Riccardo Luppi is an Italian saxophonist and flutist, known for the groups Attilio Zanchi Quartet, D.O.M. Alia Orchestra, Daniele Cavallanti And The Milano Contemporary Art Ensemble, Giorgio Gaslini Proxima Centauri Orchestra, Grande Orchestra Nazionale Di Jazz (A.M.J.), Jazz Chromatic Ensemble, Larsen, Nexus, Paolino Dalla Porta Ensemble, Riccardo Luppi Ensemble, Riccardo Luppi Quintet, Riccardo Luppi Sextet, Riccardo Luppi's Mure Mure, Roberto Bonati Quartet, Tai No-Orchestra, Tiziano Tononi & The Society Of Freely Syncopated Organic Pulses, Yu Kung, and Wisdom Trio.

"I was born in Milan in 1971.

I began studying piano with my father Sergio, an orchestra conductor. In the first 16 years of my life I played different instruments (piano, guitar, bass, drums) in various local bands, creating a multi-instrumental background that influenced my way of playing and conceiving the guitar. From the age of 16 I dedicated myself exclusively to guitar and jazz, studying with Massimo Minardi and Roberto Cecchetto and participating in masterclasses with Pat Metheny, Bill Frisell and Mick Goodrick.

For more than twenty years I have also dedicated myself with passion and energy to teaching the guitar.

My style on the instrument shows my eclecticism and my tendency to easily pass through genres, such as radical improvisation, free avant-garde, live looping but also pre-war blues and the re-musicing of silent films.

I love the guitar in all its forms. I have always experimented directly on the structure of the instrument (I have a diploma in lutherie), I have approached and modified various types of instruments, including the fretless guitar, and I continue my research every day.

I have had the pleasure of collaborating with Marc Ribot, Elliott Sharp, Nels Cline, Carla Bozulich, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Jamaaladeen Tacuma, Rob Mazurek, Peter Evans, Gianluca Petrella, Steve Piccolo, Gak Sato, Leena Conquest, Xabier Iriondo, Giovanni Maier, Tiziano Tononi, Daniele Cavallanti, Jenny Scheinman, Zeno de Rossi, Massimo Pupillo, Giulio Corini, Piero Bittolo Bon, Craig Green, Scott Amendola and many others."

"Daniel Studer was born in Zürich in 1961, lived and worked in Rome from 1981 to 1995, is now living with his family in Zurich.Master of arts in Music Pedagogy, guest composer at the Elektronisches Studio in Basel, studied composition with Johannes Schöllhorn.2010 award from the city of Zurich.

His focus lies on improvisation and mixed forms of improvisation and composition. He participated in various projects involving space - and projects with live electronics; further fields of interest are music and language, music and dance, music and video poetry. The constant exploration of his instrument has led to performances as a soloist, too.For years he has been working with Peter K Frey, Mischa Käser, Katharina Klement, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Dieter Ulrich and Alfred Zimmerlin.Presently he is part of the Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey, Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin, III-VII-XII (with Mischa Käser and Urs Haenggli) and the trio Gabriela Friedli Trio.

Concerts and radio recordings in Europe, Japan and USA. Among others he played with Lester Bowie, Jacques Demierre, Michel Doneda, Paolo Fresu, Gerry Hemingway, Steve Grossmann, Barney Kessel, Hans Koch, Riccardo Lay, Joëlle Léandre, Magda Mayas, Mike Melillo, Evan Parker, Antonello Salis, Irene Schweizer, Tony Scott, Co Streiff, Sebi Tramontana, Massimo Urbani, Urs Voerkel, Bobby Watson and many others.

Records with the Kontrabassduo Studer-Frey, Kimmig-Studer-Zimmerlin, Giancarlo Schiaffini Quintet, Gabriela Friedli Trio, Solo, In Transit, Eichenbergers Domino, Day & Taxi, Käppeli-Lüscher-Studer, Streichtrio Coen-Penazzi-Studer on labels as Intakt,Unit Records, EMANEM, Konnex, Percaso, Creative Sources, Edition RZ.

Festivals: Controindicazioni Roma, Le Mans Jazz Festival, Südtirol Jazz Festival Bozen, Clusone Jazz, Ulrichsberger Kaleidophon, Unerhört! Zürcher Jazzfestival, Willisau Jazz Festival, Zoom in Bern, Schaffhauser Jazzfestival, Limmitantiones, Romaeuropa, Zürcher Theaterspektakel, World New Music Days, Honmoku Jazz Festival Yokohama, Jazz and more München, Siena Jazz, Progetto Musica Roma

He has been teaching improvisation at different music schools so at the Bern University of the Arts since 2006."