Francesca Ciommei - Jazz Singer

Francesca Ciommei Resume

FRANCESCA CIOMMEI. Jazz singer and composer. She has been a professional singer since 1992, working in theatres, sessions and gigs, and covering a wide range of contemporary styles (traditional and classic jazz, soul, pop, folk, opera, classical Neapolitan). Dubbung. Francesca grew up listening to the Jazz of Louis Armstrong, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Mel Tormè, Scott Joplin, Duke Ellington, Count Basie, Sonny Rollins and, well... Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Verdi and Rossini. She also worked as a cartoonist and comic artist ("Tira-e-Molla "...). THE BEGINNINGS. She started her musical training when she was eleven, with M°Adriana Cecchini Bonavolontà. In the Nineties she entered as chorus member into the "Coro Diego Carpitella" (University of Rome “La Sapienza”), directed by M°Lucio Ivaldi. Jazz training: M° Cinzia Spata. Conservatorio di Musica "Licino Refice" di Frosinone (Italy). It also follows several stages, directed by: Barry Harris, Shwann Monteiro, Ruggero Artale, etc. During those years she was also performing in the music clubs in Rome (Fonclea, Saxophone, Sottosopra, etc..). From the mid-nineties to 2003, she has lived and performed in Ischia, (often travelling and singing in Germany, Austria and Campania). In the “Green Iland” she had the opportunity to learn vocal technique and opera classical repertoire of the Neapolitan tradition, with M° Nello Di Majo (Teatro San Carlo in Naples), and with which she performed. In 2003, she came back to Rome, followed the Corso Nazionale per la Metodologia Orff-Schulwerk, directed by M° Giovanni Piazza (Scuola Popolare di Musica Donna Olimpia), and began working as Orff-Schulwerk operator for the I.N.D.A.C.O. Association (by M°Bruno Zoia)...and, of course, she started again performing (New Orleans Cafe, Fonclea, FourXXXX, Saxophone, I Canterini, Cineporto, etc..). COLLABORATIONS. Francesca Ciommei has many collaborations and performances alongside some of leading artists as: Eric Daniel, Riccardo Biseo, "Red" Pellini, Massimo Carrano, Carletto Loffredo (2004 - 2007 vocalist in "Carletto Loffredo Jazz Band": Jazz Festival in Rimini 2004, Villa Celimontana 2005, Casa del Jazz 2006 and 2007, New Orleans Café, etc..), Lino Patruno ("Giornata Internazionale del Sollievo” 2006, Casa del Jazz 2008, 2010, etc..),Giorgio Cuscito, Antonello Vannucchi, Bepi D'Amato, Karl Potter, Harold Bradley ... AND ALSO WITH: Claudio Colasazza, Alberico Di Meo, Luca Ruggero Jacovella, Stefano Scartocci, Antonio Sorgentone, Francesca Tandoi, Adriano Urso, Claudio Passavanti (piano), Danilo Cartia, Daniele De Salvo, Pino Iodice, Fabiano Lelli, Alessandro Russo, Massimo Satta (guitar), Guido Giacomini, Giorgio Rosciglione, Bruno Zoia (double bass), Andrea Moneta (bass, sticks and drums), Fabrizio Aiello, Alberto Botta, Bruno Lagattolla, Renato Musillo, Alfredo Romeo, Lucio Turco, (drums), Paolo Farinelli, Mauro Verrone, Sebastiano Forti, Stefano Lefevre, Andrea Tardioli, Gianluca Galvani, Carlo Ficini, Michele Pavese, Paolo Petrozziello (sax, clarinet, cornet, trumpet, tuba, trombone), Claudio Gregori (GREG), Katia Rizzo, and many other great musicians and nice people ...

Updated: May 7, 2019