Walter Donatiello

Composer, Music researcher, Guitarist, Didact.

Considered one of the talented emerging guitarists in the contemporary area of ​​the moment. He boasts numerous collaborations in the field of traditional jazz music and the avant-garde musical front.

The interesting possibilities in the use of microtones and rhythmic functions make him a current and contemporary musician, a musician who developed, as a school of thought that is not only traditional, elements derived from natural systems and advanced contemporary rhythmic forms. Despite having been linked to the jazz tradition, having played with the greatest exponents of this music, he came to music avant-garde European creating a fresh and original style.

He attended Berklee in Boston under the guidance of the illustrious talent forger Mick Goodrick. Study composition and counterpoint with Arlene Zallman, until arriving at IRCAM in Paris where he attended the master's degree on natural forms and harmonic temporal spaces, linked to contemporary forms, delving into the systems of Set Class Theory. In the first period of his career he boasted numerous highly prestigious collaborations, to name one above all, Gerry Mulligan.

Collaborates actively with the area ofavant-garde europea, involving himself in numerous projects of illustrious exponents of the contemporary area. His innovative method on rhythm entitled "Rhythmic Improvisation" has been successfully published and a new book on improvisation is coming out avant-garde and modern improvisational musical forms.

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