Guido Ponzini
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Guido Ponzini is a young Italian stick-bass player.
He works playing his solo compositions and with flute master Guo Yue
.
Guido plays also in Shan Qi and with bajan virtuoso Vladimir Denissenkov and as guest with Adel Salameh and Ayub Ogada
. He recorded his first solo cd end 2005, called “Twilight Town” including compositions by him and Giovanni Amighetti.
Cd came out 20 October 2006 released by German company Ozella Music.
Guido Ponzini was born on April 21, 1985 in Manerbio, Italy. At the age of sixteen he started the study of electric bass, graduating at CPM in Milano.
Since 2002 he studied with renowned producer Giovanni Amighetti
composition basics in world and contemporary music.
Actually he is attending the Viola da Gamba course by Master Roberto Gini at the conservatory A. Boito in Parma
, Italy; he is studying also "Contemporary and experimental composition" with Master Luca Tessadrelli.
In 2005 he started to play Chapman Stick
, developing a very personal and variegate approach, He also plays silicon bass
, a short-scale fretless electric bass with silicon strings.
As bass and stick player he worked with many world music artists like Ayub Ogada, Adel Salameh, Naziha Azzouz and Vladimir Denissenkov, performing in importants events and festivals
He is now working on his solo project and in Shan Qi with Guo Yue and Giovanni Amighetti developing live performances in which the traditional instruments are merged with new technologies like the NDS
software Electroplankton
created by Toshio Iwai.
"Twilight Town: a musical journey through memories of an imaginary world" is his solo debut album in which he presents original compositions written by him and G. Amighetti for stick, silicon and electric bass, featuring Guo Yue
and Italian singer Luisa Cottifogli as special guests.
He works playing his solo compositions and with flute master Guo Yue
Guo Yue (musician)
Guo Yue is a renowned virtuoso of the dizi and bawu . He was born in Beijing, China and as a young boy experienced the Cultural Revolution. In 1982 Yue left China and, with the help of his third sister Yan who was living in England, he studied the silver flute at the Guildhall School of Music...
.
Guido plays also in Shan Qi and with bajan virtuoso Vladimir Denissenkov and as guest with Adel Salameh and Ayub Ogada
Ayub Ogada
Ayub Ogada is a musician from Kenya. Ogada was born in Mombasa and is one of the Luo people of Western Kenya.He received his first exposure to Western culture early on. When he was six, his parents , toured the college circuit in the U.S...
. He recorded his first solo cd end 2005, called “Twilight Town” including compositions by him and Giovanni Amighetti.
Cd came out 20 October 2006 released by German company Ozella Music.
Guido Ponzini was born on April 21, 1985 in Manerbio, Italy. At the age of sixteen he started the study of electric bass, graduating at CPM in Milano.
Since 2002 he studied with renowned producer Giovanni Amighetti
Giovanni Amighetti
Giovanni Amighetti is a contemporary Italian musician.He studied classical piano and began playing with avantgarde band Fondamenta in late eighties...
composition basics in world and contemporary music.
Actually he is attending the Viola da Gamba course by Master Roberto Gini at the conservatory A. Boito in Parma
Parma
Parma is a city in the Italian region of Emilia-Romagna famous for its ham, its cheese, its architecture and the fine countryside around it. This is the home of the University of Parma, one of the oldest universities in the world....
, Italy; he is studying also "Contemporary and experimental composition" with Master Luca Tessadrelli.
In 2005 he started to play Chapman Stick
Chapman Stick
The Chapman Stick is an electric musical instrument devised by Emmett Chapman in the early 1970s. A member of the guitar family, the Chapman Stick usually has ten or twelve individually tuned strings and has been used on music recordings to play bass lines, melody lines, chords or textures...
, developing a very personal and variegate approach, He also plays silicon bass
Ashbory bass
The Ashbory bass, designed by Alun Ashworth-Jones and Nigel Thornbory, is an 18-inch scale fretless electric bass developed in 1985. This scale is just over half of the 34-inch scale of an ordinary bass guitar...
, a short-scale fretless electric bass with silicon strings.
As bass and stick player he worked with many world music artists like Ayub Ogada, Adel Salameh, Naziha Azzouz and Vladimir Denissenkov, performing in importants events and festivals
He is now working on his solo project and in Shan Qi with Guo Yue and Giovanni Amighetti developing live performances in which the traditional instruments are merged with new technologies like the NDS
Nintendo DS
The is a portable game console produced by Nintendo, first released on November 21, 2004. A distinctive feature of the system is the presence of two separate LCD screens, the lower of which is a touchscreen, encompassed within a clamshell design, similar to the Game Boy Advance SP...
software Electroplankton
Electroplankton
Electroplankton is an interactive music video game developed by Toshio Iwai and published by Nintendo for the Nintendo DS handheld video game console. It was first released in Japan, and was later released in North America and Europe. This game allows the player to interact with animated plankton...
created by Toshio Iwai.
"Twilight Town: a musical journey through memories of an imaginary world" is his solo debut album in which he presents original compositions written by him and G. Amighetti for stick, silicon and electric bass, featuring Guo Yue
Guo Yue (musician)
Guo Yue is a renowned virtuoso of the dizi and bawu . He was born in Beijing, China and as a young boy experienced the Cultural Revolution. In 1982 Yue left China and, with the help of his third sister Yan who was living in England, he studied the silver flute at the Guildhall School of Music...
and Italian singer Luisa Cottifogli as special guests.