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.

Kurt Rosenwinkel

Born in Philadelphia in 1971, Kurt Rosenwinkel is widely regarded as the most impressive guitarist of his generation. Raised in a family where music played a major role, after the beginning of his artistic career in his hometown, he moved to Boston where he studied at the Berklee College of Music and is hired by Gary Burton to join the group. Later he joined the Electric Bebop Band of Paul Motian and, in 2001, he moved to New York where he had the chance to develop his own concept of music, playing regularly in clubs like Small’s, and performing with Brad Mehldau, Mark Turner, Ben Street, Larry Grenadier, Avishai Cohen, Jeff Ballard, Jorge Rossy. His first album, recorded live in 1997 at Small’s, is made for the Fresh Sound New Talent. Rosenwinkel already shows great maturity and depth of conception, combined with a sudden unmistakable sound. In 1998 he published with Criss-Cross “Intuit.” A few months after the recording of “East Coast Love Affair”, Kurt returned to the studio with Mark Turner, Ben Street, Jeff Ballard and keyboardist Scott Kinsey in 2000 to record what would become the first of his published albums for Verve, “The Enemies of Energy.” Before moving to the Verve, Rosenwinkel secured a contract with Impulse!, for whom he recorded the album “Under it All”, that will not be published due to the absorption of the Impulse! from Universal. Also for Verve, published in 2000 “The Next Step” and 2003 “Heartcore” and its realization in their office to Kurt requires two and a half of work. “Deepsong” in 2004 starring alongside Kurt Joshua Redman – whose CD “Momentum” the collaboration of Kurt – Brad Mehldau, Larry Grenadier and Ali Jackson and Jeff Ballard on drums.

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.