Different Lands

Marco Conti

Marco Conti - saxophones, flute and clarinet. Marco Conti was born in Rome in 1956. He plays saxophones, flute and clarinet. He begin his musical studies at the musical conservatory of Frosinone "Licinio Refice" under the teaching of Baldo Maestri.

He is active as a solist performer in a lot of musical clubs and worked as a session man for Recordings, Cinema and Television.

During his artistic charrier, Marco performed in many Jazz festivals. The most important are:
 Umbria Jazz 1988
 Ravenna Jazz FGestival 1989
 Pisa New Wave 1989
 Roma Jazz fsetival 1992 and 1996

He worked with many Jazz musicians. Among them we can mention: Gary Burtz, Geaorge Garzone, Donals Harison, Alfredo De la Fe', Tony Scott, Massimo Urbani, Enrico Rava, Roberto Gatto, Antonello Salis, Danilo REa, Maurizio Giammarco, Horatio Hernandez.

Marco was also in the organic of a lot of Jazz big bands and ochestras, like: Alberto Corvini Big Band, Bruno Biriaco Big Band, Woody Show Memorial Band, Orchestra da ballo della scuola di musica di Testaccio, Mario Raja Big Band, Big Brightly Orchestra, Tommaso Vittorini's Eliseo Big Band and Trombe Rosse of Massimo Nunzi.

He is now distributing his first solo recording, titled Triotherapy, as a composer and soloist performer. This CD is an experimental collection of improvised compositions, based on different loops and moods.

triotherapy small.gif (16633 bytes) You can listen to a couple of short audio clips taken from Triotherapy by clicking on the loudspeaker icons and by downloading the MP3 files.  If you like the examples you can buy the CD by contacting Different Lands.
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From 1998 Marco collaborates with Fabio Armani and Alessandro D'Aloia at the development of the Terre Differenti world fusion project.

Discography:
Grosso modo P. E. Marrocco Virgin records
Schegge Trombe Rosse RTI Music
Triotherapy Marco Conti Cafè Voltaire
Terre Differenti Terre Differenti Different Lands 071
Pentalogos Pentalogos Different Lands 074
Nicht Mer fur Orhen Pentalogos Different Lands 075
Terre Differenti II TERRE DIFFERENTI Different Lands - work in progress
Theatre:
Nostra Dea Teatro di Roma Massimo Missiroli 1992
Arcobaleno Teatro dell'Arte Gino Landi 1994
Irma la dolce Teatro stabile di Trieste Antonio Calenda 1997
Music tours:
Donatella Rettore 1980-81-82  
Fred Bongusto 1989-90  
Marina Rei 1995-96-97  
Teaching:
Saint Louis Music School
SPMT - Scuola popolare di musica Testaccio
Lab 2
U.M: (Università della Musica)