Q-some Dreamin’ Release Tour

15th February 2020 by Gabriele di Franco

Belgium, big band, composition, gabriele di franco, Q-some, release, tour

Q-some Dreamin’ Release Tour

When you let your thoughts run free, you get a broad view of what is possible with a big band. Then your own compositions germinate. Then a new generation of Belgian composers emerges who, together with the top of the latest generation of jazz musicians, shine their light on the future of Belgian Big Band music, in its absolute essence, as if in a common dream.

Dreamin’ is a program of the Q-Some Big Band in its purest form, with original work from their own ranks by Gabriele di Franco, Pierre-Antoine Savoyat, Manten Van Gils and Robbe Willems.

Q-Some Big Band is een hedendaags jazzorkest bestaande uit jonge, professionele muzikanten.

Vanuit de Q-Some Composer Hub verkennen ze de klank- en kleurrijkdom die een moderne bigband te bieden heeft. Met hun steeds verfrissende arrangementen, vernieuwende programma’s en onverwachte muzikale samenwerkingen gaat dit orkest over de grenzen heen, waarbij de passie voor het vak, de warmte binnen de band en vooral de grotere dromen duidelijk hoorbaar zijn.

Dreamin’ Release tour:
14/03: Cultuurcentrum Mechelen
20/03: Kaffee Damast
21/03: The Preacher

Tickets info: .
You can pre-order the album here: https://www.qsomebigband.com/nl/winkel/.

Hou de komende weken zeker onze Facebook en Instagram feed.

About LULELA – new video

8th November 2019 by Gabriele di Franco

Belgium, composition, gabriele di franco, interactive, LOD, lulela, Music Theatre, video

Happy to share a new video: ‘About LULELA’.

Here a small pitch to present you LULELA.
Have been working already since a while on this exiciting project, but there are still a few months to go for ultimate the compositional work!
Looking forward to starting performing LULELA!

LULELA, Is an Interactive concert with multiple evolutionary possibilities. more info: https://www.gabrieledifranco.com/lulela co-produced by LOD muziektheater.
Gabriele di Franco: composition, libretto and concept.
video editing by Studio Sciolto

Finalist of JazzCompGraz 2017 with “Aspetta”

1st October 2017 by Gabriele di Franco

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JAZZ COMP GRAZ 2017

Competition for modern Jazz composition in Graz, Austria

I’m very glad and thankful for this great news: I’m one of the finalists of JazzCompGraz 2017 for Big Band Composers!

The jury, composed by Ed Partyka (Chair), Michael Abene, John Hollenbeck and Jörg Achim Keller, have selected 10 finalists from 52 applications coming from all the world:

Cinzia Catania (CH) – “Anatomy of Melancholy”
Gabriele di Franco (IT) – “Aspetta”
Jakob Helling (DE) – “Not Yet”
Tobias Hoffmann (DE) – “Unforseen Fantasy”
Christoph Klenner (DE) – “Meltdown”
Henri Lyysaari (FI) – “Child of Spring”
Ursula Reicher (AT) – “Do You Feel?”
Anna-Lena Schnabel (DE) – “Toy”
Suzan R. Veneman (NL) – “The Start of Something Good”
Luise Volkmann (DE) – “untitled”

I’m proud to be the only Italian in the final.

As a finalist, I’ll have the opportunity to take part in the rehearsals of the KUG JazzOrchester and attend workshops with the Jury members. The winners will be chosen upon the presentation at the final concert (17.11.2017).

The whole finals will also be recorded live and published in the first half of 2018.

jazzcompgraz.com

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