Emiliano Loconsolo
Emiliano Loconsolo vocal
performing
with ISI Big Band
Style:
Jazz Vocalist
Country: Italy
A native of Milan, Italy, singer Emiliano Loconsolo has collaborated with some of the best jazz artists in Europe like Stefano “Cocco” Cantini, Stefano Bollani, Paolino Dalla Porta, and Massimo Manzi. He has performed at the famous Capolinea club in Milan and at lounges throughout his homeland and Spain, as well as at the Lucca Jazz Festival in Tuscany, Break in Jazz in Milan, and the prestigious Umbria Jazz Winter Festival in Orvieto. Mr. Loconsolo was a finalist for the Italian National Award Premio Massimo Urbani in 2001 and the subject of a two-part radio special broadcast on Punto Radio Cascina 91.6 Mhz from Pisa. His performances have also been broadcast on ABC Radio in Australia, as well as on public radio in Russia, and Buenos Aires, Argentina.
Emigrating to Boston, Massachusetts, in 2002 upon receiving Berklee School of Music’s international “Best Talent Scholarship”?” their most prestigious 2-year grant ?” Emiliano subsequently received a merit grant to attend New England Conservatory for advanced studies. A versatile singer whose repertoire spans from the American Song Book to contemporary experimental music he is currently involved in collaborative work with avant-garde Jazz legend Irene Aebi, and performs at Scullers and the Harvard Faculty Club, as well as Jordan Hall, the Berklee Performance Center, and has a very popular regular engagement at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in Boston.
In Italy, Mr. Loconsolo was the founder of “CantinaJazz”, a unique wine tasting-concert experience where audience members enjoy tasting fine wines while listening to fascinating narration and Jazz classics all delivered in an informative but playful atmosphere. Three years running throughout Italy, CantinaJazz explored the history of concerts played in wineries, and of wines created and dedicated to musicians such as the vintage “For Duke,” a full bodied Shiraz-Sangiovese-Merlot produced by Fuso Carmignani in Lucca (Italy) and totally inspired by his love of Duke Ellington’s music. Locally Mr. Loconsolo has joined with vocalists Angela Rossi and Carmen Marsico in creating “Newpoli” an Italian Folk Group of two guitars, two percussionists, and three singers, all swathed in rich colors of the past, whose purpose is to rediscover the important roots of Italian folk music and all of the wonderfully “uneducated” traditional music played to the exotic rhythms of Tammurriata, Tarantella, and Pizzica.
Together with Irene Aebi, Mr. Loconsolo is organizing the American Premeire of Futurities, an opera created by legendary jazz soprano saxophonist Steve Lacy and renowned American poet Robert Creeley, both of whom have recently passed away. This historic groundbreaking song cycle, which was first performed at the Festival de Lille, France in 1984, focuses upon the patterns and rhythms of life: fairy tales, love lyrics, meditations, and aphorisms.
Mr. Loconsolo currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.