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Andrea Tofanelli (born July 26, 1965) is an Italian musician.

nelli began playing trumpet
Trumpet

The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
 in 1976. In 1987 he graduated from the Musical Institute Luigi Boccherini of Lucca. One of his jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 teachers was Dean Benedetti
Dean Benedetti

Dean Benedetti was a saxophone player best known for his recordings of fellow saxophonist Charlie Parker. A tenor player and band leader in California, Benedetti first hears a record of Parker in the Spring of 1945....
 (1922-1957), a noted Italian-American saxophonist and friend of Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
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1995 Mr. Tofanelli has appeared in television productions for RAI
Raï

Ra? is a form of traditional music that originated in Oran, Algeria, and then in Oujda from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Music of Spain, Music of France, African music and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture....
, Mediaset
Mediaset

Mediaset is an Italy commercial television network and it has headquarters in Milan, Lombardy. The network was founded by Silvio Berlusconi, but today it is controlled by his family through Fininvest which has as major shareholder Silvio Berlusconi himself....
, La7
La7

La7 is an Italy private television channel and considered as the third major television network in Italy. It is currently owned by Telecom Italia Media, the media branch of the telephone company Telecom Italia, which also owns 51% of MTV Italy....
, Telemontecarlo and SKY, including Rockpolitik with Adriano Celentano, Stasera pago io with Fiorello, Pavarotti & Friends, Maurizio Costanzo Show, Buona Domenica with Demo Morselli orchestra , Passaparola, La Corrida and Crozza Italia.

nelli has toured extensively over Europe
Europe

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 and the United States
United States

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Andrea Tofanelli (born July 26, 1965) is an Italian musician.

Biography

Tofanelli began playing trumpet
Trumpet

The trumpet is a musical instrument with the highest Register in the brass instrument family. Trumpets are among the oldest musical instruments, dating back to at least 1500 BC....
 in 1976. In 1987 he graduated from the Musical Institute Luigi Boccherini of Lucca. One of his jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 teachers was Dean Benedetti
Dean Benedetti

Dean Benedetti was a saxophone player best known for his recordings of fellow saxophonist Charlie Parker. A tenor player and band leader in California, Benedetti first hears a record of Parker in the Spring of 1945....
 (1922-1957), a noted Italian-American saxophonist and friend of Charlie Parker
Charlie Parker

Charles Parker, Jr. was an American jazz saxophonist and composer.Parker is widely considered one of the most influential of jazz musicians, along with Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington....
.

Television Appearances

From 1995 Mr. Tofanelli has appeared in television productions for RAI
Raï

Ra? is a form of traditional music that originated in Oran, Algeria, and then in Oujda from Bedouin shepherds, mixed with Music of Spain, Music of France, African music and Arabic musical forms, which dates back to the 1930s and has been primarily evolved by women in the culture....
, Mediaset
Mediaset

Mediaset is an Italy commercial television network and it has headquarters in Milan, Lombardy. The network was founded by Silvio Berlusconi, but today it is controlled by his family through Fininvest which has as major shareholder Silvio Berlusconi himself....
, La7
La7

La7 is an Italy private television channel and considered as the third major television network in Italy. It is currently owned by Telecom Italia Media, the media branch of the telephone company Telecom Italia, which also owns 51% of MTV Italy....
, Telemontecarlo and SKY, including Rockpolitik with Adriano Celentano, Stasera pago io with Fiorello, Pavarotti & Friends, Maurizio Costanzo Show, Buona Domenica with Demo Morselli orchestra , Passaparola, La Corrida and Crozza Italia.

Touring and Teaching

Tofanelli has toured extensively over Europe
Europe

Europe is, conventionally, one of the world's seven continents. Comprising the westernmost peninsula of Eurasia, Europe is generally divided from Asia to its east by the water divide of the Ural Mountains, the Ural , the Caspian Sea, and by the Caucasus Mountains to the southeast....
 and the United States
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. For example, Tofanelli performed with Maynard Ferguson's Big Bop Nouveau Band in Italy
Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
, England
England

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, and the United States. Much of his music teaching has been in Italy; however, in the United States he has conducted master classes at California State University, Northridge
California State University, Northridge

California State University, Northridge is a public university in the San Fernando Valley, within the city limits of Los Angeles, California, United States....
, Fullerton College
Fullerton College

Fullerton College, in Fullerton, California, is the oldest community college in continuous operation in California, having been established in 1913....
, and the First Baptist Church of Decatur in Atlanta.

Collaborations and Recording

Tofanelli has recorded with Italian artists including Luciano Pavarotti
Luciano Pavarotti

Luciano Pavarotti Italian orders of merit was an Italian opera tenor, who also crossed over into popular music. He was the most commercially successful tenor of all....
, Rosario Fiorello
Rosario Fiorello

Rosario Tindaro Fiorello , also known just as Fiorello, is an Italy singer and also a radio and television presenter....
, Jovanotti
Jovanotti

Jovanotti is an Italy singer-songwriter and rapper. Jovanotti, whose real name is Lorenzo Cherubini, was born in Rome on 27 September 1966....
, Adriano Celentano
Adriano Celentano

Adriano Celentano is an Italy singer, songwriter, comedian, actor, film director and TV Master of Ceremonies....
, the Big Band di Demo Morselli, Gianni Morandi
Gianni Morandi

Gianni Morandi is an Italy pop singer and entertainer,Born Gian Luigi Morandi in Monghidoro, Emilia-Romagna, he became one of the best-known show-business personalities in Italy of the past four decades....
, Renato Zero
Renato Zero

Renato Zero is the stage name of Renato Fiacchini , an Italian people singer-songwriter and showman.Throughout his career, Renato Zero has been a crusader against drug abuse....
, Elio e le Storie Tese
Elio e le Storie Tese

Elio e le Storie Tese , often abbreviated EELST, is a popular Italian band from Milan, formed in 1980, whose music is clearly inspired to the style of Frank Zappa, both in music and lyrics....
, Toto Cutugno
Toto Cutugno

Salvatore Cutugno , better known by his stage name Toto Cutugno, is an Italian pop singer-songwriter....
, Dirotta su Cuba, Fausto Leali, Articolo 31, Gino Paoli and Tullio De Piscopo
Tullio De Piscopo

Tullio De Piscopo is an Italian drummer and singer.De Piscopo was born in Naples, the son of a drummer in an orchestra. In 1969 he moved to Turin, where he began a successful career as drummer for several popular artists, including Gerry Mulligan, Astor Piazzolla, Gato Barbieri, Lucio Dalla, Pino Daniele, Manu Chao and others....
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He has performed with numerous international artists as well, including George Michael
George Michael

Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou , best known as George Michael, is a two-time Grammy Award winning, England singer-songwriter, who has had a career as frontman of the duo Wham! as well as a soul music-influenced, solo Pop music musician....
, Joe Cocker
Joe Cocker

John Robert "Joe" Cocker OBE is an England rock /blues singer who came to popularity in the 1960s, and is most known for his gritty human voice and his cover versions of popular songs, particularly those of The Beatles....
, Tom Jones
Tom Jones (singer)

Sir Thomas John Woodward Officer of the British Empire , known by his stage name Tom Jones, is a Welsh singer-songwriter, particularly noted for his powerful voice and wide vocal range....
, Michael Bublè
Michael Bublé

Michael Steven Bubl? is a Canada big band vocalist and actor. He has won several awards, including a Grammy Award and multiple Juno Awards. While his first album reached the top ten in Lebanon, the United Kingdom and his home country of Canada, it achieved only modest chart success in the United States....
, Dee Dee Bridgewater
Dee Dee Bridgewater

Dee Dee Bridgewater is an United States of America Jazz singer. She is a two-time Grammy Award winning singer-songwriter, as well as a Tony Award - winning stage actress....
, Randy Crawford
Randy Crawford

Randy Crawford , is an American jazz and Rhythm and blues singer....
, Matt Whiteman, Kid Creole & The Coconuts, Samantha Fox
Samantha Fox

Samantha Karen "Sam" Fox is an English former glamour model and dance-pop singer....
, Imagination, Patrick Hernandez
Patrick Hernandez

Patrick Hernandez is a French people singer who had a huge worldwide hit with "Born to Be Alive" in 1979....
, Tony Hadley
Tony Hadley

Tony Hadley is an England Pop music singer who fronted the 1980s synthpop/new wave music band Spandau Ballet.The group disbanded in 1989, after their final recording studio album, Heart Like a Sky, failed to live up to the critical and commercial success of their earlier albums, such as True and Parade ....
, Paul Young
Paul Young

Paul Antony Young is an England pop music musician....
, Gloria Gaynor
Gloria Gaynor

Gloria Gaynor is an United States singer, best-known for the disco era hits "I Will Survive" , "Never Can Say Goodbye " , "Let Me Know " and "I Am What I Am " ....
 and Gibson Brothers
Gibson Brothers

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While even professional trumpeters typically lose power and control in the extreme upper register of the instrument, Tofanelli is noted not only for great power but for the control, relaxation, and beauty of tone he possesses in the notes above double-high C (C7-C8).

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