Scandinavia meets Italy. How strange and at the same time grandiose is that! Two seemingly opposing temperaments that are so similar in their love of music. They both like opera, the virtuosity in their playing and the humor.
For Stefano Bollani, music is a game to be constantly reinvented, a continuous quest that leads him to be inspired by masterpieces of the past, but at the same time to investigate the present. A path that has led him to improvise with great artists such as Chick Corea and Chico Buarque, as well as to collaborate with prestigious orchestras and explore contaminations with Brazilian music. And that now continues in the meeting with Finnish musician Iiro Rantala, a graduate in jazz piano from the Sibelius Academy and in classical piano from the Manhattan School of Music, leader of various ensembles and eclectic composer. Few jazz pianists have explored the art of solo playing as intensively and consistently as Iiro Rantala. What unites everything is Iiro Rantala's passionate way of interpretation and an enormous stylistic spectrum of expression between jazz, classical and pop. Live, Iiro Rantala impresses with his strong stage presence and the humorous stories between the pieces that are so typical of him.
