Manuela Ciunna & Seby Burgio Duo “aquarela Do Jazz” at Elegance Cafè Jazz Club

Manuela Ciunna – Voice, guitar and pandeiro Seby Burgio – Piano, rebolo and tambourine
The duo was born in 2010 from the meeting of the singer Manuela Ciunna and the pianist Seby Burgio with the idea of ​​combining two great passions: jazz and Brazilian music.
After several trips between New York and Rio de Janeiro to deepen the study of styles and repertoire, the duo in fact takes the name of “Aquarela do Jazz” and over the years boasts of several concerts around Italy and beyond, like the concerts in Rio De Janeiro, first in 2011, then in 2019 together with Ana Costa with the project in trio called “Pra gente saborear”; the concerts in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on the occasion of the International Jazz Day for the Italian Cultural Institute in 2015; in Frankfurt and the town of Fulda in 2016....

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Manuela Ciunna – Voice, guitar and pandeiro Seby Burgio – Piano, rebolo and tambourine
The duo was born in 2010 from the meeting of the singer Manuela Ciunna and the pianist Seby Burgio with the idea of ​​combining two great passions: jazz and Brazilian music.
After several trips between New York and Rio de Janeiro to deepen the study of styles and repertoire, the duo in fact takes the name of “Aquarela do Jazz” and over the years boasts of several concerts around Italy and beyond, like the concerts in Rio De Janeiro, first in 2011, then in 2019 together with Ana Costa with the project in trio called “Pra gente saborear”; the concerts in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem on the occasion of the International Jazz Day for the Italian Cultural Institute in 2015; in Frankfurt and the town of Fulda in 2016.
The duo won the Catania Amigdala Jazz Talent award, the Kiwanis International Special Award. In 2015 he made his first recording work in collaboration with the carioca flautist / saxophonist Daniela Spielmann.
The proposed repertoire ranges from the most famous standards of Jazz, to mpb (música popular brasileira), to the classics of Bossa Nova and Italian Jazz, touching its most important performers and composers, combined with the unpublished compositions of the two artists.
The duo has played and collaborated with many other musicians, who have enriched the artistic project mostly from the Brazilian point of view, among the best known: Eddy Palermo, Alfredo Paixão, Daniela Spielmann and the singer Ana Costa.

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