Stefano Scodanibbio (18 June 1956 – 8 January 2012) was an Italian musician who reached international prominence as a double bassist and composer.

Biography

Scodanibbio was born in

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. He studied double bass with Fernando Grillo and composition with Fausto Razzi and

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. From an early age he was interested in the double bass as a solo instrument and in promoting new trends in contemporary European and American music. In 1983 he founded the ''Rassegna di Nuova Musica'' in Macerata. He has been described as "a tremendous bassist, a fearless improviser, and a gifted composer". The many composers who have written for him include

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, Fernando Mencherini,

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, Julio Estrada. He worked for a long period with Luigi Nono. He worked closely with the musician

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, as well as with choreographers and dancers such as Virgilio Sieni, Patricia Kuypers, Hervé Diasnas, the poets

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and Gian Ruggero Manzoni, the philosopher

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, the artist Gianni Dessì and the director and playwright Rodrigo Garcia. He played regularly with Rohan de Saram and Markus Stockhausen. From the 1990s he taught master classes and seminars at the Shepherd School of Music at

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, University of California Berkeley, Stanford University,

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, Musikhochschule Stuttgart, Conservatoire de Paris, Milan Conservatory, etc. In 1996 he taught double bass at Darmstadt Ferienkurse. He died in

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, aged 55.

Discography

*1997 - '' Lazy Afternoon among the Crocodiles'' - Terry Riley & Stefano Scodanibbio (Pierrot Lunaire) *1998 - ''Voyage That Never Ends'' (New Albion) *1998 - ''One says Mexico '' *1999 - ''Postkarten'' - Stefano Scodanibbio & Edoardo Sanguineti *2000 - ''Geografia amorosa'' *2001 - ''Six Duos '' (New Albion) *2001 - ''Visas per Vittorio Reta'' *2004 - ''My new address'' (Stradivarius) *2005 - ''Diamond Fiddle Language'' - Terry Riley & Stefano Scodanibbio (Magonza/Wergo) *2006 - ''Visas per Vittorio Reta'' - (Le Lettere, Florence) *2010 - ''On Debussy's Piano And...'' - Thollem/Scodanibbio (die Schachtel) *2010 - ''Oltracuidansa'' (Mode Records, New York) *2013 - ''Reinventions'' - Quartetto Prometeo (ECM records) *2017 - ''Bass Duo'' (with William Parker), Centering Records; recorded Udin&Jazz 2008 Festival in

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External links

Official siteStefano Scodanibbio in DiscogsStefano Scodanibbio in All About Jazz
*http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2012/01/10/cultura/a05n1cul {{DEFAULTSORT:Scodanibbio, Stefano 1956 births 2012 deaths 20th-century classical composers Italian classical composers Italian male classical composers Italian classical double-bassists Male double-bassists 20th-century Italian composers 20th-century Italian male musicians