Projects
Composer and guitarist, working across jazz orchestra, chamber ensembles, music theatre and film.
AS A LEADER
Projects
The Value Of Choices
“While composing, one is often faced with an infinite range of possible timbres, dynamics, and evolutions through which the music may unfold. Every note chosen, every decision made, has a profound impact on the final result. In composition, as in life: this is the value of choices.”
Lulela
Lulela, a combination from the Italian ‘lui’, ‘lei’ en ‘l’altro’ or ‘he, ‘she’ and ‘the other’, is a hybrid jazz concert in which performers, protagonist and audience become one fluid identity. Lulela is a musical trip that combines emotions as loneliness and melancholia with humour and romance.
Deep
Deep contemporary studies for guitar Composed by Gabriele di Franco Performed by Jasper Iturrospe Etcetera Records Release date 10_03_23 thanks to Jasper for playing so beautifully, thanks to Arianna, Raffaele, and Anita for supporting me every day, thanks to Federico and Valentina for being such wonderful human beings. recorded by…
Beautiful Useless Songs — new quintet, in the making.
AS A CO-LEADER
Collaborative projects
di Franco // Negro
Gabriele di Franco and Francesco Negro are a duo of composers and musicians originally from Puglia (Italy). Their musical history is a fusion of two distinct paths: while Gabriele spent over a decade abroad and currently lives in Belgium, Francesco chose to root his artistic path in their homeland. Their collaboration was born from…
Bija
The Sanskrit term “bija” (seed) represents the source and at the same time the cause of all things. It is the vibration, the primordial sound from which it all began. From this fascination, in 2011 Bija were born. This atypical trio, composed, somewhat by chance, of an electric guitar, a trumpet and drums, made the decision to create…
ACTIVE, LED BY OTHERS
As sideman
- Ramon van Merkenstein Trio
- VIVA — Yuting Li
- Flavio Rio
- Dante Loves Jazz