PROJECTS

Marco Marcelletti Trio

Marco Marcelletti Trio is the trio led by the homonymous 23 years old piano player and composer, formed by affirmed italian musicians, whose artistic activity, since many years, is centered around the city of Brussels.
The project proposes original compositions of high lyrism and intensity, as well as moments of improvisation, sometimes collective, with a clear aesthetic idea based on an attentive research of sound, harmonic fineness and strong melodies.
And if the setlist is the main plot, task of the musicians will be to set the ground to surprise, themselves in the first place (them being, in a way, part of the audience too) as well as the audience itself.

Federico Stocchi

Born in Milan, Federico Stocchi moves to Brussels to study at the Koninklijk Conservatorium, where he studies Jazz with Stéphane Galland, John Rocco, Kris Defoort, Diederik Wissels and Christophe Wallemme and Classical music with Korneel Lecompte. After his Bachelor degree moves to Zhuhai (China) for one year as a performer and teacher for the Golden Jazz Institute, having the opportunity to perform with several musicians from the Chinese scene. He performs as a sideman in very different contexts from traditional to more modern and experimental jazz, but also Flamenco and “Chanson Française” in venues like Gent Jazz, Jazz à Liege, Brugge Jazz Festival, Beishan Jazz Festival, Marni Jazz Festival, etc. Between his most recent collaborations the new project from his former teacher and renowned drummer Stéphane Galland “(The mystery of) Kem” (with Ravi Kulur, Bram De Looze, Sylvain Debaisieux and Ibrahim Maalouf as a special guest) and his own projects “The AwkWords” (with Hendrik Lasure and Paul Berne) and “Johni Stokers” (with Daniel Jonkers, Sylvain Debaisieux, Fien Desmet and Leo Engels).

in2017 his band “The AwkWords” was awarded with the First Prize in the Mechelen JazzContest for the best upcoming jazz group and in 2018 he won the “Toots Thielemans Jazz Award” as the most outstanding student of the Conservatory of Brussels (together with Daniel Jonkers).

Gionata Giardina

Born in Bergamo (BG, Italy), in 1987, Gionata Giardina began his musical career studying piano privately, at the age of nine. At the age of fifteen, he enrolled at CDPM of Bergamo, studying drums under the direction of Matteo Milesi. At the age of 20 he began studying with Alfredo Golino and Stefano Bagnoli. From 2010, he attended the Bachelor in drums and jazz percussions at the conservatory of Brescia (IT), under the direction of Corrado Guarino for piano and Francesco D'Auria for drums. The third academic year was spent in the Netherlands in an exchange program with the Conservatorium Maastricht; the study of the instrument was guided by Arnoud Gerritse and Ron Van Stratum. He graduated from conservatory of Brescia in 2016 with full marks (109/110) with a thesis on ear training.

In summer of 2013, he partecipated in the summer seminars of Siena Jazz, where he met Jeff Ballard, Roberto Gatto, Ettore Fioravanti and Ferenc Nemeth.

In 2018, he then moved to Brussels to pursue the Master at Royal Conservatory of Brussels, where he studied with Pieter Bast and Stéphane Galland. He graduated with great distinction (16/20) in June 2020. In 2022 he obtained the AESS (agrégation en musique) at the Royal Conservatory of Brussels, with distinction.

His artistic activity counts numerous collaborations in the fields of jazz, rock and improvised music, and participation in various european jazz festivals.