Francesco Banchini (born 24 September 1974,

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, Italy) is an Italian musician who plays many instruments, primarily clarinet. His main influences are the Medieval, Italian, Eastern European and Middle Eastern music. At the age of 14 he began to learn in the Conservatorio di San Pietro a Majella of

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. Between 1989 and 1995 he was an active live musician as a soloist and with a clarinet trio, what split up later, in 1998. During this era, he founded G.O.R. in 1992. Usually he plays every instrument on its releases, but plays concerts with guest musicians. G.O.R. produced many albums and appeared in numerous compilations. Francesco played as a guest musician with several bands. From 2010 Francesco performed with

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Philharmonic Orchestra and in 2012 with The

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. Currently, he works freelance with the

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. His research commenced in 2010, focuses on designing experiences which maximise students' learning and engagement, by creating meaningful connections between learners, the Facilitators and the wider community. In 2015 Francesco presented his research at

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, Steinhardt (IMPACT Conference). During 2016, he presented his research at

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(Transatlantic conference) in Ireland and at the

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(ISME) conference in Scotland, and at the ECIS Leadership Conference in Rome. At the present time, he is studying the relationship between different curricula and is working on improving traditional methodologies with the purpose to inspire, motivate and develop creativity in both students and teachers. He has written three film scores: ''Honey'' (2003), ''Ramallah'' (2005), and ''Sur'' (2005).

Releases

*Christos (1993) *Genocidio di Ordine Religioso (1994) *Cybernos (1995) *Iniziazione (1996) *Entrar sen braz (1997) *Dicearchia (1997) *Ruha d'Qudsha (1998) *Solitudo corpus (1999) *Bellum Gnosticorum (2000) *Ialdabaoth (2001) *Phlegraei (2002) *Qumran (2003) *Temporis Recurrens (DVD) (2003) *Croisades (2004) *Amore & Tradimento (2004) – (Released in the US under the title Ciganko in 2005.) *Baqshish (2007) *Greta (single) (2012) *Dante (single) (2014) *Shashamane (single) (2015) *Sfiorando il cielo (single) (2015) *Maria Elena (single) (2015)

Film scores

*Honey (2004) *Ramallah (2005) *Sur (2005)

Contributions

Lys

*Roi Lune (2001) *Mélisse (2004)

Ataraxia

*Suenos (2001) *Mon Soul Desir (2002) *A Calliope... collection (2002)

Others

*Soleil (w/ Jack or Jive) (2002) *Love Sessions (2002) *Segesta (w/ Lino Cannavacciuolo italian violinist) (2002) *Alabaster (w/ Louisa John Krol) (2003) *Three living Three dead (w/

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) (2003) *Babilon (w/

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, a Spanish band) (2003) *Enrico Del Gaudio (2003) *Love Sessions 2 (2004) *U'Ciuccio (w/ Massimo Ferrante italian singer/guitarist) (2005) *The Spirit Rises (

Khvarena Khvarenah (also spelled khwarenah or xwarra(h): ae, 𐬓𐬀𐬭𐬆𐬥𐬀𐬵 ') is an Avestan word for a Zoroastrian concept literally denoting "glory" or "splendour" but understood as a divine mystical force or power projected upon and aidin ...

) (2007)

Publications

*Il concetto di notazione musicale (2013) *Arabic music notation (2016)

Conference

*Lecture at NYU Steinhardt - IMPACT Conference (2015) *Lecture at Drew University Ireland - Transatlantic connection conference (2016) *Lecture at ECIS Leadership Conference - Rome (2016)

Orchestras

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(2015–2016) *

(2012–2014) *

Philharmonic Orchestra (2010–2012)

References

External links

Info page at the website of ''Prikosvenie''Francesco Banchini on YouTubeFrancesco Banchini on SoundCloud
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