Francesco Banchini
Francesco Banchini (born 24 September 1974, Pozzuoli, Italy ) is an italian musician who plays many instrumens, primarily clarinet. His main infuences are the Medieval, Italian, Eastern European and Middle Eastern music.
At the age of 14 he began to learn in the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella of Naples. Between 1989 and 1995 he was an ACTIVE live musician as a soloist and with a clarinet trio, what split up later, in 1998. During this era, he founded G.O.R. in 1992. Usually he plays every instrument on its releases, but plays concerts with guest musicians. G.O.R. produced many albums and appeared in numerous compilations.
Francesco played with Ataraxia between 1999 and 2003, mainly as percussionist and singer, but he played winds as well. He founded Mescla with Davide della Monica also in 1999, to play Mediterranean and Eastern European folk music as street musicians.
From 2010 Francesco perform with La Scala Philharmonic Orchestraand in 2012 he was with The Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra, actually he works as freelance with the BBC Orchestra.
He commenced his research in 2010 designing and experiences, students learning and engagement, creating various connections with the learners the faculty and the community. In 2015 Francesco presented his research at New York University, Steinhardt (IMPACT Conference), during the 2016 Francesco will present his research at Drew University (Transatlantic conference) Ireland and ISME (International Society for Music Education Conference) Scotland.
Actually, he is studying the relation between different curriculum and work on improving the traditional methodology to inspire, motivate and develop the creativity in the students and teachers.
He has written three film scores: Honey (2003), Ramallah (2005), and Sur (2005).
Releases
- Christos (1993)
- Genocidio di Ordine Religioso (1994)
- Cybernos (1995)
- Iniziazione (1996)
- Entrar sen braz (1997)
- Dicearchia (1997)
- Ruha d'Qudsha (1998)
- Solitudo corpus (1999)
- Bellum Gnosticorum (2000)
- Ialdabaoth (2001)
- Phlegraei (2002)
- Qumran (2003)
- Temporis Recurrens (DVD) (2003)
- Croisades (2004)
- Amore & Tradimento (2004) – (Released in the US under the title Ciganko in 2005.)
- Baqshish (2007)
- Greta (single) (2012)
- Dante (single) (2014)
- Shashamane (single) (2015)
- Sfiorando il cielo (single) (2015)
- Maria Elena (single) (2015)
Film scores
- Honey (2004)
- Ramallah (2005)
- Sur (2005)
Contributions
Lys
- Roi Lune (2001)
- Mélisse (2004)
Ataraxia
- Suenos (2001)
- Mon Soul Desir (2002)
- A Calliope... collection (2002)
Others
- Soleil (w/ Jack or Jive) (2002)
- Love Sessions (2002)
- Segesta (w/ Lino Cannavacciuolo italian violinist) (2002)
- Alabaster (w/ Louisa John Krol) (2003)
- Three living Three dead (w/ The Soil Bleeds Black) (2003)
- Babilon (w/ Morpheus, a Spanish band) (2003)
- Enrico Del Gaudio (2003)
- Love Sessions 2 (2004)
- U'Ciuccio (w/ Massimo Ferrante italian singer/guitarist) (2005)
- The Spirit Rises (Khvarena) (2007)
Publications
- Il concetto di notazione musicale (2013)
- Arabic music notation (2016)
Conference
- Lecture at NYU Steinhardt - IMPACT Conference (2015)
- Lecture at Drew University Ireland - Transatlantic connection conference (2016)
- Lecture at ISME Conference Scotland (2016)
Orchestras
- BBC Philharmonic Orchestra (2015-2016)
- Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra (2012-2014)
- La Scala Philharmonic Orchestra (2010-2012)