Percussion ensemble concert with guest artist Marco Pacassoni.
Marco Pacassoni graduated cum laude from “G. Rossini” Conservatory in Italy and Berklee College of Music in Boston. He studied with Gary Burton, Ed Saindon, Victor Mendoza, Daniele Di Gregorio, Eguie Castrillo, John Ramsey, and Steve Wilkes.In 2005 Marco won the best Italian Jazz talent award at the Chicco Bettinardi Competition organized by Piacenza Jazz Festival. Marco has played with Michel Camilo, Alex Acuna, Horacio “el negro” Hernandez, Steve Smith, John Beck, Amik Guerra, Trent Austin, Greg Hutchinson, Chihiro Yamanaka, Bungaro, Malika Ayane, Petra Magoni, Raphael Gualazzi, Luca Barbarossa, Francesco Cafiso, Massimo Manzi, Massimo Moriconi, Filippo Lattanzi, Daniele Di Gregorio, Paolo Belli, Luca Colombo, and Cesare Chiodo. Recently Marco and his quartet released Finally (Groovemaster Edition 2011), Happiness (AlfaMusic 2014), Grazie (Nasswetter Music Group 2017) and Frank & Ruth (Esordisco 2018). Marco is percussion faculty at Liceo Musicale Rinaldini in Ancona and at the Cappella Musicale del SS. Sacramento Urbino for students of the University of Texas San Antonio participating in the COLFA Semester in Urbino, Italy. Marco has presented masterclasses at prestigious American colleges such as Oberlin Conservatory (Ohio), University of Minneapolis (Minnesota), Eastman School of Music (Rochester), Columbus University (Ohio), Cleveland University (Ohio). In April 2014 Marco released a harmony and composition book called Quasi quasi scrivo una canzone… (I almost wrote a song…).
