Francesco Diodati, 21/12/1983

- studied under Roberto Spadoni.

- 2001: the guitar masterclass of Siena jazz” (2° level)

with P. Condorelli, B. Tommaso, L. Bragalini, R. Spadoni ;

- 2002: the guitar masterclass of “ Siena jazz” (3° level)

with E. Rava, F. Di Castri, T. Lama, S. Zenni;

- 2003: the arrangements and jazz composition summer seminars of Lanciano held by M. Abene, R. Spadoni, L. Bragalini, S. Zenni .

- In 2005 wins a scholarship for “Roma Jazz’ s School” masterclasses with Salvatore Bonafede, Pietro Condorelli, Sandro Gibellini

- Master Classes with M. Giammarco, E. Pierannunzi, R. Gatto, G. Tommaso, R. Giuliani, E. Rava

Contests

First prize at the “Talenti jazz – Martina 2004” competition with his Francesco Diodati quintet.

First Prize at the “Porsche giovani e jazz 2005” competition with his quintet.

First Prize at the “Barga Jazz 2005” with his quintet

In the final selection at the ” Avignon tremplin du jazz” competition, 2005 with his quintet.

First prize of “Premio Palazzo Valentini” during Villa Celimontana Jazz Festival.

Collaborations

Flavio Boltro, Andy Gravish, Marco Tamburini, Mario Raja, MJ Urkestra, Daniele Tittarelli, Francesco Bigoni, Tony Cattano, Renzo Ruggieri, Dan Kinzelman, Francesco Ponticelli, Giovanni Ceccarelli, Stefano Senni, Piero Delle Monache, Alessandro Marzi, Zsolt Kovacs, Dani Vaczi, Bolazs Horwath, Paolo Recchia, Carlo Conti, Riccardo Gola, Emiliano Caroselli, Fulvio Boccafusco, Andrea La Macchia, Gino Boschi, Danielle Di Majo, Ermanno Baron, Antonello Sorrentino, Simone Maggio, Carlo Costa, Vittorio Mezza, Daniele Basirico, Fabio Sartori, Bruno Marinucci, Roberto Spadoni.

Festivals

“Zsambeck Open Jazz (Hungary) 2007" “Pescara Jazz 2007" “Archi in Jazz 2007" "Notte Bianca Roma 2007" “Around Sound Festival” 2007 (LaPalmaClub) 2007

“Wolf Festival” 2007

“Policoro Jazz Fest 2006”

“Archi in Jazz 2006”

“Foligno Youn Jazz in Town 2006”

“Jammin’ all’ Auditorium Parco Della Musica 2006”

“Festival ArteMusica 2006”

“Esperanto Tangenziale Culturale 2006”

“Villa Celimontana 2006”

“XIV Tremplin Jazz D’ Avignon”, 2005

“Gezziamoci”, 2005

“Villa Celimontana”, 2005

“Brescia suona jazz”, 2005

“Roma suona Jazz”, 2005

“Un anno di jazz a Padova”, 2005

“Il jazz di Antiphonae”, 2004

“Villa Celimontana”, 2004

“XXXII Estate Musicale Frentana, Estate in Jazz”, 2003

“Estate Musicale al Cassero”, 2003

“Fiera Del Libro”, 2003

“Ventennale Scuola di Musica Villa Gordiani”, 1998

Discography

A.V. “Porshe live giovani e jazz” (F. Diodati 5et) 2006 (Musica Jazz Edition)

A24 – “A24” Wide Records 2007

Quotes about Francesco Diodati

“ The Francesco Diodati quintet is among the most capable of young italian groups [..]. The original compositions are all characterized by musical elegance and stability.

Jury of “Tremplin jazz D’ Avignon”, Summer 2005

“Beautiful originals! The Francesco Diodati quintet, emerging on a national level, presents fresh, up-to-date mainstream…”

Libero Farnè for “All About Jazz” (www.allaboutjazz.com/italy)

“The music, especially in the original compositions, is characterized by nice freshness, heard both in the improvisations and in the outstanding rythmical ability”

Gigi Sabelli for “Musica Jazz” (Italian Jazz Magazine), May 2005

“This excelent group shows musical capacity and is destined to a brilliant carreer.”

Luca Conti for “Musica Jazz”, November 2005

“The roman guitarist, Francecso Diodati’s beautifully surprising group has a promising future, On their urgent, never too obvious rythmics you can hear a thick dialogue between guitar, sax and trumpet.”

Gigi Sabelli for “Musica Jazz”, December 2005 Discography

A24 - "A24" , WiderLook (2007)