Fabrizio Giambanco

Fabrizio Giambanco is born in 1972, once he graduated he did a Licenza Di Teoria e Solfeggio in the Conservatorio A. Scarlatti (already V. Bellini) of Palermo. He is teacher of Jazz Drum, since 2010 at the C.E.S.M. of Catania, and since 2018 at the Brass Group Foundation.

In february 2007 he begins his concertistic activity in the Dusko Goyocovich Quartet at the Complesso Monumentale dello Spasimo of Palermo. In agust of the same year he plays in the Salvatore Bonafede Trio at the complesso Monumentale Tonnara Bordonaro and in the Stefano Di Battista Quartet in Messina.

In 2008 he does several concerts at the Complesso Monumentale dello Spasimo, in the Bob Mintzer Quartet and in the Flavio Boltro Quartet, and finally in the Orchestra Jazz Siciliana.

In 2009 he plays with Eilena Dennis Quartet at the Borgo Jazz Club of Genova, at the Lucca Jazz Festival and at the Bravo Caffè of Bologna, then with the Gianni Gebbia Trio in Mussomeli and with the Orazio Maugheri Jazz Quintet at the Festival Internazionale Sergio Amato in Canicattini Bagni. He comes back in Palermo playing with the Salvatore Bonafede Trio and Daniele Scannapieco in Palazzo Jung, and he continues at the Spasimo with several concerts with the Charles Tolliver Quartet, Diego Spitaleri Jazz Trio, George Cables Quartet.

In 2010 he collaborates with Flora Faja and in april he plays at the Onyx Jazz Club of Matera, at the Macerata Jazz, and in Bologna at the Cantina Bentivoglio; he also plays with the Salvatore Bonafede Quartet with Fabrizio Bosso and Piero Leveratto during the Jazz Vanguard 2010 at the Teatro Metropolitan.

In 2014 he goes on the european tour “L’Appartenenza” with Pippo Pollina & Acustic Quintet.

Between 2015 and 2016he plays with The Unsaid Songs Quartet at the Live Palermo Jazz Festival, with Pippo Pollina & Acustic Quintet at the Hallenstadion of Zurigo, with the Mazzamuto’s Quintet at the International Music Academy of Palermo and the Sicilian Sinphonic Orchestra-Jazz Season, with the Enrico Intra Quartet at the Castelbuono Jazz Festival (Castelbuono).

In 2017 he is again with Pippo Pollina & Acustic Quintet in the european tour “Il sole che verrà”.

In november he is back in Sicily and he plays in the Palermo International Jazz Festival 2017, with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, and with the Jazz Orchestra of the Conservatorio V. Bellini with which he plays again in january 2018 at the Theater Sangiorgi of Catania and at the Castelbuono Jazz Festival (Palermo).