Filippo Orefice

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• TELL NO LIES
  Anasyrma
• TELL NO LIES
  Hide Nothing
• FILIPPO OREFICE
  Kalaima

After a few years of piano studies, Filippo Orefice discovers jazz and Afro-American music hearing live Tony Scott. Starts to play saxophone and clarinet at the age of 12 with his first teacher Daniele D’Agaro. Continues his music studies in KUG Graz with Don Menza, Renato Chicco, and Karlheinz Miklin, getting a Bachelor degree in Jazz saxophone in 2009. In 2019 he attends a Master Study degree in “Film Scoring and composition” (Conservatorio di Rovigo).

Workshops
Ohad Talmor, Adam Nusbaum, Jerry Bergonzi, John Hollenbeck, Dave Liebman, Franco D’Andrea, Bob Brookmeyer, Daniele Furlati among others

Awards
First Prize “Best ensemble” with Collective White (M. Cisilino, A. Mansutti, S. Serafini) – I Concorso internazionale di musica jazz del Conservatorio S. Cecilia”, Roma, 2011
First Prize “Best saxophone player” – 8th International Competition of Rising Jazz Performers, Rostov, (Russia), 2012
First prize “Best soloist” – Vittoria Rotary Jazz Award, Vittoria (Italy), 2016
First prize as composer for “Best movie soundtrack”, Cinema Ritrovato Festival, Bologna”, 2018

Discography
Baobab Ensemble “Uzubuzu”, Freecommusic 2007
U.T. Gandhi Fearless Five: “Travellers”, Artesuono 2008
Gianna Cerchier and Power Play “My soul is alive”, 2010
De Mattia-Cesselli Concert Jazz Band “Teatro Arrigoni”, Artesuono 2013
Artisti vari: “Jazz in Friuli Venezia Giulia vol.2”, Artesuono 2014
Trio Benessere: “Trio Benessere” Palomar records, 2015
Malkuth: “Malkuth”, Rudi Records, 2015
Tower Jazz composers Orchestra, Over Studio records, 2019
Mirko Cisilino, “Effetto Carsico”, Auand Records 2019
Tell No Lies, “Anasyrma”, Aut Records/Fonterossa Records 2020

Collaborations
Sandro Gibellini, Don Menza, Stjepko Gut, Aida Talliente, Nevio Zaninotto, Alfonso Deidda, Marc Abrams, Michele Montolli, Federico De Vittor, Luigi Vitale, Bajram Istrefi, Sam Kulik, Zlatko Caucig, Stefano Senni, Marko Crncec, Chris Jennings, Pierre Allain Tocanier, Andjeliko Stupar, Milan Nikolic, Vladimir Kostadinovic, Giorgio Pacorig, Enrico Crivellaro, Mellow Moods, Leroy Emanuel, Rosa Brunello, Ugo Alunni, Piero Bittolo Bon, Alfonso Santimone, Vitaliano Trevisan, Fabrizio Puglisi, Camilla Battaglia, Nicola Guazzaloca, Luca Bernard, Andrea Grillini, Edoardo Marraffa.

Picture credits: Iztok Zupan