Riccardo Scivales
keyboards, composition and lyrics
www.riccardoscivales.com
Riccardo Scivales
keyboards, composition and lyrics
www.riccardoscivales.com
KeySpecial at Festival Rock progressive 2017
Riccardo Scivales is the founding keyboardist and composer of the band QUANAH PARKER, with whom he published the CDs “Quanah!”, “Suite degli Animali Fantastici”, “A Big Francesco” and “Nel Castello delle Fate”, with enthusiastic reviews and a frequent radio programming in Italy, USA, Canada and Brazil. He is also pianist of the duos Magico Carillon (with Meghi Moschino) and Quiet Prog Nights (with Stefano Marchiori), and of his Latin ensemble Mi Ritmo. As a pianist, he has collaborated on many theatrical performances, worked at the Gran Caffè Chioggia in Piazza San Marco in Venice, and played as a Guest Soloist at the jazz concert “L’improvvisazione è improvvisata?” (Milano, Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber, 2022).
He is the author of about 30 jazz and Latin piano books published in the USA, UK and Italy, including the best sellers “Harlem Stride Piano Solos”, “Jazz Piano: The Left Hand”, “Learn To Play Latin Piano” and “ The Right Hand According To Tatum” (all for Ekay Music). With AA.VV., he co-authored the books “Gershwin” (EDT), “Piano Stylings of the Great Standards Voll. 3-6”, “Jazz Piano Pieces To Grow On”, “500 Piano Intros for the Great Standards” (Ekay Music/Steinway & Sons), etc.
Riccardo Scivales is the founding keyboardist and composer of the band QUANAH PARKER, with whom he published the CDs “Quanah!”, “Suite degli Animali Fantastici”, “A Big Francesco” and “Nel Castello delle Fate”, with enthusiastic reviews and a frequent radio programming in Italy, USA, Canada and Brazil. He is also pianist of the duos Magico Carillon (with Meghi Moschino) and Quiet Prog Nights (with Stefano Marchiori), and of his Latin ensemble Mi Ritmo. As a pianist, he has collaborated on many theatrical performances, worked at the Gran Caffè Chioggia in Piazza San Marco in Venice, and played as a Guest Soloist at the jazz concert “L’improvvisazione è improvvisata?” (Milano, Teatro Lirico Giorgio Gaber, 2022).
He is the author of about 30 jazz and Latin piano books published in the USA, UK and Italy, including the best sellers “Harlem Stride Piano Solos”, “Jazz Piano: The Left Hand”, “Learn To Play Latin Piano” and “ The Right Hand According To Tatum” (all for Ekay Music). With AA.VV., he co-authored the books “Gershwin” (EDT), “Piano Stylings of the Great Standards Voll. 3-6”, “Jazz Piano Pieces To Grow On”, “500 Piano Intros for the Great Standards” (Ekay Music/Steinway & Sons), etc.
With his Scivales Music self-publishing house he reprints and distributes his previous books for Ekay Music, Kjos Music and Soliloquy Music, and has published new books such as “Storie di Vecchi Pianisti Jazz… e di come funzionava la loro musica”, “Christmas Piano Joy, Vol.1” and “Play…LATIN PIANO Like A Pro!”.
With the famous jazz player Enrico Intra, he co-authored the books "L’improvvisazione è improvvisata?" (m&p/M'O) and "Jazz Piano Repertoire" (Scivales Music). With Scivales Music he also published the books “THE BLUES PIANO” (with Giannantonio Mutto) and “Easing Into Stride” (with Ed Shanaphy).
About a hundred of his compositions, transcriptions, piano arrangements and Jazz, Latin and Prog articles have been published in the prestigious US magazines "The Piano Stylist & Jazz Workshop", "Keyboard Classics", "Piano Today" and "Sheet Music Magazine". He is the author of numerous articles and monographs for the magazines “Blu Jazz”, “Jazz”, “Musica Jazz” and “Il Sismografo”, and of essays on Gershwin, Ellington and ragtime, stride, jazz and Latin pianism published in important musicological magazines such as “Musica Oggi”, “Il Sismografo”, etc.
Various of his transcriptions or piano arrangements have been performed and/or recorded by pianists such as Marco Fumo, Massimiliano Damerini, Alan Feinberg, Meral Guneyman, Donna Coleman, Bill Edwards, Francesco Rossetti, etc. Various of his compositions have been performed by the ensembles Quarteto Nuevo (USA), duo “Marguerite Faulds/Diane Koenig” (USA), duo “Giannantonio Mutto/Leonardo Sapere”, duo “Giannantonio Mutto/Stefano Conzatti”, “I Musici di Parma”, “Quintetto Pianoforte e Archi”, Alliance Band, etc.
Graduated with flying colours in Literature with a musicological thesis on the Harlem Stride Piano style, in 1999-2009 he was a professor of Jazz History and Afro-Latin American Music at the University of Venice. At the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto, he was a teacher of Improvisation and Ragtime Composition of the "Specialization Course in African-American Piano Literature" directed by Maestro Marco Fumo, with whom he often collaborated in seminars, masterclasses and introductions to concerts on African-American pianism. Official translator of the first 34 Italian volumes of the Bastien piano method books, he teaches Modern Piano at various music schools.
Author of around three hundred radio programs on the history of jazz for RAI-RadioTre, he has been a speaker at international conferences on jazz and the music of Ellington, Gershwin and Monk.
Together with Giovanni Pirrotta, he is the organizer of the Festival Rock Progressive, whose first four editions took place with great success in 2016-2019 in San Donà di Piave (Venice).
With his Scivales Music self-publishing house he reprints and distributes his previous books for Ekay Music, Kjos Music and Soliloquy Music, and has published new books such as “Storie di Vecchi Pianisti Jazz… e di come funzionava la loro musica”, “Christmas Piano Joy, Vol.1” and “Play…LATIN PIANO Like A Pro!”.
With the famous jazz player Enrico Intra, he co-authored the books "L’improvvisazione è improvvisata?" (m&p/M'O) and "Jazz Piano Repertoire" (Scivales Music). With Scivales Music he also published the books “THE BLUES PIANO” (with Giannantonio Mutto) and “Easing Into Stride” (with Ed Shanaphy).
About a hundred of his compositions, transcriptions, piano arrangements and Jazz, Latin and Prog articles have been published in the prestigious US magazines "The Piano Stylist & Jazz Workshop", "Keyboard Classics", "Piano Today" and "Sheet Music Magazine". He is the author of numerous articles and monographs for the magazines “Blu Jazz”, “Jazz”, “Musica Jazz” and “Il Sismografo”, and of essays on Gershwin, Ellington and ragtime, stride, jazz and Latin pianism published in important musicological magazines such as “Musica Oggi”, “Il Sismografo”, etc.
Various of his transcriptions or piano arrangements have been performed and/or recorded by pianists such as Marco Fumo, Massimiliano Damerini, Alan Feinberg, Meral Guneyman, Donna Coleman, Bill Edwards, Francesco Rossetti, etc. Various of his compositions have been performed by the ensembles Quarteto Nuevo (USA), duo “Marguerite Faulds/Diane Koenig” (USA), duo “Giannantonio Mutto/Leonardo Sapere”, duo “Giannantonio Mutto/Stefano Conzatti”, “I Musici di Parma”, “Quintetto Pianoforte e Archi”, Alliance Band, etc.
Graduated with flying colours in Literature with a musicological thesis on the Harlem Stride Piano style, in 1999-2009 he was a professor of Jazz History and Afro-Latin American Music at the University of Venice. At the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto, he was a teacher of Improvisation and Ragtime Composition of the "Specialization Course in African-American Piano Literature" directed by Maestro Marco Fumo, with whom he often collaborated in seminars, masterclasses and introductions to concerts on African-American pianism. Official translator of the first 34 Italian volumes of the Bastien piano method books, he teaches Modern Piano at various music schools.
Author of around three hundred radio programs on the history of jazz for RAI-RadioTre, he has been a speaker at international conferences on jazz and the music of Ellington, Gershwin and Monk.
Together with Giovanni Pirrotta, he is the organizer of the Festival Rock Progressive, whose first four editions took place with great success in 2016-2019 in San Donà di Piave (Venice).
