Massimo Ciolli

Massimo Ciolli, composer, was born in Florence (Italy) in 1958. In his teenage years he resumed his previously interrupted studies, encouraged by lessons of political economy and harmony respectively given by evening school teachers and jazz musicians. He eventually got into contact with the most creative figures on the musical scene. In 1981 he was still playing jazz with his peers in the back of a Florentine craftsman’s workshop. Since then he has performed in many Italian and European jazz clubs. Nevertheless, besides his musical projects he has devoted himself to different jobs to earn his living. Thanks to that multifaceted experience Ciolli has developed his own musical concept. In his compositions Ciolli is seeking rigorous pantonal structures, uncompromising melodic abstractions and spontaneous polyrhythmic stratifications.

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