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Jazz Opening Evenings on Campus 2007

http://events.um.edu.mt/eveningsoncampus/

Evenings on Campus will be launched in style this year with a Jazz night on Saturday 30th June at 8.30pm. The festival, which is in its 15th edition, will be held on Campus at Atriju Vassalli.

Marc Galea Elektric Band is opening with a 45 minute performance. Marc’s EP & My Journey’ is being launched on the night.

Marc is a session guitarist, RGT Registered Tutor, and Principal at the Euro Institute of Music in Hamrun. Besides teaching, he’s involved in recording and playing in several musicals and concerts.

The band is made up of Marc’s closest friends who had always ended up jamming on occasions when they got together. However, they just made their name official now! The communication and optimistic vibe when they play is evident in the music. They will be playing Marc’s own compositions and arrangements of the bands’ influences, such Pat Matheny, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, etc.

Luigi Tessarollo will open the second part of the concert in a Guitar Duo. Luigi Tessarollo is a prominent figure in the Italian jazz scene. LUIGI TESSAROLLO, a guitarist and composer from Turin, has performed in U.S.A. (New York and Boston), in Europe (Festival International de Liege, Gouvy Festival, Comblain La Tour – Belgium, Grenoble Jazz Festival, Switzerland National Radio, Italian RAI, Ajaccio Jazz…) and in the most important Italian Jazz Festivals (Umbria Jazz, JVC Festival, Jazz & Image in Rome, Festival Internazionale di Cagliari, Verona Jazz Festival, EuroJazzFestival d’Ivrea, Jazz In’It in Vignola, Clusone Jazz, Bordighera Jazz & Blues…).

Marc Galea and Luigi Tessarollo will play several of Luigi’s compositions and other jazz standard numbers.

Jimi Savage Band will close the concert with its unique style. Jimi has played with many celebrity guitarists like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Yngwie Malmsteen and others. He was awarded the RGT Guitar Tutor of the Year in 2005 and was a leading contributor to Total Guitar magazine.

Mr Savage has travelled throughout the world, performing in gigs, master class seminars, workshops and master sessions as a musician/guitarist, and performing at many guitar shows.

After a sold out concert with Marc Galea in Malta last February, Jimi Savage is now performing with his band playing fusion and funk numbers.

After the 3 performances there is going to be a jamming session of 15 minutes by the 3 guitarists.

Jazz guitarists to open Evenings On Campus

Evenings on Campus’s 15th edition will be launched in style this year with a jazz night next Saturday at 8.30 p.m. at the festival venue – the University of Malta campus: Atriju Vassalli.

Marc Galea Elektric Band will open the concert with a 45-minute performance.

Galea is a session guitarist, RGT registered tutor, and principal at the Euro Institute of Music in Hamrun, besides teaching, recording and playing in several musicals and concerts.

The band is made up of his closest friends, who ended up jamming on occasions when they got together. They have just decided on the group’s name and have now made it official!

The music that they play reflects the evident communication and optimistic vibe between the group’s members. They will be playing both Galea’s own compositions as well as songs of Pat Matheny, Miles Davis and Herbie Hancock, who are among the band’s influences.

The band’s EP My Journey will also be launched on the night.

The concert will continue with a guitar duo between Marc Galea and Luigi Tessarollo, a prominent figure in the Italian jazz scene, guitarist and composer from Turin, who will play several of Luigi’s compositions and other jazz standard numbers.

Tessarollo has performed in the US (New York and Boston), Europe (Festival International de Liege, Gouvy Festival, Comblain la Tour, Belgium, Grenoble Jazz Festival, Swiss national radio, Italian RAI, Ajaccio Jazz, among others) and in the most important Italian jazz festivals (Umbria Jazz, JVC Festival, Jazz and Image in Rome, Festival Internazionale di Cagliari, Verona Jazz Festival, Euro Jazz Festival d’Ivrea, Jazz In’It in Vignola, Clusone Jazz, Bordighera Jazz and Blues among others).

The Jimi Savage Band will close the concert with their unique style of fusion and funk numbers just like it did at a previously sold-out concert in Malta last February with Marc Galea.

Savage has traveled throughout the world, performing in gigs, master class seminars, workshops and master sessions as a musician/guitarist and performing at many guitar shows.

He has played with many celebrity guitarists like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen.

He was awarded the RGT Guitar Tutor of the Year in 2005 and was a leading contributor to Total Guitar magazine.

The three guitarists will conduct a joint 15-minute jamming session at the end of the concert.

World-renowned guitarists to hold master class guitar sessions in Malta

World-renowned guitarists to hold master class guitar sessions in Malta  by Luciano Borg

World-renowned guitarists Jimi Savage and Luigi Tessarollo will be holding guitar master class sessions at the Euro Institute of Music and Arts, Hamrun.

Mr Savage has played with many celebrity guitarists like Steve Vai, Joe Satriani and Yngwie Malmsteen among others. He was awarded the RGT Guitar Tutor of the Year in 2005 and was a leading contributor to Total Guitar magazine. Mr Savage has travelled throughout the world, performing in gigs, master class seminars, workshops and master sessions as a musician/ guitarist and performing at many guitar shows.<

Mr Tessarolo is a prominent figure in the Italian jazz scene, guitarist and composer from Turin. He has performed in the US (New York and Boston), in Europe (Festival International de Liege, Gouvy Festival, Comblain La Tour – Belgium, Grenoble Jazz Festival, Switzerland National Radio, Italian RAI, Ajaccio Jazz) and in the most important Italian Jazz Festivals (Umbria Jazz, JVC Festival, Jazz &amp; Image in Rome, Festival Internazionale di Cagliari, Verona Jazz Festival, EuroJazzFestival d’Ivrea, Jazz In’It in Vignola, Clusone Jazz, Bordighera Jazz &amp; Blues, etc.

He has also collaborated, often in permanent projects, with some of the most prominent Italian jazz musicians and with numerous foreign artistes including Lee Konitz, Slide Hampton, George Garzone, Barry Harrys, Larry Schnider, Bob Gullotti, Hal Stein, Bob Porcelli, Douglas Yates and Matt Wilson.

Euro Institute director Mark Galea said that the sessions would give local guitarists an incredible opportunity to learn from such experienced guitarists. The master classes will cater for both professionals and beginners. “Being able to watch and listen to technique explanations from such first-class musicians is an opportunity that no guitar lover should miss”, he said.

Last February, Mr Savage performed in Malta with Mr Galea to a packed audience at St James Cavalier, Valletta. During the two-and-a-half session, Mr Savage and Mr Galea entranced those present with a jamming session that included numbers by Jimi Hendrix, Herbie Hancock, Miles Davis, and Stevie Wonder among others.

For more information regarding the guitar sessions call the Euro Institute of Music and Arts on telephone number 2122-6555.

Summer Master Classes

Beginners Group:

Lesson 1: 29 June – 10am to 11am – Pentatonic Ideas – Jimi Savage

Lesson 2: 29 June – 11am to Noon – Funk and Latin – Luigi Tessarollo

Lesson 3: 30 June – 10am to 11.30am – Changing Keys – Jimi Savage

 

Intermediate Group:

Lesson 1: 29 June: 10am to 11am – Analysing Jazz Standard – Luigi Tessarollo

Lesson 2: 29 June – 11am to 12pm – Modal Arpeggios – Jimi Savage

Lesson 3: 30 June – 10am to 11.30am – II-V-I progressions and soloing – Luigi Tessarollo