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GIOVANNA GATTUSO Multi Award Winner (Los Angeles Music Award)
as best Singer & Songwriter and best album of the year
2006 - "JUNGLE E MAREE" (Velvet Bee Records)
which she produced, and composed both lyrics and music.
Giovanna
is a multitalented singer, she has a beautiful operatic
voice, and she can sing lighter music with equal aplomb.
It is rare to find an opera singer who has a feeling for
jazz: Giovanna is one of those singers. SETH RIGGS GIOVANNA GATTUSO ITALIAN VOICE TEACHER, SOPRANO, JAZZ SINGER
AND CHOIR CONDUCTOR. She is
a musician & vocalist with a very sophisticated and
refined style and taste. This is due to her extended experience
both in Europe and in the United States of America; experience
that gives her a chance to experiment in a very natural
way from the opera and the European lyrical music to the
most emotional & difficult jazz compositions. Giovanna
earned a Diploma at the Accademy of the Arts in Italy;
she has perfected her vocal skills, and Gospel
and Jazz styles, at U.C.S.D. in San Diego, while she has advanced her vocal
technique with Maestro SETH RIGGS and Bel Canto with the Maestra AIDA CLARETTO PRESTIA. She
collaborates for recordings and concerts with some of
the top Italian and American jazz musicians. Her eclectic
variety of styles and her unique capacity to adjust her
voice to different formats have given her the possibility
to collaborate with musicians and within projects of various
genres, from classical to classical crossover to jazz. Renowned
Italian vocal coach, Giovanna has developed a unique voice
and singing CROSSOVER technique. It combines cosmopolitan
experience and status (the "Bel Canto" technique
within the Italian secular tradition, the "speech
level", "gospel", "jazz", "soul"
and R&B), along with 12 years experience with pupils
and singers with jazz, pop, rock and classical background
within Orchestra & choral direction. Giovanna
held classes & stage with her personal vocal system
all over Europe & USA (check out her schedule at school
& master class). She is
singing all over Europe & USA for the promotional
tour of her new album CD "JUNGLE
E MAREE", (released April 3,
2004), of which she is responsible for composing both
lyrics and music. Produced
in Italy and released in the States through the Los Angeles
recording label VELVET BEE RECORDS, the
album has been receiving an excellent response as far
as sales as well as critics, especially from the California
audiences. As a matter of fact Giovanna has been invited
by the ITALIAN CONSUL to participate
to the "Settimana Italiana" (the "Italian
Week") in Los Angeles, a music, film and literature
week around the Southern California metropolis. She has
been also invited by the ITALIAN CULTURAL INSTITUTE
at the SALA ROSSELLINI and by the SAN GENNARO
FOUNDATION at the SAN GENNARO FEST at
the Grove to present her album JUNGLE E MAREE
/ Featuring on stage Lou Forestieri,
piano, Sandro Feliciano & Enzo Todesco (NATALIE COLE, ANASTASIA),
drum, Ottavio Bailly (SERGIO MENDEZ, AL JARREAU ),
bass/ She has
participated to the contemporary opera "SONGS
FOR PSYCHE" by Argentinean composer Jorge
Andres Bosso with such interpreters and musicians
as Luisa Prandina, first harp at LA SCALA
THEATRE in Milan. She sang
as Soprano soloist at the JazzOpera "PUCCINI
IN JAZZ" at the Auditorium Lingotto in
Turin (Italy), with the african's drummer of Bruno
Genero, the Orchestra by the Teatro Regio of Torino,
the Jazz trio jazz with Dado Moroni (piano,) Rosario
Bonaccorso (bass), Gianpiero Prina (drum),
the classical dancer Alessandra Barilla and Diego
Borotti (sax & Orchestra Conductor). Collaborations: Sandro Feliciano, Enzo Todesco, Ottavio Bailly,
Lou Forestieri, Massimo Scaglione, Bruno Genero, Tatè
Nsongan (Mao Mao), Giorgio Li Calzi, Alberto Mandarini,
Coro dell'Accademia di Santo Spirito, Orchestra Filarmonica
di Torino e Claudio Desideri, Andrea Jonasson Strelher,
Radio 3, Diego Borotti, Rosario Bonaccorso, Gianpiero
Prina, Dado Moroni, Alfredo De La Fè, Roberto Taufic,
Gilson Da Silveira, Istituto Italiano di cultura
di Los Angeles, Sergio Mielneczienko, Tomoko Sato, Global
Village KPFK, San Gennaro Foundation, Radio KCSN, Hip&Heen,
Ana Devatanjan, Ara Dabandjian, Young Musicians Foundation
Orchestra & John Williams. CHOIR & ORCHESTRA CONDUCTOR: Ten
Choir TEACHING: CROSSOVER
SINGING METHOD
She collaborated
as journalist with the national newspaper IL GIORNALE DEL
PIEMONTE as free-lance, for articles and jazz interwiews
(2000/03). GIOVANNA HAS
PERFORMED AT THE FOLLOWING VENUES:
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