Francesco De Tuoni

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Born in 1999 in Motta di Livenza, Italy. He began studying music and
playing the drums at the age of ten. From 2018 to 2021, he studied Jazz
Drums and Percussion at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua,
before continuing his studies and professional training at Siena Jazz
University under the guidance of artists and maestros such as Jeff
Ballard, Gregory Hutchinson, Ziv Ravitz, Reiner Bass, Damien Cabaud,
Gabriele Evangelista, Stefano Battaglia, Roberto Cecchetto, Francesco
Bigoni, Jesse Davis, and many others. In addition, as part of the
international workshops organized by the Siena Jazz Academy, he
attended instrument and ensemble music lessons with world-class artists
such as Gerald Clayton, Fabian Almazan, Micheal Mayo, Kendrick Scott,
Dan Weiss, Nate Wood, Tommy Crane, Henry Cole, and many others. In
2022/23, he was part of the L-ab group led and selected by Francesco
Diodati. In the summer of 2023, he was selected, with the F.A.D.E
Quartet, as one of the ten finalists of the Conad Jazz Festival. He is
currently part of bassist Andrea Lombardini’s project “Cenobium”, with
whom he released the album “MMXXIV”. In 2024, he won first place in
the “Marco Tamburini” award with the collective “Aria”.