Giulio Granati

My name is Giulio, Musaik is the name of my new band (www.myspace.com/musaiksextet).

I was born in Rome (Italy) on December 27th 1956. When I was 6 years old, I started studying piano. At the age of 16 years kept on studying the pop, rock and jazz music. My versatility gave me the chance to live the music working in lots of different situations and ambiences.

During 80th I moved to Germany where I dedicated my self more to the jazz music, studying and working with different local musicians. When I came back to Switzerland in 1983, I put together lots of different kind of bands, from the fusion music to the jazz music. To that period belong many bands like, Studio, Musaik (my first Musaik) and the little combos with musicians of the Italian scene. I can remember the trio with the guitar player Gigi Cifarelli and the double-bass player Paolo Dalla Porta.

In the second half of 80's I published a record called "Ad un amico" with the Many Rhythms & Blues Band. In those years I deepened the study of different instruments, with this new knowledge he had the possibility to develop what I liked the most: to compose and to arrange.

At the end of 80ths I had a stand by moment and I decided to go back to my European roots. From that moment starts my fruitful composition period. In that period came out the CD Cornici & Children's Songs (1989) and Alchimie (1991), both with the collaboration of the flute player Christian Gilardi. Another period of stand by came. To this silence followed a return to the jazz music.

In 1993 I created a trio with the drums player Ivano Torre and the double-bass player Marco Danese and in 1994 came out our first music work Across my universe. In the same period I recorded the third work with Christian Gilardi: "Note di poesia" and a record ties to a television show called "Hotel Fortuna". From the fusion of those two different situations born the second band called Musaik. With this band I published the CD "In town" At the end of 1998 from a session of the trio with Luca Garlaschelli as bass player and Francesco D'Auria as drums player born the CD "Live at the Principe Leopoldo".

At the beginning of 1999 the drummer Silvano Borzacchiello replaces Francesco D'Auria. One year later Riccardo Fioravanti replaces Luca Garlaschelli for a new CD recorded at the studios of the Swiss Italian Radio on 22nd 23rd may 2000 and published in October by the label ALTRI SUONI with the title "My first pairs of glasses".

On February the 10th 2001 I record my first piano solo CD titled "Dreams" for the Italian label MAP. On May 2002, as a quartet, I record for the label ALTRISUONI the CD "In The Mood", with Michael Rosen on Tenor and Soprano Saxophones, Stefano Dall'Ora on bass and Silvano Borzacchiello on drums, published in the spring 2003 . On may 2004 came out the second CD of the band: "Live at Moods", recorded in Zurich.

Between the end of 2004 and the beginning of 2005 I compose my first concert for jazz 4tett and orchestra "Miles in the sky" (www.myspace.com/milesdavisproject)and in the following months a suite for piano and orchestra entitled "Novecento".

In the summer 2006 I compose the second concert for jazz 4tet and Orchestra and in the autumn I start to work with the third group called Musaik (www.myspace.com/muaiksextet) and on december we record our first work: Sextet.