Massimo Urbani International Award is the most important Italian contest for jazz soloists.

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Competition Announcement 2023

8 February 2023/in 2023 Edition /by admin

27th edition – International jazz soloist award

Artistic Direction: MusiCamDo Jazz
Founder: Paolo Piangiarelli
Chief Judge: Francesco Cafiso

The competition is open to Italian and foreign jazz soloists playing any instrument (including voice).

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The following awards will be assigned:

Premio Internazionale Massimo Urbani;
“Paolo Piangiarelli” Award which includes recording, mixing and mastering of the winner’s artistic project;
2nd e 3rd place;
NUOVO IMAIE Award, which includes a 6 concerts tour for the winner;
Scholarships for jazz workshops in Italy like Nuoro Jazz and Fara Music Summer School;
Audience Award, to the artist most voted by the audience of the final stage;
Social Award, to the artist most voted by the web audience;
Critics Award, a special award given by a jury composed of specialized journalists and artistic directors

The History

Massimo Urbani International Award is the most important Italian contest for jazz soloists. Founded in 1996 in Urbisaglia (MC) by Paolo Piangiarelli, producer of Philology Label record company in memory of Massimo Urbani, brilliant saxophonist from Rome and prematurely dead, since the beginning it has attracted national and international attention managing to enhance the value and the visibility of young musicians.

From 2004 the contest takes place in Camerino and it is organised by the cultural association Musicamdo with the support of Municipality of Camerino and UNICAM. In 2007 the Massimo Urbani Award took the adjective “international”, with the aim of expanding its boundaries abroad. The contest gives young talents the chance to perform and be judged by experts through rigorous live auditions and a prestigious final stage. Music critics from the most important national jazz magazines join the contest composing the jury of critics and collaborate in judging with the main jury composed of internationally renowned musicians such as Enrico Rava, Renato Sellani, Paolo Fresu, Massimo Moriconi, Massimo Manzi, Fabrizio Bosso, Kurt Rosenwinkel, Ada Montellanico, Francesco Cafiso.

Just to get an idea, we list the winners of PIMU and who today are known as leading musicians on the international jazz scene: Rosario Giuliani, Alfonso Deidda, Francesco Cafiso, Gianluca Petrella, Luigi Grasso, Nico Gori, Massimiliano Ionata, Emanuele Basentini, Agostino Di Giorgio, Dino Rubino, Julian Mazzariello, Roberto Caon, Antonella Leotta, Ciara Arnette, Luca Mannutza, Massimo D’Avola, Claudio Filippini, Sergio Casale, Andrea Pimazzoni, Luigi Vitale, Walter Ricci, Bepi D’Amato, Robert Anchipolosky, Antonio Prince, Faustina Sokolov, Alessandro Lanzoni, Andrea Rea, Francesco Marziani, Yakir Arbib, Marco Ferri, Marco Guidolotti, Alessandro Usai, Fabio Giachino, Giacomo Tantillo, Francesco Patti, Daniele Cordisco, Eugenio Macchia, Giovanni Cutello and Matteo Cutello, Emilia Zamuner, Federico Milone, Tommaso Perazzo, Elias Lapia, Sophia Tomelleri, Lorenzo Bisogno, Antonio Ottaviano.

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