Michel Bisceglia
”Michel Bisceglia’s artistry, prowess and vocabulary at the piano delivers a well versed slant on the traditions of modern jazz. He has taken an astute look at all the masters of his instrument and developed a uniqueness, all his own. I highly recommend the Michel Bisceglia trio. Our audience loved him.” - JOHN NUGENT Rochester International Jazz Festival
Pianist, composer and arranger Michel Bisceglia is one of the most important and most vigorous musicians from Belgium. As a composer and musician he worked with jazz icons such as Randy Brecker, Bob Mintzer, Toots Thielemans and Dewey Redman. He was also nominated twice as Best Belgian Musician of the year, in 1999 and 2002. Only rarely this trio finds the time to perform their exquisite music live on stage.
Michel Bisceglia took his time to develop his most personal project. Since 1997 he recorded only five albums with his trio, but they played worldwide on famous jazz festivals such as the Rochester International Jazzfestival (USA), Jarasum International Jazz Festival (South Korea), Hong Kong International Jazz Festival (HK) the Guimaraes Jazz Festival (Portugal) with Dewey Redman Quartet, Ulverston Music Festival in the UK. Each one of those five albums is an absolute masterpiece. As Michel Bisceglia describes it himself: “They are exercises in subtilized meditations on intangible melodies.”
A typical characteristic of Michel Bisceglia is working with artists outside the jazz world. His most notable coproduction in this regard was released with the famous Belgian DJ Buscemi on Blue Note Records.
The last decade Michel Bisceglia worked on more than thirty feature films. Some of these films were screened at the Cannes Film Festival and Venice International Film Festival. His soundtrack for the film "Marina" (about the childhood memories of Rocco Granata) won a World Soundtrack Award in 2014. He also worked on the film “Hannah” staring Charlotte Rampling award on the Venice Film Festival in 2018. Bisceglia occasionally also arrange, orchestrates and conducts soundtracks for other film composers. His contribution as orchestrator and conductor to the film "Duelles" composed by Frédéric Vercheval also won the World Soundtrack Award 2019 for best Belgian Score and a Magritte Du Cinéma for best original score. And recently he composed the soundtrack with Hans Mullens for the 10 episodes Netflix world wide released serie “Thieves of the wood” !