FEDERICO CASAGRANDE

Guitar and voice

Along with his sideman and leader live and recording activity in duo, trio or quartet (he released 17 records as leader/co-leader) Federico Casagrande has been performing solo concerts since 2006. From underground intimate venues to festival halls he has already fascinated audience of many countries.
His solo performances focus on the song form both when it is written or improvised material. Musical ideas are drawn into the guitar from all sort of styles; the counterpoint he has assimilated during years of classical training, the contemporary jazz language you can hear in his recordings, rock riffs and pop-like arpeggios are all mixed together in a performance that is at same time highly refined and filled with emotional pathos that reaches all kind of crowds.
Using digital effects and prepared guitar the variety of sounds he pulls out of the instrument add to the music an other dimension.

A Berklee College of Music graduate, Federico Casagrande lives now in Paris.
He started capturing attention in 2007 when he won the Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar Competition and since then the press has been acclaiming his unique approach to jazz guitar. Over the the years he has performed in Italy, U.S.A., Canada, Denmark, Austria, Estland, Latvia, Portugal, Switzerland, France, U.K., China, Taiwan, Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Belgium, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Germany.