English Bio

GIGI MORELLO’S CV


Gigi has been present in the musical scene as musician and music teacher, has drummed every kind of music, working with musicians of several nationalities and musical infuence playing live, in studio, theatre, Radio and Television. Starting professional career at 18, he has now experience in playing and teaching of more than a quarter of a Century.

MUSIC EDUCATION

He studied privately drum technique with Giorgio Gandino (Percussion Chairman at Teatro Regio di Torino),  then he gets a degree under him at Civic School of Music of Turin, he studied privately with Bruno Astesana (Berklee Alumnus with honors) at the “Centro Jazz di Torino” and with Walter Calloni at “Centro Professione Musica”of Milan (CPM).
He also attended Music classes and Big Band style with Prof Marco Siniscalco (Berklee Alumnus), Alfredo Ponissi (famous Italian Jazz Sax Player, composer and arranger) and Tony Mimms (Composer, Orchestra Director and Arranger of some of the most known Italian Pop Artists of 1970-1980).
He studied  theory and harmony with Prof. Bruno Astesana at the Civic School of Music of Turin.
He attended to several seminaries of known drummers in Italy and in the US where he lived from 2000 to 2006. He studied privately Advanced Groove Interpretation with  Sergio Bellotti, Berklee Music College of Boston, Advanced Tenciques with Marco Minnemann and Soloing and Improvisation with Marko Djordjevich (Drummers Collective of New York). He studied the “freehand tecnique” privately with  Johnny Rabb. And he studied with Dom Famularo, one of the greatest authority on Drum Tecnique Planetwide.

AS A DRUMMER

With the band “Clamour” he performed in italian TV shows such as Festivalbar, Sanremo Rock, Disco Verde, Freeshow Estate and various other television shows broadcasted on Italian TV stations such as RAI 1, 2 and 3, Canale 5, Italia 1 and others.
He performed live with the italian singer Claudio Baglioni and performed on tour with the singer/showgirl Jo Squillo.
As soloist drummer he performed at the Italian national television show “Partita Doppia”, under the direction of Pippo Baudo, along with the Orchestra of the RAI Italian Television, directed by Maestro Pippo Caruso.
He also played live at the “Gran Gala’ di RAI 1”, with the Big Band of RAI Italian Television.
With the Theatre troupe “Teatro Studio” he performed as musician and actor in the show “la Cimice” of Majakovsky.
He worked in several Italian recording Studios, as drummer, arranger and Sequencer/drum Machines programmer.
He has been the founder with the guitarist/composer Riccardo Moffa of the band  “Con/Fusion Funk Quintet,” and with this band wins the contest “THE BIG OF TORINOSETTE” launched by the Italian newspaper “LA STAMPA”, scoring number one in the Jazz-Fusion field.

With this band he entered the top ten at the “GRAND PRIX DU FESTIVAL JAZZ” of Aosta and enters the final stage at the Jazz Festival of Prato.
Again with Con/Fusion Funk wins the “Rino Gaetano” Prize and plays to the show “TOUCH DOWN” aired by RAI Italian National television.
With Con/Fusion Funk Gigi he performed live on Italian TV RAI with Fabio Treves (number one of Italian blues), Italian Bass Player Stefano Cerri and other Jazz and Pop artists.
With this band also wins the Milan selection of the “First review of Instrumental Music” as the best instrumental group.
With the Italian singer  Luca Strano he performed at the show conducted by Red Ronnie “Roxy Bar” on MTV.
For several years he plays in the latin band headed by Chico Moreno.
Gigi has only recently returned to Italy after a five years experience in the States where he has performed in Hollywood, Los Angeles, New York and San Francisco
Recently he has concencentrated his efforts on educations but nevertheless continued to play with famous italian musicians such as Max Marcolini (Zucchero’s guitar), Eric Daniels (Natalie Cole, Paul Young, Zucchero “Sugar” Fornaciari, Carl Anderson, Randy Crawford), Andrea Innesto (Vasco Rossi), Sergio Vastano (TV showman), Manolo (Gipsy King’s guitar) Alex Vaudano Band, and many others.

EDUCATOR

At the end of the Eighties he founds his Drum School, teaching Drums, reading and Polirythms Theory in several schools such as Dracma, Tenaxsound, Miles and Co, Rock Lab, Emergenza Musica, Rens Music etc.

In late 2009 opens up  the GM Drum School, an ambitious project unique in Italy: a huge Drum School where the best teachers and drummers of the world can come and give a complete understanding of drums from all possible viewpoints and for every style.

GM Drum School io one of the few  Italian school where you can learn correctly advanced tecniques such as heel toe, Flat foot, swivel tecnique, free hand tecnique, free stroke, push pull tecnique, moeller tecnique, Speed Development, Breakbeats, hybrid Rudiments, stickings, linear phrases etc.

The Drum School has several locations in Italy and the Central Headquarter that is devised to be the biggest Drum Teaching Structure in Italy, including 12 rooms, 18 Drumsets including 2 jazz and 2 double bass sets, Clinic Room, practice rooms, Theory Room, Electronic Room, recording studio, drum video recording facility, a room with mirrors and video recording of stick heights for drum tecnique etc.

The drum school features Italian and International events and Style lessons with some of the Best Drummers and Teanchers in the world and for Italy for each style and tecnique.

Gigi keeps a very busy schedule of Playing live and Drum Clinics Througout Italy, and as a tecnichal Translator for top International Drummers. He has been official translator for clinics of Jojo Mayer, Gavin Harrison, Dom Famularo,  Gavin Harrison, Marco Minnemann and many others. He also writes about drums, drummers and tecnique on two Italian Drum Portals: “www.Drumsportal.com” and “www.Drummershouse.net”.

In 2013 He had a big Teaching chapter for 4 months in a row on the Italian Magazine “DrumsetMag”.

Gigi Morello endorses ED Drum Drums, UFIP cymbals, Vic Firth Sticks, Evans heads, Trick Pedals, Powerclick Amplifiers, HQ pads, Fulmine Drumming Shoes and Powerfeet trainers.

www.gigimorello.com
www.gmdrumschool.com

www.youtube.com/gigimorello
www.facebook.com/gigimorellodrummer

Direction, television broadcasts and cinema

Gigi entered almost for Fun in the field of television broadcasting as a director, and worked as a director on the television programs “Rock in Town”, “Tu Come Noi”, “Voice in Town” and other broadcasts broadcast on broadcasters of all ‘Italy.

He has worked in several Cinema / TV projects produced by the New York-based “SIlvio Sardi Communications”, the company that produced the Oscar-winning film “The City of God”.

He also participates in the initiative Against bullying “the world of hope” which includes the film of the same name directed by Ettore Pasculli and is the director of the music video “A World for Us” soundtrack of the film.

Solidarity

Gigi has been involved for years on the humanitarian front, actively collaborating in raising funds for various charitable initiatives with various charitable entities including “L’Albero di Greta” and the Italian Red Cross for which in recent years he has collected about 17,000 euros in favor of earthquake victims di Amatrice and several thousand euros in favor of the earthquake victims of Haiti and the homeless of Turin for the project “A Heart without a Cabin”.

He receives a commendation and two high commendations from the Italian Red Cross.

Politics

During the period of the 2020 Lockdown Gigi begins to take an active interest in politics, he first founded a protest group on Facebook that reaches a few thousand followers called “Alleanza Anti Casta”.

The group was after closed because the protest does not meet, according to Gigi, a complete solution to the Italian social problems.

On July 4, 2020 he founded the Political Movement “American Dream – Italian Americanist Movement and actively dedicates himself to a policy of the Center, according to the original principles of the American foundation, which Gigi proves to be ALSO Italian based on historical data. www.sogno-americano.it

Gigi Morello is currently active in politics that is close to citizens neglected by the government.

Writer and Journalist

Gigi has written as a Music Journalist on various national and local newspapers.

Gigi starts writing books in 2020, starting with a first book of short stories using a pseudonym.

This is followed by the “Anti Caste Alliance” and “Enlightened Enlightenment for Dark Times” Both published in 2020 and all available in print and digital versions on Amazon.

In 2021 he began collaborating with the international newspaper “The Epoch Times”, writing articles in the Italian language version of the Information Network.

LIST OF MUSICAL COLLABORATIONS

SINGERS AND POP MUSIC

Arturo Marongiu (AU)

Cico Cicogna

Clamour

Claudio Baglioni

Elena Roggero

Giacinto D’Assisti

Jo Squillo

Marco Pavone

Marco Terzolo

Umberto Jervolino

Ariel

Julia

Marco Carena

Paolo Mieli (I Quelli)

Alex Gaydou

 

JUNGLE- DRUM AND BASS

Junglematch

Nexus2

 

BIG BAND

Alfredo Ponissi Big Band

Big Band Centro Jazz di Torino

Orchestra del Centro Professione Musica di Milano

 

TEATRO

Teatro Studio

Assemblea Teatro

 

JAZZ- FUSION

Massimo Camarca

Art Colaianni

Claudio Chiara

Dario Chiazzolino

Nico Di Battista

Tony De Gruttola

Con/Fusion Funk

Debora Lombardo

Maurizio Maniglia

Gualtiero Marangoni

Luigi Martinale

Riccardo Moffa

Paolo Ricca

Stefano Cerri

Travel Agency

Mario Zara

Micky Bianco

 

ORCHESTRAL

Al Caprone Bang

Billi Spuma e I suoi Gassati

Discomania

Eden Band

Mauro Agus Orchestra

Tony D’Aloia

 

RHYTHM AND BLUES

Alfrenico Band

Supisu Blues Benz

Steve Mahal et Mamma Live

 

TRIBUTE BANDS

1/2morfosi (Tributo Sergio Caputo, Swing)

Deviazione (Tributo Vasco Rossi)

Europa (Tributo Europe)

Sugarlive (tributo Zucchero)

 

ROCK

44 road

Alex Vaudano Band

Camaleunti

Compagni di Merende

Figli di Guttuso

Glamorama

Luca Strano

Mao

Puzzle

The Big One

Trombe di Falloppio

Week End

Flying on Delta

 

LATIN AND MEDITERRANEAN

Brother and Sister

Carlos and Esteban Sabor Latino

Chico Moreno

Gino Latino

Mascarpone Latino

Salsa a la Noche

Trasluz

 

BLUES

Puzzle

Rockalacoque

Treves Blues Band (Fabio Treves)

Walter Serri

 

FUNK

Balla Coi Lupi

Winter Wonderland Band

 

METAL

Alchemist

Creeping Death

Dogma

Hammersmith

Slash

 

WORLD MUSIC

Ornowails

E.S.P.

 

JAZZ

Alessandro Bioli

Alfredo Ponissi

Felice Reggio

Flavio Boltro

Jazz Travelers

Max Carletti Jazz Trio

Paolo Porta

 

REGGAE

Tere Deni (Africa)

 

COUNTRY

The Fuse

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