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Matteo Bonti

Italy

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Bio

Matteo is an electric bass and double bass player from Pisa, Italy. He studied double bass with Nino Pellegrini at Scuola di Musica G. Bonamici in Pisa, Piero Frassi, Ilaria Bellucci and Beppe Scardino. 

He attended SJU study program at Fondazione Siena Jazz, in Siena, studying with educators such as Daniele Camarda, Franco Fabbrini, Stefano Battaglia, Maurizio Giammarco, Giovanni Falzone, Achille Succi, Mirco Mariottini, Simone Graziano, Fabrizio Sferra, Alfonso Santimone. Moreover, he also attended SJU stages held by international musicians like Michael Blake, Steve Lehman, Dan Kinzelman, Justin DiCioccio, Greg Cohen e Logan Richardson. 

Matteo plays in a variety of Jazz, Latin and Funk bands, such as SuRealistas, Bengala, Sinedades, and with many musicians from Tuscany among which Andrea Pellegrini, Eugenio Corsaro, Dimitri Grechi Espinoza, Simone Padovani.