Most important concerts held by De Cecco - Jeszensky duo
- 2009: 8 December: Wolfsburg's Castle, Germany6 March: Fürth - Internationales Klezmer Festival
- 2008: 18 November: Wien, Austria - KlezMORE Festival (Gemeindezentrum der IKG)
16 November: München, Germany - Ars Musica im Stemmerhof
15 November: Stuttgart, Germany - Jazzclub Kiste
13 November: Gelsenkirchen, Germany - Bleckkirche
12 November: Kassel - Theaterstübchen
11 November: Duiburg - Steinbruch
18 September: Györ, Synagogue, Hungary
27 March: Café Blue, Venice
24 March: Taverna "Campiello del remer", Venice
23 March: Teatro Centro Giovanni XXIII, Belluno, Italy
9 February: Steinbruch Café, Duisburg, Germany
8 February: interview and gig on german TV channel STUDIO 47
31 January: Bathory Istvan Liceum, Cluj Napoca, România
31 January: Muzeul de arta, sala Tonita, Cluj Napoca, România
29 January: "Ai masnadieri" restaurant, Mestre, Venice
24 January: Italienska Kulturinstitutet i Stockholm "C.M. Lerici", Stockholm, Sweden
22 January: Palazzo Antonini, Udine University
21 January: Udine, private party. De Cecco - Jeszensky duo
15 January: "A più voci" on RadioRaiUno FVG
- 2007
12 November: radio session and interview for italian national RadioRai1 F.M. 94.9 . Radio program "Il suono di Pan" ("Pan's sound")
20,19,18 October: Istanbul Jazz Center, Istanbul, Turkey
28 July - 5 August: hotel Manoir Mignon, Câmpulung Moldovenesc, România
LEONARDO JESZENSKY: violin, stroh violin (vioara cu goarna), bracijeszensky@hotmail.com A 34-year-old violinist of Hungarian - Brazilian extraction, Leonardo Jeszensky graduated in Composition from the University of Campinas, Brazil; he attended for 4 years the Magyar school of popular music "Obudai Népzenei Iskola", Budapest; and then had a degree in traditional Hungarian music at the music college of Nyiregyhàza.
He played in the Youth Orchestra of Sao Paulo for 10 years.
He composed some pieces for contemporary dance and for the theatre, which were performed in Campinas.
In Brazil he performed for 5 years with guitarist Eduardo Agni and his ensemble.
With the traditional Transylvanian music ensemble "Furészelo Banda", he performed in many places in Hungary and recorded a CD ("Furészelo Banda").
He did organological research on string instruments in the world and on the French composer Francois Bayle.
He has been visiting Romania for five years, and has made thousands of recordings in Transylvania, in the Campia areas; his interest is mainly focused on the comparison of the dance genre called "de a lungu".
With Giovanni De Cecco he is touring in many cities and countries (Italy, Romania, Hungary, Sweden, Germany, France, Turkey.), playing mostly gypsy and klezmer music from Romania. The duo recorded the album "Traditional music from Romania", now available from september 2008.
GIOVANNI DE CECCO: piano, organ giovannidececco@giovannidececco.com
He graduated in Philosophy and in Piano in Venice.
In Romania he absorbed from Tzigane bands many of the themes which he loves to reinterpret in the concert halls. This love was reciprocated by the artists and the Romanian government, who often invited him to perform and represent Romania together with Romanian artists: he performed in the presence of the former President of Romania Iliescu in the Presidential Palace, Bucharest; in 2004 at the Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, he performed in the special concert held to celebrate the National Holiday of Romania (broadcast live on Telepace channel and National Romanian television TVR Cultural); in Vienna for the upcoming entrance of Romania into the European Union; in Prague at the Romanian Embassy and Saint Nicolas' church; in Japan in the presence of new Romanian President Basescu for the international Aichi Expo in June 2005 (broadcast live on Japanese Radio I) and in Nagoya and Tokyo in September 2005.
He also performed in other important concerts at Reduta Jazz Club in Prague, and recently with Jeszensky in Istanbul (Istanbul Jazz Center), Italian Cultural Centre in Stockholm, Art Museum in Cluj Napoca Romania
.mob.: (+39) 347 1581706 (Italy)
