The JAZZ.FM91 Italian Piano Series is proud to feature Dino Rubino, whose dedication to both the piano and trumpet has brought him numerous awards.
Dino Rubino born in Catania in 1980. He started to study piano at eleven in the conservatory “Bellini” of Catania but three years later, after a concert of Tom Harrell, he left it for the trumpet. In 1995 he attended the seminars of Siena Jazz, getting a scholarship for the following year. In 1998 he won the Massimo Urbani prize as the best emerging national talent and after that he started to play in some important situation. Furio Di Castri call him in the project “Giovani artisti d’Europa” in which he played in Turin, Sarajevo, Israel, Stockholm. At the same time he resumed the piano study and he graduated in 2009. After that he started the jazz specialization, completed in 2012. From 2011 he join the “Tuk Music” of Paolo Fresu. In July 2014 he was guest of the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris for a monthly residency in “Les promesses de l’Art”. From that moment he starts to work with Italian musicians who live for years in Paris including Aldo Romano and Riccardo Del Fra. He currently lives in Paris. He’s active with the solo “Roaming Heart” and leader of “On Air Trio”, with Paolino Dalla Porta ed Enzo Zirilli, and “Kairòs” quartet with Giuseppe Mirabella, Riccardo Fioravanti, Adam Nussbaum. He recorded four discs as a leader: “ Mi sono innamorato di Te” (Venus), “Zenzi”, “Kairòs” and “Roaming Heart” (Tùk Music) He played in a lot of festivals and location as: Canarias Jazz, Umbria Jazz, Roma, London, Santiago Jazz EU, Marciac Jazz Festival, Shangai Italian Expo, Portogallo Loulè Jazz Festival, MITO jazz Festival, Umbria Jazz Balkanic Windows, Skopie Jazz Festival, Mexico City, Caracas, Colombia, Rochester, Kiev, Toronto, Jakarta, Paris, Lima.
Tickets: $40 – Click here to buy tickets.
Times: 7:00-8:00 p.m. AND 9:30-10:30 p.m.
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