BIOGRAPHY
Guido Tongiorgi was born in Pisa in 1995.
He has been studying classical piano since the age of 9 at the G. Bonamici School of Music (Pisa), followed by maestro Ottaviano Tenerani, and graduating in Solfeggio in 2008 at the G. Puccini Conservatory of La Spezia. He later undertakes the study of jazz piano, playing piano ad keyboards in his teens for some local blues, jazz and progressive rock bands.
In 2014 he attended Pre-Academic courses at Siena Jazz University, studying jazz piano with maestro Simone Graziano. In 2015 he was admitted to the Academic Triennium of the Civica Scuola di Musica C. Abbado in Milan, where he studied jazz piano with maestro Franco D'Andrea and some great personalities of the Italian jazz music scene (Claudio Fasoli, Franco Cerri, Enrico Intra, Paolo Tomelleri). He joins numerous ensembles, playing in some clubs on the Milan scene and participating in three editions of the Break in Jazz Festival as pianist of the Big Band of the Civici Corsi di Jazz.
In the meantime, he became interested in applied music, composing the soundtracks for several independent short films and three plays: Uomini e Pietre (2017, based on a text by Mircea Eliade), Semmelweiss (2017, Fata Morgana Production) and C'era una volta la guerra (2018), produced by "Il Teatro di Emergency" and staged in numerous Italian theaters and festivals.
After earning his diploma in jazz piano in 2018, he moved to Rome, where he continued his studies by attending the Academic Triennium in Composition and Film Music at the Saint Louis College of Music, and at the same time obtaining with 110 cum laude a Master's Degree in Musicology at La Sapienza University.
He then deepens his path aimed at applied music, composing between 2019 and 2021 the soundtrack of several documentaries for the RAI program Geo&Geo; he is also a finalist with mention in the composition competition "Premio Vincenzoni 2020".
In the meantime, he continues his concert activity by participating as a solo pianist in the prestigious Pianoforte e natura 2021 Festival, organized by the Lingotto Musica association within the gardens of the Venaria Reale Palace, and is conductor during the Trevignano FilmFest 2021, where one of his original orchestral compositions is performed.
In 2022 he wrote and performed the music for the play Pasolini e le donne directed by Orlando Forioso, produced by TeatrEuropa and staged in Bastia (Corsica).