Ferdinando Faraò

Appears on:

• ELOISA MANERA ENSEMBLE
  Invisible Cities
• DIPACE, MASSARIA, GALLO, FARAO’
  Collera City
• BASSISM TRIO
  Dreams Must Explain Themselves

Born in Rome in 1959, he is a composer, conductor, performer. He graduated from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. In 2012, 2017, 2022 and 2025 he won with Artchipel Orchestra, of which he is the founder and conductor, the prestigious “Top Jazz” referendum held by the specialist magazine Musica Jazz in the category ‘Best ensemble of the year’.

He has played on numerous records both as a sideman and leader. Among the productions he has released under his own name are three suites in the form of concept albums: Eschersuite, Pollocksuite and Darwinsuite, dedicated respectively to the works of M.C. Escher, Jackson Pollock and Charles Darwin.

“When speaking of Ferdinando Faraò, it is necessary to emphasise his transversal vision of the musical matter, his openness to the new, his sense of construction, his authoritative design, his ability to draw on any sonic lexicon, where the ‘thought’ jazz of the European matrix and the restless jazz of the New York school add up to distant scents of the glorious sound of Canterbury”. (Enzo Pavoni)