Simone Bottasso

Simone is muzikant, componist en dirigent en speelt onder meer accordeon. Hij produceerde inmiddels 2x Music Through The Walls samen met mede-Batavieren Romain Bly en Tijmen Veelenturf

Simone Bottasso

Musician, composer and conductor, Simone Bottasso studied accordion and specialised in Occitan and French traditional music. He studied with Norbert Pignol, Stephane Milleret, Silvio Peron and also graduated in classical and jazz flute at the Conservatorio G.Verdi di Torino. In 2017 he graduated in jazz, contemporary and electronic composition at CODARTS (Rotterdam, Netherlands) where he studied with Paul Van Brugge, René Uiljenhoet and Peter Jan Wagemans.

His pervasive interest in music and the use of imagination in the creation of sound constantly drives him, combining his traditional roots with as many genres as possible.

As a musician and composer, he has collaborated with several projects and ensembles that combine folk music with jazz, funk, rock, contemporary and electronic music: including Duo Bottasso, Abnoba, Triotonico, The Folk Messengers, Neighbours and DNL – Digital Nature of Leven. Since 2015 he has been a member of Samurai, an international accordion quintet formed by Kepa Junkera, Riccardo Tesi, Dave Munnelly and Markku Lepistu.

Together with Romain Bly and Tijmen Veelenturf, he is the producer of Music Through The Walls, a crazy house orchestra project that gathers the best musicians of Rotterdam at strange locations to record an orchestral video clip.

He collaborates with Duo Bottasso on the audiovisual show “Il Cielo di Pietra” (in collaboration with Simone Sims Longo & Cosenude Media Projects), commissioned by Alpentoene festival and with the collaboration of the EYE FILM INSTITUTE of Amsterdam, and on Linguamadre, a quartet with Elsa Martin and Davide Ambrogio that presents new compositions based on the traditional poems in different Italian dialects collected by Pierpaolo Pasolini in the “Canzoniere Italiano” (1955).

As a composer, he is strongly attached to his own instrument and wants to create new literature for the Organetto; therefore, he usually plays the music he writes.

In 2018 he wrote ‘Omnia sunt communia’ for diatonic accordion and big band (New Rotterdam Jazz Orchestra;) and ‘Music by Heart’ for children’s choir (Chemnitz Opera Kinderchor) for accordion, violin and live electronics. Together with his brother Nicolò Bottasso he wrote the soundtrack for the film “Biserta: storia a spirale” for Cosenude Media Projects, which was also published as a CD in trio with Simone Sims Longo.

Together with his brother Nicolò and Pietro Numico, he was musical and artistic director of the “Folkestra & Folkoro”, a folk orchestra based in Turin. The ensemble, founded by Duo Bottasso in 2009, includes 40 musicians and performs original compositions and arrangements of Italian folk songs with contemporary jazz and rock influences.

Besides his musical and compositional career, he gives many international workshops and master classes.

More information about Simone can be found here.

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