Leonardo Jeszensky

LEONARDO JESZENSKY A 31-year-old violinist of Hungarian - Brazilian extraction, Leonardo Jeszensky graduated in Composition from the University of Campinas, Brazil; he attended for 4 years the Magyar school of popular music "O'budai Népzenei Iskola", Budapest; he is attending the course of traditional Hungarian music at the music conservatory of Nyiregyhàza. He played in the Youth Orchestra of Sao Paulo, for 10 years. He composed some pieces for contemporary dance and for the theatre, which were performed in Campinas. In Brazil he performed for 5 years with guitarist Eduardo Agni and his ensemble. With the traditional Transylvanian music ensemble "Furészelo Banda", he performed in many places in Hungary and recorded a CD ("Furészelo Banda"). He did organological research on string instruments in the world and on the French composer Francois Bayle. He has been visiting Romania for five years, and has made thousands of recordings in Transylvania, in the Campia areas; his interest is mainly focused on the comparison of the dance genre called "de a lungu".GIOVANNI DE CECCO A 32-year-old pianist native of Udine and a Philosophy graduate, Giovanni De Cecco studied piano with Venetian maestro Giovanni Ferrari, and then under the guidance of Anna Barutti from Venice Conservatory of Music. In Romania he absorbed from Tzigane bands many of the themes which he loves to reinterpret in the concert halls. This love was reciprocated by the artists and the Romanian government, who often invited him to perform and represent Romania together with Romanian artists: he performed in the presence of the former President of Romania Iliescu in the Presidential Palace, Bucharest; in 2004 at the Teatro dell'Opera, Rome, he performed in the special concert held to celebrate the National Holiday of Romania (the concert was broadcast live on Telepace channel and National Romanian television TVR Cultural); in Vienna for the upcoming entrance of Romania into the European Union; in Prague at the Romanian Embassy and Saint Nicolas’ church; in Japan in the presence of new Romanian President Basescu for the international Aichi Expo in June 2005 (broadcast live on Japanese Radio I) and in Nagoya and Tokyo in September 2005. He also performed in other important concerts at Reduta Jazz Club in Prague and, in the United States, in New York and Caldwell.