Corciolli

Brazilian composer, keyboardist, and producer Corciolli is acclaimed for his genre-bending brand of ambient soundscapes, progressive classical, and textural orchestral music. Since founding his own Azul Music label and debuting with All That Binds Us in 1993, Corciolli has garnered a loyal following. His albums display his wide-ranging taste, including exploring sacred Tibetan music, Gregorian chants, and prog rock, as well as African, Middle Eastern, and Brazilian sounds alongside European traditions, as on 2019′s Imaginary Brazil. He has also composed contemporary classical works like the 2021 solo piano release Silent Worlds and many themed new age albums, and composed for film and TV soundtracks.
Born in 1968 in São Paulo, Corciolli began taking piano lessons in his teens, studying classical, as well as pop music, harmony, and improvisation. He participated in many bands and solo projects and turned to jazz music as well as the typical South American styles such as bossa nova. After buying his first synth (a Roland Juno-106), he played in several festivals with innumerable rock and instrumental alternative bands of São Paulo such as Banda Azo and Celso Pixinga. With the group Espírito Cigano, Corciolli played several shows all over Brazil. After eight months, he left it in order to dedicate himself totally to his solo career. After graduating in architecture, he founded the Brazilian record company Azul Music in 1993 and issued his first solo album, All That Binds Us. He also began releasing albums by other artists, eventually taking home the Sharp Award and the Internacional Award Design for his work on Ed Ribeiro Lima’s 1994 album Girassol.
In addition, he produced compilations for several Brazilian magazines such as Isto É, Planeta, Planeta Nova Era, snf AudioNews, among others.
In 1995, Corciolli released Unio Mystica, which found him working with soprano Adriana Mezzadri and exploring Gregorian chants and Middle Eastern sounds. This album received the Blessing of Pope John Paul II, earning him yet more attention in Europe. In 1996 he performed at Memorial da América Latina and recorded an album with the Tibetan Monks of Gaden Shartse, uniting sacred chants from the Buddhist traditions and western music, which was featured on 1997′s The New Moon of the East.
He also took part in a compilation called The Healing with Vangelis, Kitaro and Enigma, among others; he appeared on others as well. His Tudo Azul series was released in the Ukraine and Russia.
Corciolli continued to explore a variety of orchestral and new age sounds, releasing albums like 2009′s Lightwalk and 2015′s Infinito, while 2017′s Ilusia was an exploration of symphonic progressive rock. He also moved into soundtrack work, scoring various documentary programs as well as films like 2011′s O Filme Dos Espíritos and 2018′s Tais & Taiane. In 2019, he pulled all of his varied influences together for Imaginary Brazil, which found him composing for piano, violin, and cello, as well as a large orchestra. Futura, with Italian violinist Emmanuele Baldini, appeared in 2020, and Corciolli’s solo piano album Silent Worlds was released in 2021. ~ Matt Collar & Cesar Lanzarini