Duo Petrin Ferrari
Ensemble
The concert project Borrowed Fragments was born from the meeting of pianist Umberto Petrin and clarinettist Adalberto Ferrari, two musical personalities who join forces to develop a sound path founded on the idea of transformation and renewal of the language of improvisation.
The artists
Umberto PetrinPianistUmberto Petrin is a leading pianist, composer and poet on the contemporary jazz and experimental music scene. Characterised by a multifaceted training that combines classical rigour with intense activity in improvisation, Petrin has built a career founded on interdisciplinary dialogue between sound, literature and the visual arts. Over the course of his artistic career he has collaborated with many of the most authoritative figures of international jazz and the avant-garde scene, pursuing a highly personal piano exploration centred on timbral continuity, the use of sonic space and the constant reworking of traditional forms. Beyond his strictly musical and recording output, he is distinguished by a deep poetic and theoretical commitment, expressed through the writing of texts, the curation of critical…
Adalberto FerrariMusicianAdalberto Ferrari is a clarinettist, saxophonist, multi-instrumentalist and composer, known as “the wayfarer of music” for his curious and open approach, focused on a crossover language that blends tradition, contemporary music, jazz, classical and ethnic music. Holder of two degrees, in clarinet and in Music Disciplines with a jazz specialisation, he is a professor of clarinet at the “Arrigo Pedrollo” Conservatoire in Vicenza, for which he devised the first-level master’s course in “Woodwind Doubler”. Co-founder of the duo NovoTono, he has recorded several albums acclaimed by critics and ranked at the top of the Musica Jazz TOP TEN, and has also collaborated with Gianluigi Trovesi on the project NRG Bridges. He co-founded the Quartetto Martesana, a reference ensemble for the…
