Bio
Paris based jazz guitarist Federico Casagrande is considered one of the most influential European guitar player of the last years.
He started in early age the study of classical music in Italy. In 2003 he moved on a scholarship to Boston, U.s.a., where he attended the Berklee College of Music and graduated summa cum laude in 2006.
In 2007 he won the first prize at the Gibson Montreux Jazz Festival Guitar Competition with George Benson president of the jury.
He released 18 records as leader or co-leader.
His production goes from acoustic solo to electric trios and quartets.
Among others, notable collaborations on record are a duo with piano master Enrico Pieranunzi, a trio with Fulvio Sigurta and Steve Swallow and a duo with Francesco Bearzatti with whom he has been touring regularly for the past then years.
Since 2018 he’s a member of accordion virtuoso Vincent Peirani’s Jokers, a trio who has been touring extensively in Europe and U.S.
He has been recently nominated twice as finalist for European Musician of the Year by Academie du Jazz in France and among the best international guitar players by the press.
He performed in Italy, U.S.A., Canada, Australia, Denmark, Austria, Estland, Latvia, Portugal, Switzerland, France, U.K., China, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Vietnam, Belgium, Ukraina, Bulgaria, Macedonia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, Spain, Serbia, Romania, Ukraine, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Croatia, Azerbaijan.
Notable venues:
NYC Winter Jazz Festival
Montreal Jazz Festival
Ottawa Jazz Festival
Rochester Jazz Festival
Paris Jazz festival
Roma Jazz festival
Time in Jazz Festival
Hong Kong Jazz festival
Shanghai Jazz Festival
Germany symphonic halls tour
London Jazz Festival
Umbria Jazz
Melbourne Jazz Festival
Brisbane Jazz Festival
“A six string poet, he has everything to become one of the singular voices of contemporary guitar”
“This music is incredibly therapeutic”
“An unrestrainable talent”
“Astonishing guitarist, an inner music where the feelings bubble and condense in the essence of this terrestrial life itself”
“With his subdued play Casagrande proves progressive jazz guitar a great service and leaves note devouring colleagues like Montgomery, Burrell and Martino behind in the 20th century””
