Rita Marcotulli (born 10 March 1959) is an Italian

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pianist and composer.

Career

Born in

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, Marcotulli is the daughter of a sound engineer who collaborated with Nino Rota and

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, among others. She started playing piano at five years old and graduated in classical music from the Santa Cecilia Conservatory. Marcotulli began her professional career in the early 1980s and made her first recording in 1984. Thanks to a series of prestigious collaborations, including Richard Galliano,

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, Enrico Rava, Kenny Wheeler, Peter Erskine, and Steve Grossman, in a few years she established herself as an important figure in the contemporary jazz scene. In 1987 Marcotulli was nominated for the Best Young Talent Award in the NPR Music Jazz Critics Poll. In 1988 she toured in the U.S. and in Europe with Billy Cobham, also appearing in Cobham 's album ''Incoming''. In 1996 she duetted with

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at the

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. She has also had a long-term musical relationship with Dewey Redman. Marcotulli's style largely relies on improvisation, and her influences include Brazilian music, African music and Indian music. Also active as a composer of incidental music and musical scores for films, in 2010 Marcotulli won the

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for Best Score as well as the

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and the

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in the same category for the score of

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's ''

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''.

Discography

* ''The Woman Next Door'' (Label Bleu, 1998) * ''Triboh'' (Polo Sud, 2000) * ''Koiné'' ( Le Chant du Monde, 2002) * ''Oslo Party'' (

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, 2003) * ''L' Amico del Vento'' (Egea, 2005) * ''The Light Side of the Moon'' (Le Chant du Monde, 2006) * ''On the Edge of a Perfect Moment'' (Incipit, 2007) * ''Zapping'' (Egea, 2008) * ''Variazioni Su Tema'' (S'ARD, 2011) * ''Basilicata Coast to Coast'' (Alice, 2011) * ''La Conversazione'' (Abeat, 2013) * ''Paolo & Rita'' (2015) * ''TrioKala'' ( Nicolosi, 2016) With

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* ''Lampo'' (1998) * ''Altre Latitudini'' (Le Chant du Monde, 2003) With Michael Benita * ''Preferences'' (Label Bleu, 1990) * ''Soul'' (Label Bleu, 1993) With others * ''Nauplia'', Maria Pia de Vito (Egea, 1995) * '' In London'', Dewey Redman ( Palmetto, 1998) * ''Incoming'', Billy Cobham (1989)

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Marcotulli, Rita 1959 births Living people Musicians from Rome Italian jazz pianists Italian women pianists David di Donatello winners Nastro d'Argento winners Italian film score composers Women jazz pianists Italian women composers Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia alumni Label Bleu artists Pony Canyon artists