Gionni Di Clemente

Bio

GIONNI DI CLEMENTE
Unconventional musician, guitarist, composer and arranger, Gionni Di Clemente is a well-known multi-string performer and recording artist: 10-string classical guitar, 12 string acoustic guitar, oud, bouzouki, mandolin, sitar.

He performed his music extensively in a wide variety of international settings from jazz to contemporary classic to world music, in Italy, Spain, Germany, Romania, Hungary, Norway, Morocco, Algeria, South-Africa, Montenegro, Cile, Pakistan.

In July 2014 plays at 57° Festival Dei 2 Mondi in Spoleto with La Mama Theater of New York for “ Weather” composed and directed by Liz Swados.
Since 2009 he is the Art Director of Paesaggi Acustici Festival.

“Der Meister der Saiten aus den Abruzzen” (Peter Heid)
"Gionni Di Clemente is a specialist of all string instruments... he works out a personal, formative and improvised style, defined by the fusion of different expressive forms." (Renato Trevisani, Suono)
"Eclectic guitarist, passes with equal skill, technique and taste from guitar to sitar, the bouzouki, Oud .." (Percussioni, dic 2007)
“A record extremely intimate, elegant... Gionni Di Clemente is doubtless a receptive musician compared to musical traditions of the cultures very near to the ours…a music that goes at first through the heart and not only through the mind” (Achille Zoni, Jazzitalia)
“Personal and versatile musician, is very effective with the six strings” (Jazzmagazine )
Gionni’s mastery of finger techniques feature on his guitars such as in ‘Danza degli Spiriti’ ..perking the listener out of a slumber. (SOUTH AFRICA)