Alceste Ayroldi, born in 1964, graduated in Law cum laude, is a senior structured professor at the Ministry of Education, University and Research, essayist, music critic, musicologist, veejay.
He has been working on music professionally since 1982. He studied classical guitar for five years, then went on drums. In the 1980s he was the vocalist of the heavy metal group Helgard. Also in the eighties-nineties he was animator, deejay, P.R. in some discos of the Adriatic coast (Byblos, Riccione; Cocoricò, Riccione; Jubilèe, Senigallia) and organizer of Life 2 in Triggiano (Ba) and Ku-Shin-Kai in Bitritto (Ba), also as head of communication. He worked as a speaker and consultant for the program “Jazz, Fusion and Surroundings” – Radio Amiliazione up to the early 2000s and, in the 1980s, with the Bari radio station Radio Studio N2, dealing with New Wave and Avant-Rock.
He is Professor of Rights within the Performing Arts, History of Popular Music, Music Research Practice, Music Academic Writing of the University Of West Of Scotland, for which Scottish public institution carries out the role of module leader of the academic disciplines department of Italian campuses. He is a professor of history of Mediterranean jazz, Music Management, of the Italian branch of the Bahçeşehir University Jazz Academy in Istanbul and of Event Design for the International Academy of Rome.
He is a producer and artistic consultant and communication consultant for numerous cultural realities in the Italian territory.
He is the editor of Musica Jazz magazine, as well as Editor Manager of the Jazzitalia webzine and editor of the web version of Musica Jazz magazine. As an expert teacher of Music Management, Entertainment Legislation and Music Communication, he collaborates as a teacher at Saint Louis College in Rome.
He took part in the editorial work “Attualità della memoria” (Ismez editions, 2014). He is a professor of the history of twentieth-century music and the history of jazz at the Il Pentagramma school in Bari and at the Bari lighthouse choir, as well as the history of music at the I Delfini association.
He is the artistic and communication consultant for the Beat Onto Jazz Festival and the Multiculturita Summer Jazz Festival. He is the artistic consultant for the Poliorama and Treterre exhibitions. He collaborates regularly with Paolo Lepore’s Jazz Studio Orchestra, of which he is also a biographer: in 2020 the editorial work on the history of the orchestra will be published. He is a stable member of several music contest juries. He is the artistic director of the review “Lo Scrittore Suonato” (books on music) and collaborates as communication consultant with the Department of Culture of the municipality of Capurso (Ba). Creator, designer and conductor of “Il disco smiagolò: forty years from Arancia Meccanica”, as part of the Bari Unplugged 2011 exhibition.
He collaborated, as producer and / or organizer with Marcus Miller, Manhattan Transfer, Pat Metheny, Brad Mehldau, Arturo Sandoval, Sarah Jane Morris, Dominic Miller, Carla Fracci, Niccolò Ammaniti, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Toquinho, Tony Heinl, Anila Vasjari, Massimo Cotto, Maria Pia De Vito, Kenny Garrett, Ian Paice, Omar Sosa, John Helliwell, Paul Wertico, Bungaro, Peppino Di Capri, Roy Paci, Yellowjackets, Stefano Bollani, John Taylor, John Abercrombie, Randy Brecker, Sheila Jordan.
As a music critic he interviewed over five hundred artists.
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