Collection: Giovanni Di Domenico

Giovanni Di Domenico, pianist, was born in Rome on the 20th July 1977. Following his father’s consecutive assignments as a civil engineer he actually lived out his first decade in Africa – until he was five in Libya, from then until his eight anniversary in the Cameroons and until ten in Algeria. Musically self-taught until the age of 24, when he finally enrolled in Royal Conservatory in Den Haag, Holland (Koninklijke Conservatorium, 2001-2006) – majoring in ‘jazz piano’. He aspired to develop an an encyclopedic technique, with rhythm, harmony and tone informed by non-western traditions yet equally sensitive to Debussy’s “Préludes”, Luciano Berio’s “Sequenzas”, to the ‘ambi-ideation’ heard in Borah Bergman’s Soul Note recordings, Cecil Taylor’s polissemic density, Paul Bley’s bruised transparency and of course, the most radical manifestations stemming from the underworld of pop music, invariably tied together by his own original praxis. He currently lives in Brussels.