PanorAMA represents a group of Artists from all over the world and offer them to the Music Production Panorama.
Pianist and Composer she studied at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia classical music and with Maestro Arnaldo Graziosi and with Susanna Spitanlick.
She began to play professionally in small groups in the seventies and later began to collaborate with various international artists, such as, to name a few: Jon Christensen, Palle Danielsson, Peter Erskine, Joe Henderson, Helène La Barrière, Joe Lovano, Charlie Mariano, Marilyn Mazur, Pat Metheny, Sal Nistico, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Dewey Redman, Aldo Romano, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone.
In 1987 she was voted Best New Talent in a poll by Musica Jazz magazine.
In 1989 she joined Billy Cobham's group with whom she performed all over the world.
In 1992 she joined Dewey Redman's group with whom she collaborated for 15 years playing all over Europe and South America. Then some of them are: Jon Christensen, Palle Danielsson, Peter Erskine, Joe Henderson, Helène La Barrière, Joe Lovano, Charlie Mariano, Marilyn Mazur, Pat Metheny, Sal Nistico, Michel Portal, Enrico Rava, Dewey Redman, Aldo Romano, Kenny Wheeler, Norma Winstone.
In 1987 she was voted Best New Talent in a poll by Musica Jazz magazine. In 1989 she joined Billy Cobham's group with whom she performed all over the world. In 1992 she joined Dewey Redman's group with whom she collaborated for 15 years playing all over Europe and South America.
Then she moved to Sweden, collaborating with northern European musicians such as: Palle Danielsson, Marilyn Mazur, Jon Christensen, Niels Petter M. Christensen, Niels Petter Molevar, Anders Jormin, Tore Brumborg. These collaborations influence and consolidate her way of composing.
Back in Italy, she collaborated with Ambrogio Sparagna and Pino Daniele, among others.
In 1996 she accompanied Pat Metheny in a performance at the Sanremo Festival.
More recently she has participated in the making of the film Basilicata Coast to Coast, for which she wrote the soundtrack. Thanks to this work, Marcotulli received the Ciak d'oro in 2010, the Nastro d'argento for the best soundtrack in the same year, the David di Donatello for the best musician in 2011 (the first woman ever to receive this recognition) and the Top Jazz Award 2011 as the best Italian jazz artist according to the magazine Musica Jazz.
In February 2013 she is a member of the jury of quality at the 63rd edition of the Sanremo Festival.
In 2017 she was appointed Ambassador of Umbria in the world.
In 2019, the President of the Italian Republic Sergio Mattarella gives Rita the honorary award as "Ufficiale della Republica" and again in 2019 the nominations as a member of the Royal Academy of Sweden established in 1774 by King Gustavo.
Today Rita Marcotulli is a renowned pianist and composer. Respected for her unique style of sound and ability to improvise. Her source of inspiration is vast and includes influences from Brazilian, African and Indian music.
Martin Wind was born in Flensburg, Germany in 1968 and moved to New York in 1996 to study at New York University (NYU) with a scholarship by the German Academic Exchange Service. In 1995 he earned himself a diploma as Orchestra Musician at the Music Conservatory in Cologne, Germany while studying with Prof. Wolfgang Guettler, former bassist with the Berlin Philharmonics. In 1998 he earned his Master’s degree in Jazz Performance and Composition studying with Mike Richmond, Jim McNeely, Tom Boras, Mike Holober and Kenny Werner.
Since his move to New York Martin has become a regular at all major jazz clubs and is also in demand as a session player; his credits include movies such as “The Alamo”, “Intolerable Cruelty”, “ Mona Lisa Smiles” and “Fur”. In 1995 Martin came in third at the International Thelonious Monk Bass Competition in Washington, D.C. In 1996 Martin Wind won the first Cognac Hennessy/Blue Note Jazz Search in Germany with his trio “Dreikland” and got to record an album for Blue Note Records. In 2000 he was the first Jazz musician to win the Cultural Award of his home state Schleswig-Holstein.
Martin has released more than 10 albums so far as leader/co-leader . Currently Martin is member of the trios of Bill Mays, Dena DeRose, Don Friedman, James Gordon Williams and Russ Kassoff. He also appears frequently with Matt Wilson’s Quartet and “Arts and Crafts”, and Bill Goodwin’s Orntette. With Bill Mays, Martin has been playing for more than a dozen years and they’ve released many albums together, notably Bill’s three recordings for the Palmetto Label. Actually the projects that PANORAMA represents all over Europe are (all with CD out):
Inspired by the music of the extraordinary pianist Bill Evans, the Pinheiro/Ineke/Cavalli Trio explores in this new album musical landscapes constructed from delicate arrangements and intricate musical interaction.
In this vibrant recording, the trio reaches a new level of maturity and consolidated artistry that appears in the way the group develops musical discourse and improvisation.
The guitar/bass/drums trio is here reinvented by the hand of these talented and experienced musicians.
This trio is the brainchild of "Ancona Jazz", with the aim of producing a pure vinyl record for audiophiles that will be presented at the festival. Recorded in the studio last October, the repertoire lives on the deep empathy that was immediately established between the musicians, although Rita and Martin had never seen each other before. They are the powers of jazz, of a universal language that crosses all geographical and cultural boundaries to find common ground. This time this has been achieved with originals and standards linked to the figure of a great saxophonist like Dewey Redman, whose quartet of the 90s included Rita and Matt. Strengthened by this experience, the three of them have immediately found a poetic that ties the solo moments to the service of splendid melodic and harmonic systems. Marcotulli doesn't need an excessive introduction as she is a leading figure not only in the field of jazz. Her career is in fact as multifaceted as her artistic stature, which has seen her at the side of important jazz musicians such as Charlie Mariano, Peter Erskine, Billy Cobham, Palle Danielsson, Joe Henderson, Joe Lovano, Sal Nistico and many other Europeans, but also pop artists such as Ambrogio Sparagna, Max Gazzè and in particular Pino Daniele, Brazilian musicians, not to mention the soundtracks ("Basilicata Coast to Coast", thanks to which he won a Ciak d'oro in 2010 and a Nastro d'argento; in 2011 David di Donatello as best musician). Martin Wind and Matt Wilson are a tight-knit couple, especially in the instrumental formula of the trio (Bill Mays, Dena De Rose), but both can enjoy a conspicuous activity as leaders of modern groups, while respecting the tradition. Instrumental mastery, elegance of execution, stylistic refinement, are elements that go hand in hand in the aesthetic philosophy of the three, always aimed at offering the lucky listener a message vibrant with unique sensations. And so it will be this time too, when the story becomes necessary.