Luigi Giannatempo

Awarded in various Jazz Composition and Arrangement competitions (Barga Jazz, Sassari Jazz Writing, Euro Jazz Writing Contest in Paris, Roccella Ionica, scholarship of the Manhattan School of Music in New York) he composed and arranged for symphony orchestras, strings quartets, Jazz Orchestras, choirs, string orchestras, brass quintets, etc.

His pieces have been performed in Italy, France, China, United States, Spain, Switzerland, Holland, Russia, Argentina, Brazil, England by ensembles such as: the Jazz Orchestra of Sardinia with Paolo Fresu, Javier Girotto, Cinzia Tedesco; the Orchestra of the Veneto Jazz festival with John Mosca, Dick Oatts, Cecil Bridgewater; The Euro Jazz Big Band in Paris; the Chicago Jazz ensemble, the Western Illinois University Big Band, the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra with Dee Dee Bridgewater; the Big Band of the Superior Conservatory of Music of La Coruna (Spain) with Rosario Giuliani; the Sao Paulo Rhythm-Symphony Orchestra; the Symphony Orchestra of the Province of Bari; the Symphony Orchestra of Magna Grecia; the Colors Jazz Orchestra conducted by Massimo Morganti; the Solstice String Quartet (London); the Exit Orchestra conducted by Marco Tiso; the Italian Big Band; the Apulian Orchestra with Paolo Fresu; l’Atem sax quartet; the Saint Louis Big Band; the Pessoa quartet; the Iatalsax quartet; the Forma Jazz Orchestra with Dee Dee Bridgewater and others.

He has several recordings to his credit as composer and arranger; among others, he has edited the arrangements for: Nahuel (ed. Manifesto) by Javier Girotto and Vertere String Quartet, presented, among others, at the Festival of Villa Celimontana, at Atina Jazz, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, at the Theater della Pergola in Florence, at the festival Le vie del Jazz in Bologna and on Radio3 Rai. Some pieces of this project were performed by Federico Mondelci with the Moscow Chamber Orchestra at the Tchaikovsky Hall in Moscow, in Munich with the Symphony Orchestra of Padua and Veneto and at the Aram Khachaturian Concert Hall.
Besides – Songs from the Sixties (Schema Records) by Gaetano Partipilo with: Pietro Lussu, Alice Ricciardi, Rosalia De Souza, Fabrizio Bosso, Heidi Vogel and archi.
OJS plays the Music of James Taylor, of the Jazz Orchestra of Sardinia with the Belgian singer and composer David Linx. Some pieces of this work were performed in 2014 at the Center for the Performing Arts in Vancouver by the A Band directed by Brad Turner.

He returns to collaborate with the Argentine saxophonist Javier Girotto, taking care of the arrangements of Musica Argentina para Big Band (ed. Parco della Musica Records), presented at the Auditorium Parco della Musica, at the Coliseo Theater in Buenos Aires, at the North Sea Jazz Festival, at Cordoba International Jazz Festival. He is one of the arrangers of the Villa Celimontana Jazz Orchestra, an ensemble that closed the 2009 edition of the homonymous Festival, with a project dedicated to the music of Zawinul.

In May 2010 the Western Illinois University Orchestra performed its music at Carnegie Hall in New York.

His other interests as composer and arranger include: Umbria Jazz, Villa Celimontana, Atina Jazz, Bergamo Jazz, Academic Room of the Santa Cecilia Conservatory, Petruzzelli Theater in Bari. His compositions and arrangements were performed at the Casa del Jazz with Daniele Tittarelli and, at the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome, as part of the web night transmission of Assante and Castaldo with Stefano Di Battista, by NTJO directed by Mario Corvini.

He was invited to arrange a suite by Paolo Fresu for the Conservatori Jazz Orchestra, performed at the Puccini Theater in Florence, Brussels on the occasion of the Italian Presidency of the Council of the European Union, at the Piccolo Teatro Strehler, at Umbria Jazz, at Nantes Jazz Festival, in L’Aquila as part of the Italian Jazz Day for L’Aquila, at the Eliseo Theater in Rome. In 2012, he curated the arrangements for orchestra of a concert by Gino Paoli.

His pieces were performed by the Big Bands of the conservatories of: Adria, Rovigo, Pescara, Rome and by the Saxophone Ensemble of the Bari Conservatory.

He attended the advanced course in composition and arrangement of Siena Jazz under the guidance of Giancarlo Gazzani, of which he later became assistant.

He spent a period of study in the United States, attending the Postgraduate Diploma in Jazz Composition at the Manhattan School of Music in New York where he was able to study, among others, with: Richard DeRosa, Chris Rosemberg, Joan Stiles, Elias Tanenbaum , Ludmila Ulehla.