Bruno Tommaso

Double bass player and composer. His versatility comes from a large body of musical experiences. Bruno Tommaso walked through Renaissance music (important his research and performing activity with the ensemble “Gruppo Musica Insieme”), Baroque, lyric-symphonic and contemporary music (in particular in “Nuove Forme Sonore” together with Schiaffini, Jesus Villarojo and Myciko Hirayama), tango (with the band “Novitango” conducted by Hugo Aisemberg) and jazz (from free jazz to mainstream).
He collaborated with influent jazz artists such as Dexter Gordon, Johnny Griffin, Slide Hampton, Peter Erskine, Art Farmer, Frank Rosolino, Lee Konitz, Steve Lacy, Kenny Wheeler, Albert Mangelsdorf, Misha Mengelberg, Evan Parker, John Taylor and Alex Von Slippenbach. Together with them as well as many other musicians he recorded more than 100 albums and had a number of collaborations with radio and TV.
He has performed all around the world. He has been the first president (1989-1990) of the Associazione Nazionale Musicisti di Jazz and of the dell’Associazione “Italian Instabile Orchestra” (1997-1998). Founder of the “Scuola Popolare di Musica di Testaccio”, teacher at various workshops and conservatoire teacher of both classic and jazz double bass, Bruno Tommaso has a large didactic activity. He is one of the most appreciated arrangers and conductors of jazz orchestras in Europe and he conducted the integral version of Ellington’s Suites.