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He was born in Catania in 1964 and achieved the clarinet diploma at the Conservatory "Vincenzo Bellini" of Palermo in 1984. His career is very wide and interesting because he has played with many Italian and strangers players and his activity as a saxophonist isn't only related to jazz music but also to ethno music, art music and contemporary music. In 1982 is the 1st Sax alto in Reinhardt Jazz Studio of Palermo that was directed by Claudio Lo Cascio. In 1983 he founded, together with other Sicilian players, The Brass Group Big Band (actually called Orchestra Jazz Siciliana) From 1984 to 1986 he performed with Paolo Lepore, Mel Lewis, Sam Rivers, Ernie Wilkins, Tony Vella, Toshiko Akijoshi, Gil Evans and Bob Brookmeyer.
In 1989 (March) he started touring with the "Orchestra Jazz Siciliana" in the Czech Republic where they performed for the Czech Television, for the Italian Embassy, in the Praha Eden Hall, in the Kum Kultury of Liberec and during the International Festival of Karlovy Vary. In the same year he joined the first Italian performance of Duke Ellington's "Queen's Suite" directed by Bob Wilber. In May he cut the record "OJS play the music of Carla Bley" with Carla Bley, Steve Swallow and Gary Valenti.
In the same year he also performed with Joan Baez during the festival "Un Rublo per l'Armenia" in Modena. In 1990 (January) he played in Italian Jazz Clubs with the pianist Giuseppe Emmanuele's quartet with whom he cut the record "Reflection in Jazz". In June he began a tour with the Orchestra Jazz Siciliana with Marlena Shaw, Vesta Williams, Denice Williams, Linda Stokes and Jackie Bell as singers. In December he took part to Tom Harrel's concert in Catania. In the same year (October) he started teaching in the music school "Progetto Suono" in Messina. In 1992 (February) he joined the first European Performance of the opera "Epitaph" by Charlie Mingus directed by Gunther Schuller. In April he played with the lyrical singer Gail Gilmore and the trumpeter Jack Walrath. In the October of the same year he recorded the album "Canzoni d'amore" by Francesco De Gregori and performed during his summer tour.
During the summer he played with Francesco De Gregori and recorded the album and the video "Il Bandito e il Campione". In 1993 he played, once more, Francesco De Gregori's tour and recorded the album "Bootleg".
In 1994 he played with Dusko Gojcovich during the San Vito Lo Capo Jazz Festival and in November he performed with the Orchestra Jazz Siciliana directed by Pete Rugolo. In 1995 (January) he performed in a trio composed by Gaetano Randazzo (piano) and Gabriella Costa (soprano) playing Michael Nyman's music. In April he gave some concerts with the Orchestra della RAI of Rome directed by Bruno Canfora with music by George Gershwin and then with the Orchestra di Musica Contemporanea (OMC) of Palermo performing music by Gaetano Randazzo, Giovanni Sollima, Cesare Picco, Alberto Giraldi, Carlo Galante, Igor Stravinsky (Ebony Concert) and Leonard Bernstein (Prelude-Fugue and Riffs for Clarinet and Jazz Ensemble). In July he accompanied the singer Michael Allen together with Pietro Tonolo during the Jazz Festival "Utopia '95" in Vibo Valentia. In October of 1995 he played with the American composer/pianist Michael Torke, performing the prima of the composition "Flint".
In February of the same year played with the suite "Porgy and Bess" by George Gershwin with the OJS (arrangement by Gil Evans for Miles Davis) directed by Gunther Schuller and with Paolo Fresu as trumpeter. In July he joined the Carini's Jazz Festival with Vinum de Cupa quartet and in August played in Sicily with the Palermo's OMC.
In the summer of 1998 played with Bob Mintzer, Bill Russo, Vinicio Capossela, Lino Patruno, Rachel Gould and others. In 1999 (January) he played as solist in the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini of Catania for Modest Mussorgsky's "Quadri di una esposizione" (orchestration by Maurice Ravel) directed by Donato Renzetti. In February he toured Belgium with the "Sassofonisti del Mediterraneo", and durino his staying in Brusselles he palyed together with the drummer Bruno Castellucci. In March performed with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini di Catania, George Bizet's "L'Arlesienne, suite n°1" (as alto sax solo) Maurice Ravel's "Bolero" (soprano sax solo) directed by Marc Soustrot.With the same orchestra he executed some George Gershwin's pieces (as tenor sax solo) directed by Giuseppe Garbarino. In the summer of 1999 he took part to many concerts with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Arturo Sandoval, Michelle Hendricks, Rossana Casale, Cesare Picco, Pietro Condorelli, Taberna Mylaensis and with the OJS directed by Frank Foster and Joseph Bowie. In 2000 (January and February) he took part to the performance of Nino Rota's ballet "La strada" with the Orchestra del Teatro Massimo Vincenzo Bellini di Catania directed by Marcello Rota.During the same year he accompanied many groups and singers such as Joy Garrison, OJS, Bonanova (etno-pop), Enrico Intra, Gianni Cavallaro, Joseph Bowie, Gigi Cifarelli, Lucio Dalla and others. In 2001 he started his collaboration with the FBI (dance-pop), and during the same year,together with Filippo Rizzo, he founded the group named "Ain't Nothing…But Jazz" (cool-dance). In april he toured Denmark with Tony Cigna (compser/drummer). During the summer he played with "Ain't Nothing…But Jazz" and Massimo Melodia. From cool-dance to lounge-music and from blues to etno-folk music. In 2002 started touring Denmark and Sicily with Luciano Maio Taberna Mylaensis), Trio Lounge, FBI, Vincenzo Mancuso Group, Massimo Melodia,Giovanni Mazzarino Quintet, Angelo Morabito & Angelo Castellana (blues band) and Art Perry Enseble. In 2003 (January) he
took part to "Philips Dubai Jazz Festival" with
Antonella
Consolo &
Giovanni
Mazzarino Ensemble (Giuseppe Vasapolli, George
Robert,
Fabrizio Bosso,
Marco
Tamburini, Roberto Rossi,
Stefano Senni,
Enzo Zirilli). In March he toured Hungary and Italy
with Vinum De Cupa Quintet/Quartet (Mauro
Schiavone,
Orazio Maugeri,
Bernardo Viviano,
Igor Ciotta
&
Giuseppe Urso)
and Silvia Droste Quintet. During the summer of the same year he played
with Loungeness, Vincenzo Mancuso Group, Laura Mollica,
Taberna Mylaensis, Romano Mussolini, Bonanova, Vincenzo
Palermo & Ana Flora, TrioQuasi, Loredana Spata,
Gianni Cavallaro, Toti Cannistraro, Marcello Pellitteri,
OpenJazzOrchestra. During 2004 he performed together with Laura Mollica, Vinum de Cupa, Affinita di Quarta, KillerLoop, Loungeness, Francesco Buzzurro, Gianluca Petrella, Giovanni Mazzarino, Marco Tamburini, Fabrizio Bosso, Sciàllaba Orchestra, Gianni Gebbia. In april he played in Giacomo Puccini's Turandot at Massimo Bellini's Teather (Catania) directed by Hubert Soudant. In June he performed with the "Orchestra del Teatro Vittorio Emanuele di Messina" in the musical Il Gatto Con Gli Stivali by Marco Tutino. In the summer of 2004 he performed with Mimmo Cafiero, Nello Toscano, Claudio Cusmano, Kathleen & Art Perry Ensemble, Vinum De Cupa, Dario Fisicaro, Loungeness, Affinità Di Quarta, Francesco Buzzurro, Salvatore Bonafede, TrioQuasi, BopCity, Rosalba Bentivoglio, Killer Loop. In september in Selinunte he took part of the realization of the Musical "Boccadoro" the traveller (international prima) by Massimo Sigillò Massara. In autumn he played with Marco Tamburini, Toti Cannistraro, Igor Ciotta, Enzo Carpentieri, Romano Mussolini, Tony e Francesco Cigna, Laura Mollica and Giuseppe Greco, Lelio Giannetto, Bonanova, Gianni Cavallaro, Affinità Di Quarta.
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Orazio
Maugeri is a Sicilian saxophonist. 
In
1987 he played at the Umbria Jazz Festival
with the Latin Jazz Band "Guna Band" and in 1988
he collaborated with Carla Bley and Steve Swallow during the
"Festival Internazionale del Jazz" in Sanremo (Italy).
From
July to November he was on tour with the Italian songwriter Francesco De Gregori
through Italy and Switzerland, after the tour 3 records were produced together
with a video called "De Gregori Live".
In
1992 he performed with Nathalie Cole,
Giorgio Gaslini (music by Gaslini), Marco Betta, Giovanni Sollima,
Marco Tutino, Ludovico Einaudi, Lorenzo Ferrero, Carlo Galante
and Mario Modestini.
Between
1993 and
1994 he performed with Romano Mussolini, Cinzia
Gizzi,
In
January of 1996 performed with the singer
Laura Fygi,
In
1997 he performed with the OMC,
I sassofonisti del Mediterraneo, Vinum de Cupa,
Jazz
sicilian collection Vol. 1 – Splasc(h) 
Angels
(Letizia Tomasino) – Panastudio 
Curve
nella memoria (Francesco De Gregori) –Sony Music 
