Festival
SEP. 7 - 10, 2023 ISERNIA (Italy)
The Tetracordo Festival is an event related to Tetracordo Academy courses that offers the opportunity to attend jazz ensemble and contemporary music concerts. For the 10th edition Tetracordo Festival will feature the Jazz Ambassador Ari Roland , the Chris Byars Original Sextet and contemporary composer Stépane Delplace.
N.B. The concerts will take place at Palazzo San Francesco in Isernia, located at 3 Piazza Marconi, and in case of inclement weather, an alternative venue will be Spazi Arte Petrecca at 180 Corso Marcelli.
September 7th 2023
Chiostro Palazzo San Francesco - 7:30pm & 9:30pm
7:30pm - Ari Roland & Friends | Jazz aperitif and jam session
9:30pm - Chris Byars Original Sextet | "One Hundred Years From Today” a time capsule of gratitude, this suite of originals dedicates specific tunes to composers and musicians who have influenced the band’s lives
September 8th 2023
Chiostro Palazzo San Francesco - 7:30pm & 9:30pm
7:30pm - Ari Roland & Friends | Jazz aperitif and jam session
9:30pm - Chris Byars Original Sextet | “On the Shoulders of Giants” is music dedicated to and featuring each member of the band
September 9th 2023
Chiostro Palazzo San Francesco - 7:30pm & 9:30pm
7:30pm - Ari Roland & Friends | Jazz aperitif and jam session
9:30pm - Chris Byars Original Sextet | “Rhythm and Blues of the 20s” is a reshuffling of Blues and Rhythm Changes forms into modern structures
September 10th 2023
Chiostro Palazzo San Francesco - 9:30pm
9:30 pm - Stephane Delpalce and Tetracordo Orchestra | Commemorating September 10, 1943. World Premiere of 'La Nenia,' a new musical composition by composer Stephane Delpalce, presenting a piece commissioned by the Comune di Isernia.
Ari Roland Quartet
The Ari Roland Jazz Quartet is a New York City-based Jazz band inspired by the great masters of Jazz-Louis Armstrong, Duke Ellington, Billie Holiday, Charlie Parker, and Dizzy Gillespie. The quartet performs songs from the 1930s to 1950s Golden Age of Jazz as well as their own original compositions. In addition to performances in New York and elsewhere, they have directed international Jazz programs that bring together musicians from around the world
Stéphane Delplace
Stéphane Delplace is a contemporary French composer residing in Paris with a firm belief that tonal/functional music hides a wealth of unexplored regions. A member of the Phoenix Group, Professor of "Ecriture" at the Conservatoire and the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, he received the Florent Schmitt Prize from the Académie des Beaux-Arts. His works have been performed in France, Germany, Italy, Greece, Turkey, China, and the United States. Stéphane Delplace is published by Editions Durand, Eschig, Billaudot and Delatour, and is currently engaged in an intense international concert activity in order to promote his most recent works for solo piano.