Edoardo Bellotti
He played drums and worked together with Stefano Profeta, Roberto Chiriaco, Gianni Alessandria, Gianni Negro, Riccardo Fioravanti, Giorgio Li Calzi, Dino Contenti, Alessio Menconi, Nicola Muresu, Louis Casih, Massimo Epinot, Dado Moroni, Gigi Di Gregorio, Fabio Gorlier, Eugenio Mirti, Alberto Bellavia, Marco Vezzoso, Alessandro Collina, Enzo Fornione, Massimo Celsi, Alfredo Ponissi, Federico Alotto, Enrico Merlin, Sergio Di Gennaro, Luisa Cottifogli, Danila Satragno, Brossa quartet, Marlevar, Junior Escobar, Matteo Brancaleone, Maurizio Vespa, Nino La Piana, Loris Tarantino, Fabrizio Veglia, Valter Protto, Andrea Parodi, Riccardo Moffa, Carol Sudhalter, Danilo Pala, Gianluigi Corvaglia, Stefano Solani, Jacopo Albini, Riccardo Zegna, Fulvio Albano, Max Carletti and many others.
In 1996 he partecipates in the youth section of Torino JVC festival.
In 2000-2010 performs various concerts in Italy and abroad (France, Spain, Switzerland) with ‘Marlevar’ ethnic band. In 2000 performs a tour together with Andrea Parodi as italian representative at the International Festival of Ethnic music in Dakar (Senegal).
In 2002 records with ‘Marlevar’ band the same name album followed by a tour in many Italians cities in collaboration with ‘Chieftains’.
In 2003 appears in the compilation “All children at School” by Unicef, with many others important world artist (Caetano Veloso, Ani di Franco, Teresa Salguiero, Dulces Pontes, etc.).
In 2008 records the album “Alguien que camina” with the Nicaraguan singer song-writer Junior Escobar.
In 2011 partecipates to the “Donadio Sax Festival” in Cuneo (Italy) with Carol Sudhalter Quintet; to the Jazz Festival at the Borelli Auditorium in Boves (ITaly) with Collina-Chiriaco-Bellotti trio; to the “Centro Comunale di Cultura di Valenza Po” with the “Miles Rewind Project”.
In 2012 partecipates to the Jazz Festival “Vie di Jazz” in Boves (Italy) with “Miles Rewind Project” and to the Moncalieri Jazz Festival with Sally’s Panizzolo Quintet.
He collaborates in studio recordings and concerts focusing on the jazz and acoustic situations combining tradition and modernism of the instrument.
He has held and currently plays a busy teaching schedule at:
Civic Music Institute “A. Gandino”, Bra (Italy)
Civic Music Institute “L. Rocca”, Alba (Italy) in collaboration with Asamimus association.
Civic Music Institute “G.B. Fergusio” in Savigliano and Verzuolo (Italy)
Musical Laboratory “Girotondo”, Cuneo (Italy)
“Accademia Internazionale Albese”, Alba (Italy)
Private lessons and Master class
Born on september 29th, 1967 in Torino (Italy). He took his secondary school diploma with specialisation in teacher training at “Istituto Giusti” in Torino. He obtained a diploma at Modern Musica Academy of Milano, trained under the tutelage of Marco Volpe.
He continued his musical training taking privately lessons from Giampiero Prina, Giorgio Di Tullio, Stefano Bagnoli and Roberto Gatto.
He attended many masterclasss (e.g. Dave Weckl, Tony Oxley, Gary Chaffee, Tommy Campbell, Peter Erskine, Billy Hart, David Liebman, Jojo Mayer, Roberto Cipelli and Ettore Fioravanti) and the Nuoro Jazz Workshop directed by Paolo Fresu.
