and more fascinated by the sense of freedom transmitted by jazz, the ability to live freely in inventiveness and personal compositions.
He has been awarded many important prizes:
- 1st. prize section at the ?Festival ?Lecco Jazz 2001- Prize Stefano Cerri?
- 1st. pianist prize in the ?International Jazz Competition 2001 Friederich Gulda?
- Special acknowledgement at the contest ?Prize Massimo Urbani 2003?
- He receives special acknowledgements from ?Berklee School? (summer 2000, Umbria Jazz Clinics)
- 2002 at Siena Jazz
- September 2005 he receives the 2nd. Prize at the ?Ethno-music Contest? in Milan.
Most recently, he has studied with: George Cage, Russ Hoffmann, Dave Liebman, Barry Harris, Franc D'Andrea, Paul Birro, Stefano Battaglia, Enrico Rava, Joey Barron, Rick Margitza, Kenny Barron, Henry Texier, Burrny Guy and Archie Sheep.
In 2005 with his trio he presents a rhythmical repertory at the International Jazz Contest "Massimo Urbani" He also participates at the 'Spoleto Vocal Jazz Workshop together withas collaborator with Michelle Hendricks, the singer.
Composer of music for trios quartets and quintets, he has varied experiences, as a concert performer, from the piano to the big band.
Currently he lives commuting between Italy and Paris, where he is currently attending a course in the National Advanced Conservatory and participating in many musical activities in Italy and abroad.
DISCOGRAPHY: My love and I by Giuseppe Bassi
Mimmo Campanale ?.Of course
RECENT PROJECTS: Jazz trio with Giuseppe Bassi and Mimmo Campanale QUARTET
ETHNO-JAZZ with Raffaele Casarano, Mark Bardoscia and Dario Congedo.
TRIO with Morena Brindisi and Vincenzo Presta.
