Giuseppe "Beppe" Bertolino

composer-guitarist-bassist-singer

 

He was born in the first half of the 60s and very soon, thanks to the 45 rpm "My Sweet Lord" (G. Harrison) he fell in love with music discovering at an early age the Beatles and the guitar, which will become the inseparable companion of life and work, bringing joy in life and pain in the school curriculum.
He began as a self-taught and then continued his studies for a few years in some music schools and with private teachers.

Alongside his experiences with pop groups and as a live soloist, at the end of the 80s he also began his activity as a session musician, as a guitarist and singer for record productions and for radio and television advertising and at the same time as a teacher at some music schools in the Veneto region.

In 1994 he attended the European Center of Toscolano in Umbria (CET), the school founded and directed by Mogol, on 2. course for composers of light music graduating.

He collaborates in the studio with Toto Torquati, producer and arranger of Banco del Mutuo Soccorso, O. Vanoni, C. Baglioni, S. Caputo and live with Mino Mistrorigo, Pino Donaggio's guitarist.

He worked as a guitar teacher in the 90s at the "Dizzie Gillespie" School in Bassano Del Grappa and at the Mino Mistrorigo Music School in Arzignano (VI). He currently teaches privately and at the Casa Della Musica in Tencarola (PD) directed by the pianist / choir director Davide Stecca.

He works, in various Italian theaters, for some Musicals staged between 1999 and 2003 including "Jesus Christ Superstar", under license from the English publishing house, "The Music Wall", based on the discography of Pink Floyd, and "The Blues Brothers" the latter directed by Riccardo Recchia, director of the Mediaset broadcast "Zelig".

He participates as a guitarist and percussionist in some international productions and in this context, for the Swedish pop group Arvingarna, produced by Tony Visconti, he writes the song "One more try" published in 1998 by Baby Records International.

In 1999 his 1. Solo CD "Jaybee - A World Inside", a collection of original instrumental tracks, a tribute above all to some "historical" guitarists, ranging from electric and acoustic pop, to jazz-rock, jungle and world music, the album is also reviewed by Fabio Treves on the Italian magazine Jam (March 2004) and is available on the www.vitaminic.it website, where you can listen to some tracks.

He collaborates in the studio as a guitarist with the salsa group "Mezcla Latina" and with the composer arranger Ascanio Scano in the Latin jazz project "Morrocoy", a group that offers original songs.
He plays live with the Casanova Venice Ensemble orchestra which offers the most famous songs of the musicals "Jesus Christ Superstar", "Evita", "Notre Dame de Paris", "Cats", "The Phantom of the Opera", with the participation of the singers of "Notre Dame de Paris" V. Matteucci (recent protagonist also of "Dracula" by PFM), M. Guerzoni, Lola Ponce, Joe Di Tonno.
He played in January 2007 with Darryl Jones, bassist of the Rolling Stones, Sting (1985-1987) and Eric Clapton.

Since 2000 he has collaborated as a composer and instrumentalist with the Sound Vision Library (www.skillmedia.com).

With the Morrocoy quartet he participates in various local and national radio and TV broadcasts, and plays in various clubs and events dedicated to Latin jazz. distributed by Azzurra music, the 1. CD of the group, with the same title.

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