"What touched me deeply when I first listened to Ivano, was the extraordinary versatility and the nonchalance with which he moves from one style to another, mastering scores created in very different contexts and with very different content."

"Because of  this I could be confident that when writing for him, my dream of breaking down those claustrophoic walls, within which contemporary music often hides, really would come true."

"So I wrote Cantabile, a piece full of ideas but all bound by one lyrical strand which passes through several episodes. A close and intense dialogue occurs between the piano and the trumpet in which they share and weave together as though in a deep and intimate embrace. - continous melodic path interspersed by contrasting episodes which join to form a conclusion which weaves everything open-ended, in suspension and unresolved."

For further information contact:

Ivano Ascari
(TN) Italy
Tel. + 39 0464 423233, Fax + 39 0464 432200
e-mail: ivanoascari@libero.it