Andrea Vicari

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Andrea Vicari (born July 16, 1965 in Miami , Florida ) is a British-American jazz pianist , composer and university teacher. Ian Carr described her in the Rough Guide.Jazz as an "extraordinary pianist and great composer."

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Vicari, whose father was a jazz pianist, grew up in Birmingham , then studied at Cardiff University before continuing her postgraduate studies at London's Guildhall School of Music in 1988/89 . At the beginning of the 1990s she led her own bands, in which Julian Argüelles , Stuart Hall and David-Jean Baptiste played, among others, and worked as a freelance musician in London, with guitarist Phil Robson , among others . In 1992 the Arts Council commissioned her to compose a ten-person ensemble; In 1994 she won the Peter Whittingham Award which enabled her to record a debut album, Andrea Vicari's Suburban Gorillas . In the mid-1990s she toured the UK with this band; During this time she also worked with Mornington Lockett , Phillip Bent , Don Weller , Dick Pearce , Tim Whitehead , Tim Garland , the Vortex Foundation Big Band , as well as Art Farmer and Eddie Harris . In 2011 she played with art themes and in the formation Jazz Extempore , with whom she recorded the album Round Trip . She has also composed film music ( Rise of a New Eve , 1994) and taught in schools and colleges; She is currently a professor at Trinity College of Music in London . She also published a piano textbook (Advanced Jazz Piano Book) .

Discographic notes

  • 1995 - Lunar Spell (33Jazz) with Mornington Lockett, Phil Robson
  • 2007 - Tryptych (33Jazz) with Dorian Lockett and Sebastian Rochford
  • 2010 - Mango Tango

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  1. ↑ Ian Carr, Brian Priestley, Digby Fairweather (Eds.): Rough Guide Jazz. ISBN 1-85828-137-7 , p. 663.
personal data
SURNAME Vicari, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British-American jazz pianist, composer and university lecturer
DATE OF BIRTH July 16, 1965
PLACE OF BIRTH Miami , Florida