bio

Michele plays bass and writes music

Bass player, composer, orchestrator, copyist, and founder SampleMi, Michele was born in Italy in 1982, and started playing bass at age 12.

He holds a first class degree with honours in classical composition from Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance in London, having studied under professors John Ashton Thomas, Stephen Montague, Mark Lockheart, Bruno Heinen, and Gwyn Pritchard. He holds a Masters Degree in Composition, first class with distinction, from University of West London – London College of Music, having studied under professors Francis Pott, Jan Willem de With, David Osbon, and Bartosz Szafranski.

Throughout his career he played blues, jazz, fusion, latin, rock, pop, funk and gospel music, and collaborated with notable artists like Andrea Dulbecco, Javier Girotto, Antonio Faraò, Bruno Heinen, Mark Lockheart, Simone Locarni, Stefano Bagnoli, Bebo Ferra, Riccardo Chiaberta, Maria Chiara Argirò, Roberto Cecchetto, Dado Moroni, Claudio Filippini, Giovanni Falzone, Paolo Jannacci, Maciek Pysz, Alex Stuart, Mattia Cigalini, Maxx Furian, Marco Detto, Massimo Colombo, Gene Calderazzo, Walter Calloni and many more.

He was a member of Dockery Farms Blues Band from 1997 to 1999.

In 2001, he started working with singer-songwriter Antonio Turconi on his debut album Lettere Dal Bagnasciuga, and later recorded Cronache Imperfette, published in 2009.

He formed MAG Trio in 2002, with pianist Gianfranco Calvi and drummer Angelo Corvino.
Together they released Pensieri Circolari (2004, with special guest Javier Girotto on saxophone), and L’Attesa (2011).

In 2003 he was amongst the finalists of prestigious Premio Nazionale Massimo Urbani for young jazz musicians,
where he won a scholarship to attend the Berklee Summer School at Umbria Jazz Clinics in Perugia the same year.

In 2016 he formed Kino Trio, together with Bruno Heinen and Riccardo Chiaberta.
Their debut album Il Cielo Sopra Berlino was released in 2019 by Babel Label.

He lectures in electric bass, orchestration, and composition, and has worked as a composer’s assistant, arranger, and copyist for renowned composers and publishing companies (Bärenreiter, United Publishing, CoMA, Laura Rossi, Stephen Montague, Stephen Kovacevich).

He composed and produced music for chamber and jazz ensembles, films, short movies, theatre, video games and commercials for important brands
such as Pomellato, Zegna, Who’s Who, FullFrameFigure, Prada, Manor, Ostia! Media, I’m Smart, and many more.

In 2021 he founded SampleMi, a charitable company specialised in creating custom made sample libraries sold for a free donation devolved to charity.

He currently lives in London, UK.

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