Ferdinando Romano is a multi award winning doublebass player, composer and improviser.

In the Top Jazz 2023, the critics' poll held by the historical magazine Musica Jazz, he won major awards in the Musician of the Year category, Albums of the Year and Ensembles of the Year (with his new album Invisible Painters)

With the previous album Totem feat. Ralph Alessi, Romano had won numerous awa...
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Ferdinando Romano is a multi award winning doublebass player, composer and improviser.

In the Top Jazz 2023, the critics' poll held by the historical magazine Musica Jazz, he won major awards in the Musician of the Year category, Albums of the Year and Ensembles of the Year (with his new album Invisible Painters)

With the previous album Totem feat. Ralph Alessi, Romano had won numerous awards such as 'Best New Italian Talent 2020' in Musica Jazz magazine's annual Top Jazz and the prestigious SIAE Award 2021.

He got international acclaim from magazines all over the world and has been described as “a poetic bassist, inspired composer and intriguing arranger” (T. Conrad, Stereophile), “A brilliant album, expression of a clear talent” (Musica Jazz), “a highly expressive jazz, always taking care of narrative in music” (La Repubblica), “an album that is high in quality and benefits from that musical sweet spot between challenging and accessible listening.” (Uk Vibe)

Ferdinando tours intensively in Europe, playing in major clubs and Festivals.

With the vibraphonist Nazareno Caputo’s trio Phylum he was awarded in 2021 as Best Debut Album by the New York City Jazz Record

Ferdinando has an intense activity live and in studio, as a leader and as a sideman, collaborating with many musicians like Ralph Alessi, Enrico Rava, Robin Eubanks, Benny Golson, Glenn Ferris, Logan Richardson, Alexander Hawkins, Elias Stemeseder, Jerome Sabbagh, Yuhan Su, Napoleon Murphy Brock and many more

As a composers some of his orchestral and chamber compositions have been played in festivals. In particular the composition for string quartet Madrigale LXI has been played in the festival Art of this Century, dedicated to music whose scores where damaged by the Florence flood in 1966, recreated and completed by some composers to be presented in a contemporary way. The orchestral composition I Tetti della città, inspired by Claude Debussy's music, has been played in the Youth Orchestra Festival in Palazzo Vecchio in Firenze.

He also worked as a musician and composer with theater companies participating to many recordings and productions for Rai (Italian Radio and Television) and Radio Televisione della Svizzera Italiana (soundtracks of film tv, musicals and radio-tv programs).

Ferdinando is classically trained, he got his doublebass diploma from the Conservatorio L. Cherubini di Firenze ,studying at the same time Composition in the same school.

In 2015 he then got a Master in Performance with Enrico Fagone at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano, where he lived for 3 years and had the chance to refine his studies with acclaimed international soloists like Klaus Stoll (Berliner Philarmoniker), Tim Cobb (Juiliard School, Manhattan School of Music), Michael Klinghoffer (Jerusalem Accademy), Christine Hoock (Mozarteum Salzburg), Diego Zecharies, Hans Roelofsen (Institute of the Arts, Netherland) and many more.

He studied privately with Ares Tavolazzi, Marco Panascia, Joe Martin, Joe Sanders, Furio di Castri and in 2017 he was selected to be part of the InJam Ensemble, that selected 10 young italian musicians to take part at the InJam project in Siena Jazz with the trombonist Glenn Ferris and the saxophonist Logan Richardson. He got a grant reward for the best students during the Siena Jazz summer courses.

He was invited to play at the doublebass European Convention Bass 2014 that took place in Amsterdam in the August of the same year and recently to the 2018 Edition that took place in Lucca.
He played with many classical orchestras and also collaborated with Italian Youth Orchestra of the Conservatories and the Swiss Jugend Symphony Orchestra. He plays also with the Accademia dell’Annunciata, a baroque orchestra where he plays a violone made by M° Cazzaniga. He was finalist in international competitions and won the first prize in the “Summa cum Laude” competition in Vienna; as a winner he performed in Musikverein and Koncerthaus.
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