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T.T.T. Project

Music from Transylvania Trentino Tyrol

A musical journey through Eastern Europe, Austria and Italy

Who we are

The T.T.T. Project – whose musicians come from the Trentino, Tyrol and Venetia – carefully leads its audience on a multicultural musical route through half of Europe. The main focus lies on those regions in which the artists are musically enmeshed. Founded by music ethnologist Renato Morelli, the quintet’s musical journey begins in the Trentino, continues through South and North Tyrol and finally ends in Transylvania. A great variety of melodies, musical structures and rhythms are audible and perceptible throughout the performance and due to the shared Austro-Hungarian history of those regions, surprising common features can be perceived. The T.T.T. Project’s repertoire comprises Klezmer (traditional Jewish music), compositions of the famous Sonnleithner collection from the Trentino (Vienna 1819) and traditional music originating in Hungary, Tyrol and the Trentino.

Renato Morelli (IT)

Accordion

Renato (the founder of the band) is an Italian ethnomusicologist, director, musician. After studying sociology (Trento University) and music (Bomporti Conservatory), he subsequently worked as a director of ethnographic films for the Italian State TV (RAI) on the Alpine Region, Sardinia, Georgia, and Latin America – a production acknowledged by twenty-five international awards. As a scholar he is best known as an ethnomusicologist. Besides publishing a number of contributions in different formats (books, CDs and DVDs) he has taught in a number of post-graduate courses at the Universities of Milan, Trento, Como, and at the Conservatoires of Trento, Bolzano, Brescia.

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Bice Morelli (IT)

Violin

Bice Morelli studied classical Violin at the conservatories of Bolzano (IT) and Trento (IT). She is currently based in Bologna (IT) where she works as a Violin teacher and collaborates with a great variety of different groups, such as chamber orchestras and the Concertango Ensemble Quintet (Tango). Besides her skills in baroque and classical music, she specialized during various masterclasses abroad in Traditional Irish Music with the fiddle, Hungarian Music and Klezmer. She has been a member of the T.T.T. Project since the foundation of the group in 2012.

Matteo Scalchi (IT)

Guitar and Mandolin

Matteo Scalchi is a guitarist, composer and teacher based in Bolzano/Bozen (Italy). After studying jazz guitar in Veneto and Innsbruck and having recorded 6 studio albums with Italian bands such as Mandela and Casa, he currently plays acoustic and electric guitar in various projects, ranging from Hot Jazz to Rock and World music. Since 2018 he is a teacher and organizer at the MeranOjazz academy & festival in Merano, Italy.

Belinda Miggitsch (AT)

Clarinet

Belinda is an Austrian clarinetist based in Innsbruck. After many years of training in classical music, she studied Jazz and Improvised Music at the Conservatory of Innsbruck. She plays clarinet and base clarinet in various projects with a special love for Klezmer, New Orleans Jazz, Gypsy Jazz, Mediterranean Jazz, ethnic music from Italy, Austria and Eastern Europe but also Modal Jazz and Experimental Music. Besides her main band projects she contributed as musician and composer for CD recordings, wrote music for a theatre piece, composed the soundtrack for a short movie, which she also developed and organized. She joined the T.T.T. Project in 2021.

Andrea Ruocco (IT)

Double bass

Andrea is an Italian bass player and composer based in Torbole, Italy. He graduated in Jazz and classical music at the conservatory of Trento and Vicenza with electric bass and double bass. Andrea also holds a degree in Musictherapy at CESFOR (Bz) and registered in "Punto di Svolta” with the approach Transformational Humanistic Music Therapy. He plays in different projects such as T.T.T. Project, Train de Swing (Hot Jazz), Mask (originals) and does solo research on bonds between improvisation and meditation.

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