As a leader
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The Value of Choices
Gabriele di Franco Jazz Orchestra. Eighteen musicians and four guests, between jazz and classical orchestration.
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Beautiful Useless Songs
A song cycle for voice, guitar, double bass, drums and tenor saxophone.
Sarah Klenès, Fil Caporali, Daniel Jonkers, Lennert Baerts
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LULELA
An interactive concert with multiple evolutionary possibilities.
Collaborative
As sideman
VIVA
VIVA is an innovative double-instrument and electronic jazz project created by Taiwan-born, Brussels-based pianist, composer and sound artist YuTing Li.
Dante Loves Jazz
An international jazz group brought together by a shared passion for Italian song. Well-known Italian songs, reworked and arranged by Michel Bisceglia and Alice Lenaz, from Mia Martini, Murolo, Mina, Vinicius, Ornella Vanoni, Toquinho, Fabrizio De André, Rossana Casale, Fred Buscaglione and Andrea Parodi, among others: a journey through the rich history of Italian music, with "amore" as its red thread. Michel Bisceglia (piano), Alice Claudia Lenaz (voice), Gabriele di Franco (guitar), Werner Lauscher (double bass), Lieven Venken (drums).
Matte Finish
Taiwanese vocalist Wen-Hui Tsai presents Matte Finish, a new project featuring original works apart from her 6tet, Vestige. The music explores inner landscapes, relationships and temporality through layered sound and space, creating a subtle, evolving sonic narrative. Wen-Hui Tsai (voice), Machiel Heremans (guitar), Gabriele di Franco (guitar), Fil Caporali (double bass), with Vanesa Diaz Gil as guest on voice.
Ramon van Merkenstein trio
Ramon van Merkenstein on double bass, Lieven Venken on drums, Gabriele di Franco on guitar. Albums Quiet Dreams (2021) and Waiting for a Summer Storm (2024). ramonvanmerkenstein.com
Flavio Rio
Flavio Rio is stepping into a new era. His debut album, The Edge (2027), is on the way: a bold, genre-blurring collection where indie-pop, soul and jazz meet at the crossroads of identity and belonging. Fresh off winning the 2025 BXBOOST programme (AB x VOLTA), the Brussels-based, Italian-born singer-songwriter is ready to show the world his most personal and promising work yet. flaviorio.com
Past
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Nobis trio
Original music and classic adaptations, for voice, flugelhorn and guitar.
Wen-Hui Tsai, Marco Puzzello
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LULELA VR
A collective VR experience, for Oculus Quest, with an integrated music-theatre performance.
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Gottfried di Franco
The whole Europe on one stage.
Stefan Gottfried, Raúl Santana, Diederik Billiet, João Sousa
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Q-Some Big Band
An eighteen-piece contemporary jazz orchestra from Belgium, where Gabriele di Franco played guitar and wrote in the Q-Some Composer Hub, from 2019 to 2025.
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Bud Powell Jazz Orchestra
A big band of 22 musicians in Salento, directed by Gabriele di Franco from 2016 to 2020.
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Tesseract trio
Two Belgians and one Italian join forces to create a trio.
Otto Kint, Egon Loosveldt
MEI
A bassless modern jazz trio, from 2014 to 2016.
Alessandro Casciaro, Alberto Stefanizzi
Rubiks
A Brussels four piece, from 2015 to 2018, between jazz and rock: largely improvised pieces next to tight themes and grooves.
Géronimo de Halleux, Federico Pecoraro, Mathieu Grillo