Marco Marconi featuring Emma Rawicz
“It isn’t often you discover a performer whose creative ability takes your breath away in the first 30 seconds of hearing their music... Marco is a breath of fresh air for…Jazz fans everywhere”
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A native Italian from Umbria, Marco Marconi initially studied classical piano before moving on to study Jazz at the Music Conservatory of Perugia. After establishing himself as one of Italy's leading jazz pianists, his subsequent highly successful appearances at the Cheltenham Jazz Festival in 2009 and the Lancaster Music Festival in 2011 prompted his decision to move to the UK permanently in 2012. Working primarily with his own trio, Marco was signed to the iconic UK label 33Jazz, which released three albums, "Nordik" (2016), "Trialogue" (2018) & "New Roads" (2019), all to critical acclaim. "New Roads" featured one of Italy's best-known saxophonists, the multi-Award-winning Max Ionata, and tonight Marco brings in his new quartet featuring rising star Emma Rawicz-sax. Voted Jazz Newcomer of the Year in the 2022 Parliamentary Jazz Awards and nominated in the "Instrumentalist of the Year' category in the 2022 Jazz FM Awards, Emma is a talent of notable substance. Combining Marco's classical background and jazz sensibilities with Emma’s fresh, fluent, creative playing this promises to be quite special.
"It isn’t often you discover a performer whose creative ability takes your breath away in the first 30 seconds of hearing their music... Marco is a breath of fresh air for…Jazz fans everywhere" JazzBitesRadio.com; "An inspirational feast of stylish...jazz" Stratford Jazz; "a remarkable musician" Cheltenham Jazz Festival; “Rawicz…a force to be reckoned with” Jazzwise