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Riccardo Scivales
Riccardo Scivales composer
Pianist / keyboardist, piano teacher and musicologist Riccardo Scivales is one of the most internationally appreciated authors of music books and transcribers of stride, jazz, and Latin piano solos. Following his critically acclaimed and still steady-selling collection of transcriptions Harlem Stride Piano Solos published in 1990 by Ekay Music of Bedford Hills (New York), more than twenty other of his piano methods, collections of transcriptions, original compositions and musical essays have currently been published by Ekay Music and by Neil A. Kjos Music Comp., Soliloquy Music, EDT, Mela Music, and Pizzicato. His most recent books such as the instant best-selling method Jazz Piano: The Left Hand and the miscellaneous collectionJazz Piano: Pieces To Grow On has been released as part of the prestigious Steinway Library of Piano Music line published by Ekay Music / Steinway & Sons. (More details in MUSIC BOOKS) He has also translated and edited all the thirty-four Italian volumes of the Bastien pedagogical piano series (Neil A. Kjos Music Company / Italian distribution Rugginenti Editore).
Some of Riccardo's "Classic Latin" originals have been often performed in concert programs along with works by Piazzolla, Ginastera, de Falla, Rodrigo, Ponce, Gardel, Ellington, Gershwin, JS Bach, Schubert, etc. Click here
He is keyboardist and composer of his own progressive rock band Quanah Parker , first active in 1982-1985 and re-formed in 2006 along with Giovanni Pirrotta (electric guitar), Andrea Cuzzolin (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Giorgio Salvadego (bass) , and Paolo Ongaro or Massimiliano Conti (drums). With this band, he performs his own originals and covers by Yes, Rick Wakeman, and Jethro Tull (More details and DOWNLOADS at www.quanahparker.it). Quanah Parker has released a Demovideo DVD (2007) and the CD Quanah! (2012, Diplodisc dpl 004, co-produced with Alessandro Monti), both of them reviewed very favorably.
Riccardo was born in Venice (Italy) and currently resides in the nearby town of Musile di Piave. He studied classical piano, percussion and music theory with Giuseppe Marotta, then classical piano with Giovanni Ferrari and jazz piano with Marcello Tonolo, also attending the courses on analysis of jazz music held by Marcello Piras at the Seminari Senesi di Musica Jazz. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Venezia with a degree in Music History discussing a thesis on the Harlem Stride Piano style.
He is the author of several jazz, Latin and Progressive Rock piano transcriptions, studies, arrangements and original pieces published in the prestigious US music magazines Piano Today, Sheet Music Magazine, Keyboard Classics, and The Piano Stylist & Jazz Workshop. For several years, he was a regular contributor to Piano Today magazine and served as a consulting editor of both Piano Today and Sheet Music Magazine. Many of his stride piano transcriptions have been recorded and / or performed in concert programs by such specialists as Marco Fumo, Alan Feinberg ( Fascinatin 'Rhythm , Argo 444 457-2), Meral Guneyman ( Nostalgia , Allegro, G&T Records), Donna Coleman ( Havana To Harlem , ABC Classics 476 7743), Massimiliano Damerini (George Gershwin - The Complete Piano Works , Musiksträsse MC 2106.2; Agorà AG 235.2), Sue Keller, Giannantonio Mutto, Cesare Poggi, Carlo Magni, and John Roache. Several transcriptions (Dick Wellstood, Fats Waller, Willie "The Lion" Smith, James P. Johnson, Cliff Jackson, and Donald Lambert) from his books Harlem Stride Piano Solos and Dick Wellstood Jazz Piano Solos can be heard at Irwin's Ragtime / Stride / Swing / Novelty MIDI and John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library websites. (More details in PIANO TODAY, TRANSCRIPTIONS, and COMPOSITIONS)
As arranged by tango pianist and arranger Giannantonio Mutto, many of Riccardo's Latin compositions are performed by the classical chamber ensembles Quartetto Note Insolite, Duo Giannantonio Mutto-Leonardo Sapere, and Quintetto Pianoforte e Archi. Other piano originals by him are performed by Giannantonio Mutto and by the Marguerite Faulds-Diane Köenig piano duo. Click here
Some of Riccardo's "Classic Latin" originals have been often performed in concert programs along with works by Piazzolla, Ginastera, de Falla, Rodrigo, Ponce, Gardel, Ellington, Gershwin, JS Bach, Schubert, etc. Click here
He is keyboardist and composer of his own progressive rock band Quanah Parker , first active in 1982-1985 and re-formed in 2006 along with Giovanni Pirrotta (electric guitar), Andrea Cuzzolin (lead vocals and rhythm guitar), Giorgio Salvadego (bass) , and Paolo Ongaro or Massimiliano Conti (drums). With this band, he performs his own originals and covers by Yes, Rick Wakeman, and Jethro Tull (More details and DOWNLOADS at www.quanahparker.it). Quanah Parker has released a Demovideo DVD (2007) and the CD Quanah! (2012, Diplodisc dpl 004, co-produced with Alessandro Monti), both of them reviewed very favorably.
Riccardo was born in Venice (Italy) and currently resides in the nearby town of Musile di Piave. He studied classical piano, percussion and music theory with Giuseppe Marotta, then classical piano with Giovanni Ferrari and jazz piano with Marcello Tonolo, also attending the courses on analysis of jazz music held by Marcello Piras at the Seminari Senesi di Musica Jazz. He graduated summa cum laude from the University of Venezia with a degree in Music History discussing a thesis on the Harlem Stride Piano style.
He is the author of several jazz, Latin and Progressive Rock piano transcriptions, studies, arrangements and original pieces published in the prestigious US music magazines Piano Today, Sheet Music Magazine, Keyboard Classics, and The Piano Stylist & Jazz Workshop. For several years, he was a regular contributor to Piano Today magazine and served as a consulting editor of both Piano Today and Sheet Music Magazine. Many of his stride piano transcriptions have been recorded and / or performed in concert programs by such specialists as Marco Fumo, Alan Feinberg ( Fascinatin 'Rhythm , Argo 444 457-2), Meral Guneyman ( Nostalgia , Allegro, G&T Records), Donna Coleman ( Havana To Harlem , ABC Classics 476 7743), Massimiliano Damerini (George Gershwin - The Complete Piano Works , Musiksträsse MC 2106.2; Agorà AG 235.2), Sue Keller, Giannantonio Mutto, Cesare Poggi, Carlo Magni, and John Roache. Several transcriptions (Dick Wellstood, Fats Waller, Willie "The Lion" Smith, James P. Johnson, Cliff Jackson, and Donald Lambert) from his books Harlem Stride Piano Solos and Dick Wellstood Jazz Piano Solos can be heard at Irwin's Ragtime / Stride / Swing / Novelty MIDI and John Roache's Ragtime MIDI Library websites. (More details in PIANO TODAY, TRANSCRIPTIONS, and COMPOSITIONS)
As arranged by tango pianist and arranger Giannantonio Mutto, many of Riccardo's Latin compositions are performed by the classical chamber ensembles Quartetto Note Insolite, Duo Giannantonio Mutto-Leonardo Sapere, and Quintetto Pianoforte e Archi. Other piano originals by him are performed by Giannantonio Mutto and by the Marguerite Faulds-Diane Köenig piano duo. Click here
