Carlo C.

Musician, songwriter and pianist from Treviso, born in 1970, started playing the piano at the age of fourteen began the study of classical music. Towards the end of the 80 starts as a keyboardist with the rock formations HSH in 1989 and founded the band, formation of experimental rock that has been fairly successful, he also won the first prize at the festival of independent video Monza, sec. Video clips, with their song "Televideo". For a year he was the pianist of the cabaret duo "Caffè Sconcerto" that took him around the northern Italy in various shows. In parallel to the experimental rock and cabaret, Colombo continues to study piano and approaches to jazz thanks to a grant from the EEC won in 1992 that led him to a full-immersion four months studying with world-class jazz musicians such as Harold Danko, Mark Egan, Vic Juris, Elliot Zigmund, Ares Tavolazzi, Bruno Cesselli and others. In those years he begins to perform as a jazz pianist in numerous local triveneto and founded the Carlo Colombo trio, a trio consisting of piano, doublebass, drums and vocals that plays the classic swing Italian: Conte, Carosone, Buscaglione and others along with original songs that form the backbone of shows offered. In 2002 he founded together with the DJ and producer Davide Benvegnù and bassist Filippo Tantino the electronic music group "Mind to beat" which publishes two discs. Beginning in 2002 he published under his own name four discs, two of which with the label Drycastle Records of Arezzo. From 2013 he is director and arranger of the project "Portobuffolè Swing Orchestra", a small eight-piece band featuring swing dance.