BIOGRAPHY

The saxophonist, composer and arranger Silvio Zalambani for several years has dedicated himself mainly to artistic, educational and research musical activities on traditional Latin American music, in particular Tango and Cuban, Brazilian and Rio de la Plata culture; all his compositions are published by Borgatti Musical Editions.

He usually plays in a duo with Argentine pianist Federico Lechner and in a trio Tango Malandra with the Argentine singer Sandra Rehder and the Argentine guitarist Adrian Fioramonti; he's also the creator and the artistic director of his 4to Tango, of the project Grupo Candombe, of the saxophone quintet Amerindia Ensemble and the trio Tango Tres.

He collaborates with the cultural anthropologist Maria Susana Azzi (official biographer of Astor Piazzolla) and with Quinteto Revolucionario, selected by the Piazzolla Foundation as the best interpreter in the world of the music of the famous composer and winner of a Latin Grammy award, the group is composed of Sebastián Prusak, Joaquín Benítez Kitegroski, Estéban Falabella, Cristian Zárate e Sergio Rivas.

On the occasion of the centenary of Astor Piazzolla's birth, Zalambani performed at the National Auditorium in Madrid as a guest of the European project Piazzolla x 100, led by Federico Lechner and formed together with Daniel "Pipi" Piazzolla (Astor's nephew), Claudio Constantini, Sheila Blanco, Toño Miguel and implemented by the Andrés Segovia chamber orchestra.

As well as in Italy, with his projects he performed in Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, San Marino, Spain and Switzerland, also collaborating with many international artists, including: Gabriele Mirabassi, Marco Tamburini, Bruno Tommaso, Elio Coppola, Massimo Mantovani, Pedro Mena Peraza, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Donovan Mixon, Mario Féres, Duda Lazarini, Arismar do Espirito Santos, Antonio Serrano, Jorge Retamoza, Fernando Lerman, Mariano Gamba, Franco Luciani, El Chino Laborde, Raúl Chiocchio, Pablo Motta and the Argentine vocal quartet Flores Negras Tango.

As a soloist he proposed with the following orchestras: Teatro Comunale of Bologna (Italy), Teatro Comunale G. Verdi of Trieste (Italy), Teatro Sociale of Rovigo (Italy), Orchestra Filarmonica of Bacau (Romania), Orchestra Camerata Almagro of Buenos Aires (Argentine), USP Filarmonica of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil), Orchestra Filarmonica de Gran Canaria (Spain).

He represented Italy at six of the last editions of the World Tango Cumbre (Seville-Spain, Valparaiso-Chile, Bariloche-Argentine, Seinajoki-Finland, Zarate-Argentine, Melilla-Spain), at the 23rd Festival del Caribe - Fiesta del Fuego in Santiago and Guantanamo (Cuba), at the 23rd International Tango Festival in Granada (Spain), at the 3rd International Tango Festival in Barcelona (Spain '13), at three editions of Pourpre Périgord Jazz Festival in Bergerac (France), also performing on live at Argentine National Radio and other important music clubs in Buenos Aires, such as the Torquato Tasso cultural center, the Bebop Club, the Club Social Cambalache, the Clásica y Moderna and the Recoleta cultural center; he's participated at Metastasio Jazz in Prato (Italy) and on live at Italian National Radio, RAI Radio3 La stanza della musica and RAI Radio1 Brasil.

He was interviewed many times by argentinean TV Solo Tango, the Argentine National Radio and La 2x4 Tango, also he's mentioned inside the Argentine magazines Fractura Expuesta, Diario Folk and into Tango's Dictionary of Catalunya (Casa America Catalunya).

He has recordings 9 CD and 1 DVD on live to his name: Guardia Vieja (1998) and Entrada Prohibida (2017) with Tango Tres; Grupo Candombe (2001) and Grupo Candombe 2 (2005) with Grupo Candombe; Nostalgia del presente (2011) and Tango Live DVD on live (2013) with Sandra Rehder; Dejà vù (2015) and Viaggiatori/Viajeros (2019) in Duo with Federico Lechner, Brasil pra mim (2016) with italian clarinetist Gabriele Mirabassi, Saxofón Porteño (2022) with Amerindia Ensemble; he recorded like a guest inside the CD Crossfades (2019) with the Elise Hall Saxophone Quartet.

He is regularly invited as a teacher Board in masterclasses or as a concert soloist in festivals in Europe and America; in Spain at the Conservatory of Music of Albacete, Jaén, Lliría, Seville and Valencia; in Netherlands at the Conservatory of Music of Utrecht; in Brazil in the USP and UNAERP Universities of Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo) and EMAC-UFG of Goiânia (Goiás); in Argentine at the Superior Conservatory of Music Manuel De Falla of Buenos Aires.

He was the creator of the International Festival Fiato al Brasile and the artistic director from 2012 to 2017.

Silvio Zalambani is graduated in Saxophone, Clarinet and Jazz music; he has a saxophone educator since 1999 at the Antonio Scontrino National Conservatory of Music in Trapani (Italy) and since 2016 he is also teaching Jazz Saxophone and Jazz History too.