Nacci Alberto

Who is Nacci Alberto?

Alberto Nacci was born in Trapani in 1957. A "projectual musician", boasting long experience in the field of jazz, during the recent years he has moved onto boundary territories: he works for art, dance, theatre, videoart. From "solo-performance" to orchestra conduction, he collaborated with many of the major Italian and international jazz musicians, such as Giorgio Gaslini, Gianluigi Trovesi, Paolo Fresu, Enrico Rava, Pierre Favre, Franco D’andrea, Martin Dietrich, Joe Garrison, Tino Tracanna, Antonio Faraò, Arup Kantidas, a.o. He composed the music, produced video and directed a theatre performance, "La Via dell'Acqua, realized various musical projects and records, appreciated both by the public and the specialized press. He wrote and recorded music for the modern dance performances “Canali” and “Huis Clos”, with by Martine Bucci, “The Moving Sound” with choreography by Eugenio De Mello, “La Via dell’Acqua” with the actor Albino Bignamini, “Travolti”, with the actor Walter Tiraboschi, “Lighea”, theater-music performance with the actor Francesco Porfido. He participated in "Specchi d'Acqua", a contemporary art exhibition in which he presented his music on CD. The interest for the possible relations between different visual arts and the world of sounds, led him to the creation of "Suoni e Ombre", “Fording”, “Fireworks” with the photographer Dario Guerini, “The Colours of Black” with the great artist Mario Benedetti. The Moving Town with Senegalese percussionist Dudu Kwatech. He has collaborated with artist Morgan O’Hara and the English vocalist Sarah Frances for the performance “Live Transmissions”. He also collaborated with Roberto Ciaccio and Philip Corner to realize the videoart project “Clusters”. Alberto Nacci has been professor of Sound Projecting at Accademia Carrara di Belle Arti and LABA. His works are screened at some of the most important cinema and video art festivals around the world: FIREWORKS won Digifestival, Tam-Tam Digifestival and participated at EURONIGHT08, international video art event proposed by Italian Institute of Culture at Toronto. With THE COLOURS OF BLACK winner at 2008 Chicago Short Film Festival and received Mention Spéciale du Jury at Festival du Cinema de Paris. With THE MOVING TOWN he has been selected at 61° Festival du Film Locarno, received the Mention Spéciale du Jury at Festival du Cinema de Bruxelles, winner at 2008 Philadelphia Documentary & Fiction Festival, winner at Festival De Cine Internacional de Barcelona, Nomination at the International Filmmaker Festival, screened at contemporary art exhibition “Parallel Worlds” inside the 53^ Mostra Biennale of Venice.