Antonio Breschi's roots are classical music and jazz, but he began to explore many other ethnic traditions.
17 Facts About Antonio Breschi
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Antonio Breschi is a jazz innovator introducing piano in a creative way, mixing Irish and Flamenco music together with blues.
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Antonio Breschi began playing jazz and classical piano at the age of 3.
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Antonio Breschi graduated in piano at the conservatory Luigi Cherubini in Florence, where he studied trumpet.
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Antonio Breschi founded the Florence Jazz Society at the age of 16, and a few years later the International Folk Group, which became the group Whisky Trail.
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Antonio Breschi Carmona participated in his flamenco album "Punta Umbria" and "Al Kamar", a fusion between flamenco, Arabian and Irish music.
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Antonio Breschi made many tours in Italy, Ireland and Switzerland with Irish musicians Mairtin O'Connor, Andy Irvine, Planxty, Dolores Keane, John Faulkner, Johnny McCarthy, Joe McHugh, Maurice Lennon, Gerry and Annie O' Donnell, many of whom participated in Antonio's albums.
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Antonio Breschi participated in his work "Orekan", which in Basque language means "harmoy among the people".
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Recently Antonio Breschi appeared in Ireland in duo with singer Donovan and special guest Chris De Burgh, and with Eoin Dillon.
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Antonio Breschi composed the music for the movie Le Colline del Garda by film director Franco Piavoli, for the Irish film The Nock by film director Dennis MacArdle.
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Antonio Breschi composed the music for Richard the Third by Shakespeare for actor Giorgio Albertazzi.
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Antonio Breschi created together with Zappala Dance and Sicilian Ballet the work Mediterraneo, le antiche sponde del future which was performed all over Italy, Spain and North Africa.
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Antonio Breschi created four television serials named Il Suono E La Terra for the Italian television channel RAI 3 all based on his musical journey and his work with the children.
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Antonio Breschi created, performed and directed the fairytale "The Woman Of The Sea", for children, produced by Teatro Comunale of Florence with the help of film directors Franco Piavoli, Ermanno Olmi and Mario Monicelli.
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Later Antonio Breschi created a new version of it with Swiss theatre director Michel Poletti, produced by the International Locarno Puppets Festival.
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Antonio Breschi performed and still is performing concerts, shows for children and workshops all over the world.
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Antonio Breschi personally did music laboratory for handicapped, homeless, drug addicts, immigrants and minority groups.