The Tuscia In Jazz Seminars are an extraordinary chance to meet world’s greatest jazzmen and to become better musicians and better humans. The classes are open to everyone who mean to improve his knowledge of one ore more instruments in the jazz music field, and will take place all day-long with instrument lessons, ensamble music lessons and classes of theory and harmony. At the end of the seminars the students will be given a certificate of attendance. With the Tuscia In Jazz’s teaching format, a single enrolment fee allows to attend every single instrument class and every concert with no extra costs. At the end of the summer camp, during the Night In Jazz, students will play on stage with the teachers.

Fabio Zeppetella

is one of the most talented guitar players and italian composers come out from today’s international but also european jazz scene. Great technique and high musical sensibility, he has got a personal own language come out by a research through his own style of playing, which he developed during the years. All this, passing through the jazz tradition made out by incredibile musicians and composers such as Charlie Christian and Wes Montgomery, evocating Bebop and the younger sixties Hard-Bop. His phrasing leads to dominant aspects of a never expected language, sometimes virtuoso, some other times sweet , but essentially pure, paying particoular attention to the meaning of every single note he plays , besides the moving frequences produced by them. His dominant characteristics are the freshness and the strenght of his original way of interpretating music, and a deep research of lyrism where poetry and music melt up. His dymanism brought him to take place on several projects, from jazz to funk and R ‘N B. During his career he has played with artists such as Kenny Wheeler, Lee Konitz, Tom Harrell, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Aldo Romano, Roberto Gatto, Danilo Rea, Steve Grossman, Javier Girotto, Nicola Stilo, Stefano Bollani, Rosario Giuliani, Fabrizio Bosso, Gegè Telesforo, Stefano Di Battista, Maurizio Giammarco, Gianluca Petrella, Fabrizio Sferra, Ares Tavolazzi, Ramberto Ciammarughi, Heyn Van De Geyn, Emmanuel Bex and many others.

Peter Bernstein

Born in New York City on September 3, 1967, Peter began playing piano when he was 8 but switched to guitar when he was 13, learning the instrument primarily by ear. He studied Jazz at Rutgers University with Ted Dunbar and Kenny Barron. He completed his degree at The New School in New York City, where he met and studied with one of his mentors and influences Jim Hall. In 1990, Hall asked Bernstein to play in an invitational jazz guitar festival in which John Scofield and Pat Metheny were performing. Bernstein and Hall performed as a duo, and have played together in this context throughout Peter’s career. That same year soul jazz great Lou Donaldson discovered Bernstein and Peter played on several of Lou’s records. Throughout the 1990s, Bernstein was at the forefront of contemporary jazz; he played with Joshua Redman, Melvin Rhyne, Diana Krall, Larry Goldings, Bill Stewart, Jimmy Cobb, Lee Konitz, Roy Hargrove, Tom Harrell, Joe Lovano, Jack McDuff, Lonnie Smith, Eric Alexander, Brad Mehldau, Christian McBride, Mike LeDonne and many more. Bernstein is known for his clean, warm guitar tone and his lyrical melodic lines.
In 2008, Bernstein became part of The Blue Note 7, a septet formed that year in honor of the 70th anniversary of Blue Note Records. The group recorded an album in 2008, entitled Mosaic, which was released in 2009 on Blue Note Records/EMI, and toured the United States in promotion of the album from January until April 2009. The group plays the music of Blue Note Records from various artists, with arrangements by members of the band and Renee Rosnes Recently, Bernstein has joined Sonny Rollins’ new quintet. (wikipedia)

Lucio Ferrara

Guitarist, composer and teacher, Lucio Ferrara is a musician working between Italy and USA. In the U.S. he has performed at Dizzy’s Coca Cola, the Smalls, the historic Myntons Playhouse in New York and other clubs in town, and also at the Rochester Jazz Festival. Since 2004 he performed at festivals and clubs worldwide with drummers as Rodney Green, Joe Farnsworth, Ulysses Owens, Peter Vannostrand, bassplayers as Paul Gill, John Webber, Doug Weiss, Mark Panascia, pianists as Antonio Ciacca, Andrea Pozza Luke Mannutza, Spike Wilner, Greg Burk, and the Hammond player Tony Monaco.
He has just released his latest CD “It’s All Right With Me” with the extraordinary afford of Lee Konitz, its point of reference as an improviser. Lucio has also intense teaching activity; and taught Jazz Guitar at the Lagos Jazz Festival (Portugal). Since 2004 he is Director and Teacher of Jazz Guitar at Orsara International Jazz Music Seminars, now in its XXIII edition. He’s also director of Tuscia in Jazz workshops and La Spezia Jazz. He taught for three years at the Conservatory of Cosenza and a year at the Conservatory of Rovigo (basic course). Self-taught, at the age of ten he started playing the clarinet, then switched to guitar. Born in Orsara Di Puglia, he moved to Bologna to join the statistics degree course but then dropped to devote himself completely to music. He won the city’s most important Iceberg 98 and for some years devoted to Brazilian music. During the years in Bologna is in contact with many musicians, notably with pianist Antonio Ciacca. He collects important experiences, including record companies, with Bruno Thomas Orchestra in the years 1997 to 2007. Then Ferrara attended Barry Harris seminars from which he receives the basics of harmony and jazz improvisation. In the first full maturity follows the Diploma Degree in Jazz at the Conservatory “GB Martini “in Bologna and then the Diploma Level II (Degree in Jazz) at the Conservatory “A. Buzzolla” of Adria. In his career he also played with Lee Konitz, Benny Golson, Joey DeFrancesco, Billy Harper, Jerry Bergonzi, Rick Margitza, Lew Tabakin, Rosario Giuliani, Joe Magnarelli.