Ivan Valentini

music to other forms of art, always proposing his own compositions.
He reinforces his musical activities by devoting time to Zen phylosophy.
He performed occasionally with Henry Threadgill, Mathias Ruegg, Bruno Tommaso, Steve Bernstein, Enrico Rava.
Long collaboration with Franco D’Andrea, Luca Perciballi, Roberto Dani, Tito Mangialajo, Giancarlo Bianchetti, Achille Succi, Michele Francesconi, Attilio Zanchi, Simone Guiducci, Marco Detto, Massimo Manzi, Enrico Merlin, Paolo Botti, Alberto Capelli …and others
Since 1987 he has been regularly performed in music and poetry in collaboration with the poets Alberto Bertoni and Enrico Trebbi. Occasionally with Maurizio Cucchi, Giovanni Giudici, Gianni D’Elia, Giancarlo Sissa, Giovanni Lindo Ferretti, Laura Betti, Emilio Rentocchini.
In the first 90ties he used to played with the italian song writer Vinicio Capossela.
For almost ten years he’s been collaborating with american dancer and choreographer Teri Weikel, creating music for Il Maestro e Margherita (with Antonello Salis), Atomi, Le città invisibili, Le ali dei sassi and realizing many improvised performances for solo sax and dance.
In 1996 his composition Paz was selected to be part of Andrea Pazienza unlimited anthology CDRom, which includes the whole artist’s production.
In April 2008 he presented his compositions included in CD Light and Darkness in a concert at the Peking University Hall.
Long collaboration with the bands Orchestra Spaziale and Cantodiscanto.