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High school certificate: Liceo Linguistico Internazionale, where she studied foreign languages. Professional Diploma in foreign languages (French and English) released by Scuola Superiore per Interpreti e Traduttori in Milano, where she followed a 3-year course. She also studied German. Vocal Technique, Theory and Solfeggio - Professional Certificate released by NAM in Milano, where she also specialized in stage-behaviour, diction, orthoepy and phonetics. She took voice lessons with Anna Bakja for two years at the SMUM Institute in Lugano, Switzerland, and practiced blues and jazz improvisation with Anna Bakja and Angela Baggi. She studied classical piano with Dorothy Mae Charles who was also her first voice teacher, and with Irma Pandolfi. She took harmony and jazz piano lessons with Claudio Pozzi.
She has been the vocalist of the Enos Patracchini Big Band until 2005, when Maestro Enos Patracchini suddenly died. With the Big Band she had gigs in Theaters and in clubs, such as the Gimmi's Club in Milan. She also participated to TV shows such as Telethon, with the Big Band, and sang for prestigious events organized by the Commune of Milano and various other Communes such as "Milano Estate" where the Big Band played in Piazza del Cannone at the Sforza Castle. She had the joy and honour of singing with artists such as Emilio Soana, Giancarlo Porro, Riccardo Vigorι, Umberto Marcandalli, Massimo Patracchini, Mario Cavallaro, Pippo Colucci. The musicians of the Enos Patracchini Big Band with whom she shared the stage for seven years are: Diego Lambertini, Wolf Ekkhart Sillem, Luciano Guerrieri, Martino Pozzi, Paolo Lopolito, Paolo Rebulla, Costanzo Laini, Andrea Baroldi, Paolo Bulgheroni, Pietro Maiocchi, Francesca Belcastro, Massimo Patracchini, Lewis Edward Short, Sergio Chieregato, Bruno Manzini, Germano Sigolo, Anna Bettoni and Giorgio Chiari. She has been the vocalist of the "Original Garden Jazz Band" for seven years. She collaborated for years with "Guitar Club" and "Drum Club" magazines. Voice and Vocal technique instructor at Gynmusic (Paderno Dugnano, Milano) from 2000 to 2004. Director of the Voice Department and Vocal technique intructor at Accademia Vivaldi (Bollate, Milano). She also held professional voice classes at the N.A.M. School of Music in Milano. She is a member of A.I.C.I. (Italian Voice Teachers Association), which is in its turn a member of E.V.T.A. (European Voice Teachers Association). A.I.C.I. is also a member of I.C.V.T. (International Congress of Voice Teachers). She sings with Angela Baggi's Underground Gospel Project (contemporary gospel). With this vocal group, she participated to events such as "Acqua per l'Etiopia" (2004) at the Idropark Fila and to concerts held during the event "Una Notte per gli Angeli" in Piazza Duomo in Milan in December 2003 and 2004. In December 2004 a film and recording of U.G.P.'s live performance was included in a box containing a DVD and CD of various Gospel Groups which participated to this prestigious event. Eva Simontacchi recorded, with other artists, the vocals in the U.G.P. demo which was recorded at the LOGIC Studio of Carmelo La Bionda. (2003) She collaborated on stage or during recordings in studio with other professional artists such as Angela Baggi, Monica Magnani, Isabella Casucci, Jenny Tempesta, Elisa Rosselli, Ferdinando Di Martino, Claudia Bernath, Letizia Turrΰ, Sheu Tanimowo, Sagi Reitan, Yonatan Rukhman, Ranieri Di Biagio, Marlena Colecchia, Marco Guerzoni, Andrea Candido, Cristina Di Bella, Alice Edun, and many others. For the U.G.P. projects she collaborated with the following musicians: Andrea Pollione, Marco Mangelli, Salvo Correri, Marcello "Bread" Schena and Giancarlo Urso. File audio:
You don't know what
love is
She followed the Vocal Power Singing Method Workshop held by Elisabeth Howard (in the various styles: Blues, R&B, Jazz, Rock, Musical Theatre, etc.) organized by the Italian Voice Teachers Association (A.I.C.I.). 2003 She organizes a stage behaviour workshop
with Silvia Beillard at Accademia Vivaldi in Bollate (Milan). Founder of the professional vocal group "4 Heaven & More", for which she follows the repertoire and the choir harmonizations with Giancarlo Urso and Ranieri Di Biagio. The singers in this project (apart from Eva Simontacchi) are: Claudia Bernath, Ranieri Di Biagio, Emanuela Gramaglia, Gabriele Rofi, Jenny Tempesta (vocals) and Giancarlo Urso (piano). "4 Heaven & More" has a repertoire of Gospel Classics and of traditional afroamerican spirituals, and some interesting harmonizations of classical pieces such as "Ave Maria" by Gounod and "Ave Maria" by Schubert. Eva Simontacchi writes interviews and reviews which are regularly published on-line by Jazzitalia (www.jazzitalia.net). Among the artists she interviewed we name: Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton, Kurt Elling, Lalah Hathaway, Amii Stewart, Jane Monheit, Jim Hall, Bruno de Filippi, Francesca Sortino, Angela Baggi, Marco Bianchi, Gigi Cifarelli, Claudio Angeleri, Laura Fedele, Francis Dreyfus, Marcus Miller, Amalia Grθ, Charles Lloyd, Marco Gotti, Take 6, Jay Clayton. Her articles are also translated in Russian and published by the bimonthly Jazz Magazine "Jazz-Quadrat". She often collaborates, for her interviews and reviews, with Alberto Gottardelli, photographer. A paragraph of her interview to Sheila Jordan for Jazzitalia has been quoted inside Sheila Jordan's front cover for the album "Believe In Jazz Sheila Jordan live with Serge Fortι Trio" (Ella Productions 2004), and she wrote a presentation for Sheila Jordan's album "Straight Ahead", recorded in Italy with E.S.P. Trio (Cipelli, Zanchi, Cazzola Special guest Paolo Fresu) which is printed inside the cover of the CD (2005). Voice and Vocal Technique program: it may be read in the Italian version of this page Contacts and Information:
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Bilingual
She carried out her studies at the International School of Milan, Oxford Institute
in Milano.
She
followed various workshops and seminars (gospel and black music, jazz, improvisation,
vocal technique) and is constantly keeping up-to-date on subjects concerning vocal
training, vocal technique, jazz music and teaching.
