Emiliano Rodriguez

Emiliano
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Fiesta Saxophone Quartet & Massimo Folliero
"Piano & Sax Connection!!"


Emiliano Rodriguez - soprano saxophone
Fabrizio Benevelli - alto saxophone
Ivan Curzi - tenor saxophone
Julien Palai - baritone saxophone
Massimo  Folliero - piano
This Music Project assembles some of the best Italian saxophone players, who have studied in depth multiple music styles (classical, jazz, ethnic etc.) and Massimo Folliero who is concert pianist with a prestigious international career.

Saxophones are music instruments with an impressive versatility, in fact all together can be considered a little but perfect orchestra. Then the piano completes the ensemble with its unlimited colorful sound dynamic. This is a strong impact quintet with limitless undertones, furthermore, the added value comes from the intriguing music proposal, which includes multiple music styles as well as the use of original arrangements.
Our repertoire, in this music proposal, is totally focused on renown composers such as Gershwin and Piazzolla, contaminators of music languages which were ahead of their times. Moreover, they can be considered two of the most influential personalities coming from a continent which has brought about important changes in the whole music field.
Massimo Folliero: as a soloist and chamber musician he gave recitals in several and important venues in Italy and abroad like the "Muza Kawasaki" Auditorium in Tokyo (Japan); the Carnegie Hall in New York and Frye Museum in Seattle (USA); the “Heritage Chapel” of the Music Centre in Christchurch and “Corelli Academy of Arts” in Auckland (New Zealand); the “Salon de Actos” of Madrid Ateneo (Spain); the Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music in Singapore; the Brunei Music Society (Brunei); the UCSI University in Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia); the “Lee Ysaan” Concert Hall and "Y. C. Cheng" Lecture Theatre di Hong Kong. the Encore Music Society in Vancouver (Canada).

Fiesta Sax Quartet assembles some of the best Italian saxophone players, who have studied in depth multiple music styles (classical, jazz, ethnic, etc.). They collaborated with some of the most important orchestras such as "Teatro alla Scala" in Milan, "Orchestra Sinfonica della RAI" in Turin, "Teatro dell'Opera” in Rome, "Teatro San Carlo" in Naples,  “Filarmonica Arturo Toscanini”, “Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana”, etc., great conductors such as R. Muti, D. Robertson, G. Pretre, D. Harding, D. Oren, Y. Termikanov, E. Inbal, R. Chailly, D. Gatti, W. Marshall, W.Barkymer, J. Adams, etc, prestigious ensembles such as “I Virtuosi Italiani”, “I Solisti della Scala”, “Ensemble Strumentale Scaligero”, “Orchestra Italiana del Cinema”, “Saxofollia”, “Italian Saxophone Orchestra”, etc., classic musicians such as F. Meloni, L. Vignali, C. Giuffredi, A. Giuffredi, M. Pierobon, F. Mondelci, M. Polidori, O. Kern, etc., jazz musicians as G. Trovesi, P. Fresu, E. Rava, A. Salis, F. Bosso, F. Boltro, P. Favre, H. Bullock, S. Bollani, M. Tamburini, Dado Moroni, M. Godard, etc., and moreover E. Morricone, N. Piovani, Elio, M. Crippa, etc.
Contacts
Emiliano Rodriguez
++39 339 2095491
emilianorodriguezsax@gmail.com
Massimo Folliero
++39 347 0349227
massimo.folliero@inwind.it
Ivan Curzi
++39 333 6194120
ivansax81@gmail.com
Julien Palai
++39 329 1297308
julienpalai@gmail.com
Fabrizio Benevelli
++39 347 1822568
fbenevelli@yahoo.it
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