Giacomo Grassi

Educated as a classical musician, Giacomo Grassi has later expanded his aesthetics from jazz to electroacoustics. He has performed in UK, where he studied at the Farnham College - Surrey; in Palestine/Israel – Jerusalem and Ramallah, at the Franco-German Cultural Centre; in France with Sin[x]thesis at the Festival International de Musique Universitaire (FIMU) of Belfort; in Germany, where his composition Geographies was chosen for the concert of the First International C-Sound Conference, in October 2011 at the HMTMH of Hanover. An interview, about the ideation and the process of composing, can be found in: "Ways ahead - Proceedings of the First Csound Conference"; Eds. J.Heintz, A.Hofmann, I.McCurdy; Cambridge Scholar Publishing, 2013. In the Progetto Guaccero of 2011, Giacomo Grassi conducted his Apres la côte, blanc for jazz orchestra and electronics in Monopoli. He wrote the electronic music for William Shakespeare's The Tempest, directed by Craig Peritz on May-June 2011 at the Eutheca Theatre in Rome. His electroacoustic compositions can be listened to on sonus.ca In 2008/09, for the Franco-Palestinian Association 'Al Kamandjati', he taught Piano to Palestinian children and kids in Ramallah, Jenin, in villages and refugee camps of the West Bank. Working with the producer Giovanni Amighetti, he recorded the piano solo album Across the Stars released on December 1, 2015 for Arte Sonora. In 2016 he publishes the album Essence, a sort of manifesto of his pianistic aesthetics, where a precise poetical identity starts to emerge. Born in Grottaglie (Italy) in 1984, Giacomo Grassi started to study the Piano at the age of 6 and graduated in 2004. He then specialized in Interpretative & Compositional studies at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Giovanni Paisiello of Taranto; in Jazz, cum laude, at the Conservatorio Nino Rota of Monopoli; and in Electroacoustics at the Conservatorio Niccolò Piccinni of Bari. Giacomo Grassi graduated in Philosophy, cum laude, at the Università degli Studi di Bari Aldo Moro with the thesis in philosophical hermeneutics "La vaghezza fertile dell’archiscrittura. Jacques Derrida".