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Mirko Scarcia, musician and composer
Mirko Scarcia started playing bass guitar back in 1997, with various local bands in small towns near Taranto, Italy. He then moved to Bologna, where he then began playing doublebass as well, inspired by the encounter with Ares Tavolazzi (former member of the Area, popular Italian rock-progressive band from the ’70s). Through a recommendation of Tavolazzi himself, he then went on to study doublebass with Maestro Luigi Giannoni at the Modena Conservatoire of Classical Music “O. Vecchi – A. Tonelli”, where he graduated in 2009.
Although always fascinated by multiple genders, his main occupation in Bologna has been jazz music. He has indeed attended a number of jazz workshops and private lessons with John Webber, Cecil McBee, Curtis Landy and Ron Carter. During his years in Bologna, he had the chance to play with various national and international artists such as Steve Grossman, Ronnie Cuber, Jesse Davis, Jerry Bergonzi, Rick Margitza, Piero Odorici, Barend Middlehoff, Jimmy Villotti, Carlo Atti, Paolo Fresu, Fabrizio Bosso, Flavio Boltro, Shawn Monteiro, Denise King, Giovanni Amato, Gregory Hutchinson, Gegè Munari, John Webber, Joe Farnsworth, Willy Jones III, Renato Chicco, Steve Gut and many more.
In 2007 he won the first prize at the Moncalieri Jazz Festival, near Turin, Italy.
As a bass and doublebass player he has also worked in pop and rock contexts, touring for several years with Apulian songwriter Mimmo Cavallo, British guitarist Arthur Louis and Federico Poggipollini, lead guitarist of famous italian pop star Luciano Ligabue.
Scarcia has also taken part to musical dramas such as “Nient’altro che… Bologna” (2015) and “Il Blues” (2016), both written and directed by songwriter Jimmy Villotti.
From 2015 he collaborates with Maestro and Conductor Beppe D’onghia, on projects “Emo Vo Experiment” and “Evocation Live Electronics Remix”.
In 2018 he works with producer Mauro Malavasi for the project “Tamuè” starring neapolitan singer Franco J. Marino.
As well as being a musician, Mirko Scarcia has been working as a composer and producer for years. He studied Classical and Modern Music composition with Maestros Mauro Montalbetti, Giuseppe Calì and Antonio Giacometti. He graduated from National Conservatoire Arrigo Boito of Parma in 2018 with a thesis on Contemporary composition, under the supervision of Maestro Roberto Sansuini.
Again with Maestro D’onghia he has been working as an assistant composer and producer, on projects “Morgan e il Paese dei Balocchi” (2016) and “Arisa Summer Tour” (2018), both with Philharmonic Orchestra “Arturo Toscanini” of Parma, “Eterno Tour” di Giovanni Caccamo e Beppe D’Onghia Ensemble (2018) and “Lucio Dalla – Quarant’anni dopo” (2019) with Philharmonic Orchestra of Bologna, collaborating with some of the most important icons of Italian music, such as Ron, Gaetano Curreri, Luca Carboni and Marco Masini.
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