Claudio Filippini

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Born in 1982 in Pescara (Italy), Claudio Filippini graduated very young at the Conservatorio "G.B. Pergolesi" in Fermo. As a student he attended various workshops with such mentors as Kenny Barron, George Cables, Jimmy Owens, Joey Calderazzo, Enrico Pieranunzi, Franco D'Andrea, Otmaro Ruiz, Stefano Bollani, Stefano Battaglia. In recent years he has played in numerous clubs and festivals all over the world and had chance to play with with Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Donny McCaslin, David Binney, Palle Danielsson, Tony Scott, Mike Stern, Noa, Mario Biondi, Giovanni Tommaso, Maria Pia De Vito, Fabrizio Bosso, Max Ionata, Lorenzo Tucci, Battista Lena, Francesco Bearzatti, Simona Molinari. At the age of 17 he won his first scholarship for the Columbia College of Music in Chicago and then those of the “Seminari Senesi di Musica Jazz”(2000) and of the “We Love Jazz” workshop with Kenny Barron (2001). In 2002 he was awarded the 1st prize at the European Competition for piano solo“Yamaha Music Foundation Of Europe” and the following year the “Premio Massimo Urbani” (Jury and Audience). In 2015 he was invited to hold a jazz and harmony piano masterclass at the “Columbia College of Music in Chicago” and to perform a solo piano concert in the Sherwood Auditorium Community at the same institute.