JUNGLE e MAREE by Giovanna Gattuso

Giovanna earned her diploma at the Academy of the Arts in Italy; she has perfected her vocal skills, Gospel and Jazz styles, with KEN ANDERSON at U.C.S.D. in San Diego, while she has advanced her vocal technique with Maestro SETH RIGGS and Bel Canto with the Maestra AIDA CLARETTO PRESTIA. She collaborates for recordings and concerts with some of the top Italian and American jazz musicians. Her eclectic variety of styles and her unique capacity to adjust her voice to different formats have given her the possibility to collaborate with musicians and within projects of various genres, from classical to classical crossover to jazz.

Renowned Italian vocal coach, Giovanna has developed a unique voice and singing CROSSOVER technique and she wrote the voice book CROSSOVER SINGING METHOD/METODO DI CANTO CROSSOVER; it combines cosmopolitan experience and status (the “Bel Canto” technique within the Italian secular tradition, the “speech level”, “gospel”, “jazz”, “soul” and R&B), along with 12 years experience with pupils and singers with jazz, pop, rock and classical background within orchestra & choral direction.

Giovanna holds classes & seminars with her personal vocal system all over Europe & USA (www.giovannagattuso.com school & master class).

She performs all over Europe & the USA for the promotional tour of her new CD "JUNGLE E MAREE", (released April 3, 2004), which she composed both lyrics and music.

Produced in Italy and released in the US through the Los Angeles record label VELVET BEE RECORDS, the album has been receiving an excellent response as far as sales as well as critics, especially from the California audiences. As a matter of fact Giovanna has been invited by the ITALIAN CONSUL to participate to the "Settimana Italiana" (the "Italian Week") in Los Angeles, a music, film and literature week around the Southern California metropolis.

She has also been invited by the ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE at the SALA ROSSELLINI and by the SAN GENNARO FOUNDATION at the SAN GENNARO FEST at the Grove to present her album JUNGLE E MAREE / Featuring on stage Lou Forestieri, piano, Sandro Feliciano & Enzo Todesco, drum and Ottavio Bailly, bass.

She has participated in the contemporary opera "SONGS FOR PSYCHE" by Argentinean composer Jorge Andres Bosso with such interpreters and musicians as Luisa Prandina, first harp at LA SCALA THEATRE in Milan.

She sang as Soprano soloist at the JazzOpera “PUCCINI IN JAZZ” at the Auditorium Lingotto in Turin (Italy), with the African drummers of Bruno Genero, the Orchestra by the Teatro Regio of Torino, the jazz trio with Dado Moroni (piano,) Rosario Bonaccorso (bass), Gianpiero Prina (drum), the classical dancer Alessandra Barilla and Diego Borotti (sax & Orchestra Conductor).

Collaborations: Sandro Feliciano, Enzo Todesco, Ottavio Bailly, Lou Forestieri, Massimo Scaglione, Bruno Genero, Tatè Nsongan (Mao Mao), Giorgio Li Calzi, Alberto Mandarini, Coro dell'Accademia di Santo Spirito, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino e Claudio Desideri, Andrea Jonasson Strelher, Radio 3, Diego Borotti, Rosario Bonaccorso, Gianpiero Prina, Dado Moroni, Alfredo De La Fè, Roberto Taufic, Jorge Andrei Bosso, Gilson Da Silveira, Istituto Italiano di cultura di Los Angeles, Sergio Mielneczienko, Tomoko Sato, Global Village KPFK, San Gennaro Foundation, Radio KCSN, Hip&Heen, Ana Devatanjan, Ara Dabandjian, Young Musicians Foundation Orchestra & John Williams

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