Sobre este artista
Marco Apicella (Rome, 08/06/1990) is a Jazz/Pop/Funk piano player and keyboardist from Italy, currently living in Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
He is involved in various different project such as piano trio, Hammond trio, fusion quartet, big band and the most promising DMC (Dutch Music Community), project that involves some of the best musicians in The Netherlands, and with which he shared the stage with Snarky Puppy, Jason Linder, Marcus Miller, Ed Motta and many more, and participated to the recording and the subsequent release party of their first album: DMC One. (Spotify, CD Baby)
In December 2014 he toured The Netherlands with the Netherlands Studenten Jazz Orkest, Playing in well known venues such as Tivoli Fredenburg (Utrecht) and Sugar Factory (Amsterdam).
In the same year he participated in the International Big Band Competition in Hoofddoorp with the Windmill Big Band and won one of the prizes as “Best Soloist”. Together with some of the best students from “Codarts”, he performed at the “North Sea Jazz Festival”.
In Rotterdam he plays weekly in the different venues all around the city and had the occasion to collaborate with some of the best singers of Holland ,such as Laura Fygi, Shirma Rouse, Stanley Alejandro Clementina, Poliana Vieira, Jared Grant and more. In 2015 he shared the stage with Bernard Fowler, backing vocalist and active band member of the Rolling Stones for over 25 years.
Marco plays piano since the age of 10 and studied classical piano in Rome Conservatory “Santa Cecilia”, Pop and Jazz Keyboard at the “Saint Louis College Of Music”, and he is currently Studying Jazz piano at Rotterdam Conservatory “Codarts”.