Daniele Sabatani
Daniele Sabatani qualified with Distinction in Percussion Instruments at the "G. Nicolini" Academy of Music in Piacenza. His percussion teacher was Daniele Sacchi, and he also deepened his piano studies with Paolo Parmiani. He now plays as timpanist in the Bruno Maderna Orchestra of Forlì.
He collaborated as a percussionist and timpanist with the Arena di Verona Orchestra, the Teatro Comunale di Bologna Orchestra, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Sassari Instrumental Ensemble, the Wind Instruments Orchestra of Sassari and the Orchestra Filarmonica di Roma. Over the years, he has worked with the Ravenna Festival Foundation and with arrangers and composers such as Stefano Nanni, Guido Facchini, Gianmarco Gualandi, Ezio Monti, Marco Versari, Maurizio Pica, Carlo Crivelli, as well as pianists like Mauro Landi, Stefano Orioli, Elena Valentini, Olaf Lanieri, Stefano Bollani and Walter Orsinger.
As a drummer, he collaborated with vibraphonist Saverio Tasca, Marco Pacassoni, Filippo Lattanzi, Arthur Miles, and many jazz and blues groups, such as the Village Big Band during the 1998 Andrea Mingardi Summer Tour, the MoonCin Jazz Orchestra conducted by Stefano Nanni, and the "Bobby Solo Blues Band". He participated in several recording projects, including “Rospo” and “U.S.A e Getta” by the group Quintorigo, and “Ayrton” by Paolo Montevecchi, for Francesco Malapena, Michele Fenati and Roberto Bonaventura. He also recorded soundtracks for films by Carlo Crivelli. He collaborated with composer Luciano Sanpaoli for the premiere of the opera “Angelica Battaglia”.
He won the competitive exam organized by the Italian Ministry of Education to teach Percussion Instruments. In 1992/93 he taught at the Academy of Music in Monopoli and in 1994/96 at the Claudio Monteverdi Academy in Bolzano. Since 1996, he has been teaching percussion at the Bruno Maderna Academy of Music in Cesena, and since 1998 at the Vassura Baroncini School in Imola. Since 2004, he has also been teaching percussion at the Marco Allegri Summer Course in Castrocaro Terme. In recent years, he has been part of the Balafon Chamber Ensemble, performing in many renowned Italian theatres.
