Mirra Favata La Porta Trio
ProjectABOUT THE PROJECT
The Italian Maverick musical multi-instrumentalist Enzo Favata brings to the international scene a trio from Italy & Argentina.
The Sardinian saxophone wizard has an unquenchable spirit of adventure, and here he is with a new band that makes his music seem even more vital and essential.
Three visionary musicians, with their sounds have created imaginary universes, using a means of communication such as jazz, improvisation, melodies that attract each other, Latin America, Africa, the Mediterranean Sea.
From jazz to beyond for three special musicians, improvised music, world cultures, electronic music.
From Italy Pasquale Mirra one of the best known vibraphonist in Europe, Enzo Favata saxophonist uses a Mediterranean language in his worlds straddling electronics, jazz, Mediterranean and Africa.
From Argentina based in Buenos Aires Pablo La Porta, in him the great Latin American tradition, through loops where percussion voices play an eternal dance.
A new project that debuts in Sardinia in October 2023, crosses the ocean to tell new possible worlds of jazz.
ABOUT THE ARTISTS
MIRRA FAVATA LA PORTA TRIO
PABLO LA PORTA
percussions, voice, loops
He released three albums as a soloist, “Uno Solo”, “Eleven” and “Un Lugar”. She is currently working on her fourth album. As a session artist, she is part of a large number of Productions.
She performed concerts, workshops and master classes in: Germany, Belgium, Spain, Uruguay, Cuba, Puerto Rico, China, Japan, Brazil, Mexico, Italy, France, Portugal,
Colombia, United States. Winner of the National Fund for the Arts Scholarship to participate in the International Jazz Festival in Shanghai.
He graduated from the “Manuel de Falla” Municipal Conservatory of Music as Senior Professor, specializing in Percussion. He studied with the following teachers: Elden C. Bailey, Chris Lamb and Rolland Koholof, (soloists of the New York Philharmonic), Glen Velez (Frames Drums), Jimmy Haddad (Udu drums), Kinhar K. Seen (Hindu tabla), Babatunde Olatunji and Kehinde O’Uhuru (African percussion). At the Drummer Collective in New York he studied drums with Bobby Sanabria and Kim Plainfield.
He is professor of the Percussion Chair at the Juan Pedro Esnaola School of Music, and at the Higher Institute of Artistic Training ISFA. He is director of the percussion ensemble ESEAM J.P Esnaola He was nominated by the Argentine press for best soloist of the year 2000 in Contemporary music.
founder and member of the percussion quartet Parallel 33º, with which he has performed at the most important national and international festivals in the world such as: Mexico | International Latin American Music Festival / Puerto Rico VI and VII International Percussion Festival / Cuba | Percuba International Festival / Italy | PerNACO International Percussion Festival / France | Le Journnes Percussion International Percussion Festival / Argentina Buenos Aires | Fimba / Tango Festival
Argentina Buenos Aires / BAP Percussion Festival / Uruguay International Festival of “Music in the Lighthouse” / Argentina Rio Negro | Patagonia Percussion Festival.
Freelance musician in the Teatro Colón Stable Orchestra and the Buenos Aires Philharmonic Orchestra. He was a member of the Teatro Colón Chamber Opera with which he toured in Brazil in 2005 and in 2006 in France. Musical direction and interpretation of the play “Perséphone” with music by Iannis Xenakis and choreography by Alejandro Cervera at the CETC of the Teatro Colón. He released a large number of works by composers, among which Metropolis by Fritz Lang stands out with the musical composition of Martin Matalon.
He shared the stage with Jean Paul Bernard
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MIRRA FAVATA LA PORTA TRIO
ENZO FAVATA
Soprano sax, bass clarinet, ethnic woodwind instruments, live electronics
In his long career he has played with his projects in many prestigious festivals and stages around the world.
He has played and recorded with great musicians: the master of the Argentine bandoneon Dino Saluzzi, Enrico Rava Miroslav Vitous, Mulatu Astatk Trilok Gurtu , Sajnkho Namtchylak ancestral voice of Tuva, the trumpeter Lester Bowie, the Art Ensemble of Chicago, Metropole Orkest, Dave Liebman, Brazilian guitarist Guinga, Omar Sosa, Jan Bang, Eivind Aarset, Django Bates and other great musicians around the world such as Paolo Vinaccia, Daniele Di Bonaventura, Tenores di Bitti and Tenores from Orosei (megalithic voices from Sardinia), the singer Dudu Manhenga, Hope Masike, Ivan Mazuze, the Scottish musicians Colin Steele and Dave Milligan and many others. He currently has 2active CDs.
He is also the author of “soundscapes” performances for museums and exhibitions, film soundtracks. In 2017 JazzIT Awards was nominated among the best 3 Italian jazz sopranists.
Favata is also artistic director of the International Jazz Festival MUSICA SULLE BOCCHE, and is one of the most famous events of the Italian jazz scene, characterized both by its always innovative program as well as the his sensitivity to themes such as the environment and the landscape.
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MIRRA FAVATA LA PORTA TRIO
PASQUALE MIRRA
vibraphone, marimba midi, percussions
is considered one of the most engaging and active vibraphonists of the current national and international music scene. He has several commitments with musicians such as Hamid Drake, with whom he collaborates on several projects both in America and in Europe.
In 2005 he joined the Bassesfere association, a collective of musicians engaged in the development and dissemination of improvised music.
He collaborated with the band Mop Mop and took part in the creation of the soundtracks of the film “To Rome with Love”, directed by Woody Allen Pasquale Mirra is considered one of the most engaging and active vibraphonists of the current national and international music scene.
He has several commitments with musicians such as Hamid Drake, with whom he collaborates on several projects both in America and in Europe.
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