Enzo Favata plays soprano sax, sopranino and various ethnic wind instruments, in particular Sardinian ones; in his musical research he combines the arcane with the technological by experimenting with acoustic instruments, electronics and computer technology.
As a concert artist, after playing traditional jazz for a
few years, he has developed his artistic expression through various projects, one of which is the Jana Project, a group that includes well-known European musicians; with this group and with the Tangram Trio, another experimental group playing avant-garde contemporary jazz, Enzo Favata performs in important concerts in Italy, Europe and Japan.
He has had various acknowledgements from national critics, such as the RAI (Italian Radio & T.V.) "1991 New Music for Orion" award; he won the Tenco Prize for folk composers in 1989, together with the group Calic (he was playing with at that time); in 1995 he received an international award with the Tangram Trio at Poitiers, France, winning the biennial European Competition for Musical Improvisation. He is currently involved in various projects concerning both music for cultivated tastes and popular music.
His music is often used for sound-tracks for videos, films and dance sequences.
He began working for the RAI in 1989 as a composer of sound-tracks for radio dramas, documentaries and signature tunes. At the beginning of 1993 he made his debut as a writer of sound-tracks for films with the music for the German film set in Sardinia "Con amore ... Fabia", directed by Maria Teresa Camoglio and produced by Shram Films of Berlin; he repeated this experience in 1995 with the film "Il cielo è sempre più blu", directed by Antonello Grimaldi.
He continues to write sound-tracks for dance sequences, theatrical works and multimedial sets, and collaborates on various RAI programmes, broadcast on the national network.
Since 1990 he has been in charge of the music workshop of the
Associazione Archivi del Sud (Southern Archives Association) in Alghero, where he has carried out interactive projects, uniting various musical fields and collaborating with musicians from the Mediterraean area.
He began teaching in 1994 with courses to popularize this new language of music; he periodically holds musical appreciation courses in various places in Sardinia.
He is the Art Director of the TAM TAM International Percussion Festival, held in Alghero since 1993.
He has made various records which are on sale in Europe, the U.S.A. and Japan.
Breve profilo
Suona il sax soprano e sopranino e altri strumenti etnici a fiato soprattutto della Sardegna; la sua ricerca coniuga arcano e tecnologico, mediante la sperimentazione tra strumenti acustici e tecnologie elettroniche e computerizzate.
Come concertista, dopo aver suonato per alcuni anni jazz tradizionale, ha evoluto il suo linguaggio in vari progetti tra cui il suo JANA PROJECT, un organico che comprende musicisti di fama europea; con questo gruppo e con il Tangram Trio, altra formazione sperimentale nell'ambito del jazz contemporaneo d'avanguardia, Enzo Favata suona in importanti manifestazioni in Italia, Europa e Giappone.
Diversi sono i riconoscimenti della critica nazionale, tra cui il premio per nuove composizioni indetto dalla RAI "Nuove Musiche per Orione 1991"; nel 1995 ha ottenuto un riconoscimento internazionale a Poitiers (Francia), vincendo il biennale concorso europeo sull'improvvisazione musicale con il
Tangram Trio. Attualmente la sua collaborazione artistica lo vede coinvolto in vari progetti, sia di musica colta che extra-colta.
Le sue musiche sono spesso utilizzate per sonorizzazione di video, film, danza.
Dal 1989 ha iniziato a lavorare con la Rai come autore di colonne sonore per drammi radiofonici, documentari e sigle di programmi.
Agli inizi del 1993 ha esordito come autore di colonne sonore per film, firmando la musica di un film tedesco ambientato in Sardegna "Con amore ...Fabia" della regista italiana Maria Teresa Camoglio, prodotto dalla Shram film di Berlino; esperienza ripetuta nel 1995 con il film del regista Antonello Grimaldi "Il cielo è sempre più blu".
La sua attività come autore di colonne sonore continua tra musiche per danza e teatro installazioni multimediali e per la radio con varie collaborazioni con la RAI Radio Televisione Italiana in programmi a diffusione nazionale.
Dal 1990 è responsabile del laboratorio musicale dell'Associazione Archivi del
Sud di Alghero, presso il quale ha svolto lavori di interazione tra linguaggi differenti in campo musicale, collaborando con musicisti dell'area mediterranea.
Svolge attività didattica dal 1994 occupandosi di divulgazione dei nuovi linguaggi musicali; periodicamente tiene corsi di educazione all'ascolto e laboratori di musica ed immagine in diversi centri della Sardegna.
Ha registrato diverse opere discografiche; i suoi dischi sono distribuiti in Europa, Stati Uniti e Giappone.
La sua nuova produzione discografica dal titolo Ajò, uscita ad Aprile '97, lo vede insieme a Dino Saluzzi (uno dei grandi maestri del bandoneon argentino), in un disco dedicato alle storie
di emigrazione tra Sardegna ed Argentina.
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DISCOGRAPHY
1997 - Ajò, Enzo Favata Jana Project, Edizioni Robi Droli
1996 - Il cielo è Sempre più blu, Enzo Favata Jana Project, Venus
1995 - Islà, Enzo Favata Jana Project, Robi Droli for CGD (WEA IItn. Ltd)
1992 - Jana, Enzo Favata Jana Project, Il Ponte sonoro Ed.
1992 - Sonora 3, Various authors, Maso - Materiali Sonori
1991 - Stories, musics, songs, Various authors, Virgin Editions
1989 - Tangos de la tardor, D.D. Band, LMJ Editions
PARTICIPATION IN MUSIC FESTIVALS AND CONCERTS
- 1995
- March: Poitiers (France) "European Musical Improvisation
Tournament" - other concerts and festivals in Italy -
October: Ireland, "Wexford Opera Festival".
- 1994
- RAI Radio Channel 3: Chamber concert festival "Radiotre Suite" -
"Expò Cultura Barcellona" (representing Italy) - various festivals
and concerts in Italy.
- 1993
- "Jazz In' It", Modena (Italy) - other festivals in Italy -
"Beyond the Sea", RAI Radio Channel 3 (concert with
Mediterranean composers) - Berlin (Germany), "Improvisierter Musik ... Festival" -
Barcelona (Spain), "VI Mostra de Jazz Europeu" (representing Italy) -
various festivals and concerts in Italy - "Dringriglios e Trazos"
(original work producion inspired by Sardinian sacred polyphonic
music) with the "Cuncordu e su Rosariu" of S. Lussurgiu, F.Sanesi,
M.Peghin, R.Pellegrini
- 1992
- "Jazz in Sardinia" - "Jazz In' It", Vignola (Modena, I) - Tokyo
(Japan) - "24 Summer Jazz Fest" (only European group invited) -
"Interaction" (International Festival of Performances), Cagliari
(live music production with Tangram Trio to pictures of
Parajanov's movie "Saiat Nova") - other festivals in Italy.
- 1991
- "Time Zones", Bari - "Jazz Land", Rome (International Jazz
Festival) - "Ecologie 1991", Cagliari - "Cala Gonone Jazz Festival" -
"The Night of the Poets", Nora (Cagliari), theatre, music and
poetry - "S. Anna Arresi Jazz Festival" - other festivals in Italy.
- 1990
- "The Sax" (Carbonia), on programme with A.Shepp, T.Berne, D.Liebman, O.Coleman -
"Ecologie 1990", Cagliari - other festival in Italy.
- 1989
- "Jazz in Sardinia" - festivals and concerts in Italy.
- 1988
- "S. Anna Arresi Jazz Festival" - "Jazz Festival", Forlì - "Jazz in
Sardinia" - other festivals in Italy.
- 1987
- "Jazz in Sardinia" (Cagliari) - "S. Anna Arresi Jazz Festival"
(workshop production with the Art Ensemble of Chicago) - other
festivals and concerts in Italy
MUSICAL PRODUCTIONS FOR CINEMA, RADIO AND TELEVISION
- 1995
- Music for Antonello Grimaldi's film "Il cielo è sempre più blu"
presented on Berlino Cinema Festival 1996 for Fandango Colorado
Films (distributed in Italy by Columbia Tristar), next exit
in England in october - Signature tune and sound accompaniment to text for RAI National
Channel 3 programme "Suq - notes of the Orient"
- 1994
- "The night of the white whale", radio programme on Moby Dick
for RAI National Channel 3 - Music for documentary "The voice of the place", commissioned by
R.Barbieri of Lega Ambiente Italia (Italian Environmentalist
League) - Music for documentary "The caves and cliffs of the Capo Caccia
promontory", R.Barbieri
- 1993
- Music for Maria Teresa Camoglio's film "Con amore ... Fabia",
for Shram Films of Berlin (presented at the Monaco Filmfest in1994) - Music for the documentary "Meadows of Posidonia", R.Barbieri - Music for the serialized documentary "History of Sardinia", by
Maria Piera Mossa, RAI TV 3
- 1992
- Signature tune for the radio programme "Etno" for RAI 3 - Signature tune and sound accompaniment for "The people of the Janas" by E.Sanna (programme in 30 instalments
on the legends of Sardinia produced by RAI 3) - Documentary on multimedial set in S. Francesco Church, Alghero, produced by RAI 3 - "The bay of nymphs", nature documentary by R.Barbieri, Elba
prize-winner1992 - Various documentaries for RAI National TV
- 1991
- "The Memory of water" (fable for radio in 35
instalments by E.Sanna) produced by RAI 3 - Signature tune for radio programme "Origami", RAI 3
- 1990
- Signature tune programme "The Mailboat", RAI 3 - "Sonorous landscapes", 45 stories by E.Sanna for RAI 3
MUSIC FOR ADVERTISING
- 1992
- Music for the advertisement "S. Giuliano Oil" by Till Noeburg,
produced by Camera co. on behalf of DNA, Milan
AWARD, ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS & COMPETITIONS
1995, 1st prize "European Musical Improvisation Tournament", Poitiers
France (Tangram Trio) - 1994, Special mention Nosside Award with Adele Loriga Camoglio, musical poetry - 1993, Special mention Ricordi Award "Electronic Choreography" - 1991, Special mention Nosside Award, music for poetry - 1991, 1st prize "New Music for Orion", RAI radio Channel 3 - 1989, Tenco 1st prize for folk composers (with the Calic group) - 1988, 3rd prize (D.D. Band) "Outstanding Young Jazz Artists in Italy" competition, Forlì
- 1988, 1st prize "On the border between Sardinia and Jazz" competition, S. Anna Arresi Jazz Festival - 1987, Special mention (D.D. Band) "Porto Pino" competition, S. Anna Arresi Jazz Festival
MUSIC FOR MULTIMEDIAL SETS, VIDEOGRAPHS, THEATRE & DANCE
SEQUENCES
- 1995
- "Conas e majas" for the Fueddu & Gestu Company, based on texts
and rituals of Sardinian culture - Music for "A rebours" dance spectacular by Angela Torriani, based on Indian Nocturne by A.Tabucchi (Florence, I) - "They too have a soul", music for set commissioned by Sassari Fine Arts Academy - "S'alza malefica" theatre performance on the Argia ritual, for
Fueddu & Gestu with N.Nieddu - Music for "Frores" theatre show for Fueddu & Gestu Company
- 1994
- "Merchant's Ears" audio set and concert for Spazio Musica and
Quartu Council, sound elaboration on Quartu market sounds at
old Picci furnaces in a post-industrial structure (Quartu),
together with musicians R.Leone, M.Peghin, D.Piludu,
R.Pellegrini, D.Ledda and L.Garau - Music for "Multi-vision" video on Sardinian marine archaeology by Ernani Paterra, commissioned by Sassari Fine Arts Academy, at Archeologic Museum, Sassari
- 1993
- Music for video-clip of electronic dance "Reward Remind and
Forward" by F.Ferrari (special mention at 1993 Ricordi Award for
video dance) - Computer animation "Grande Ma Assente", Tonino Casula - Computer animation 30', Tonino Casula - Video concert with P.Fresu and Casula animations, Vignola (Modena) - Video concert set with P.Fresu and the gruop with Casula animations and luminous sculptures - "Fuori Luogo" set on Alghero beach for I.Panzino's work
- 1992
- "Orma Norma Forma", "transparency" for dance theatre,
commissioned by the Arte Laterale Company, Cagliari - Presentation of T. Casula's "transparencies" in Harare, Zimbabwe - Musical accompaniment to the "transparencies" in "ART EL"
exhibitio, national review of electronic art at the Council Gallery,
Cagliari - Presentation of the "transparencies" in various places in China - Set at S. Francesco Church Cloisters, Alghero with multimedial group composed of visual artists T.Casula, I.Panzino, A.Contini, G.Carta - Live music for a re-interpretation of Parajanov's film "Saiat Nova"
- 1991
- "Transparencies", T.Casula's computer graphics (visual artist): Pedda allena corria lada,
La luna di urano (1st prize "New music for Orion" RAI 3),
Mammai narat - Presentation of the "transparencies" at the Italo-American
museum of Los Angeles (U.S.A) - Music for "Mammai narat" by Clara Murtas, presented at the
"Night of the poets" at Nora, Cagliari - "Dentro Fuori" set at S. Francesco Church Cloisters, Alghero with multimedial group composed of visual artists T.Casula, I.Panzino, A.Contini, G.Carta
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