Gianni Lenoci

Gianni Lenoci (born June 6, 1963 in Monopoli ; † September 30, 2019 ) was an Italian pianist who worked in the fields of modern jazz as well as improvisation music and new music .

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Lenoci first completed a classical piano course at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome, and then studied electronic music at the Bari Conservatory ; He also studied jazz piano with Mal Waldron and Paul Bley and composition with Giacomo Manzoni .

Lenoci was active as an interpreter of new music: his repertoire ranges from Erik Satie , Federico Mompou and Arnold Schönberg to Morton Feldman and John Cage . In the field of jazz he has performed both solo and with his own trios (first with Augusto Mancinelli and Roberto Gatto , then with Bruno Tommaso and Antonio Di Lorenzo, most recently with Kent Carter and Bill Elgart ), with which recordings have also been released. He has also played with a variety of jazz and improvisation musicians, including Massimo Urbani , Steve Lacy , Steve Grossman , Harold Land , Bob Mover , Enrico Rava , Glenn Ferris , Eugenio Colombo , Don Moye , Han Bennink , Antonello Salis , David Gross , Stefan Heckel , Paul Lovens , Sakis Papadimitriou / Georgia Sylleou, Jean-Jacques Avenel , John Betsch and Beñat Achiary . He also recorded albums with Joëlle Léandre , Carlo Actis Dato , Markus Stockhausen , Steve Potts , Taylor Ho Bynum and William Parker . He also directed a Hocus Pocus Improvisers Orchestra .

Lennoci has won numerous international awards as an interpreter.

Lenoci was also the artistic director of Il Tempo Sospeso , a festival of improvised music in Santo Stefano di Sessanio . Allegedly he wrote a Manuale del jazzista imperfetto . Since 1990 he has been teaching at the Nino Rota Conservatory in his hometown.

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SURNAME	Lenoci, Gianni
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Italian pianist
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH	Monopoli
DATE OF DEATH	September 30, 2019