Giancarlo Schiaffini

Giancarlo Schiaffini is an Italian trombonist, tubist and composer, born in Rome in 1942, who works across free jazz, improvisation and contemporary composed music. He took a degree in physics and is largely self-taught on his instruments. He is also known as a performer of new music, a soloist in Luigi Nono's Prometeo, and as a member of the Italian Instabile Orchestra. Schiaffini attended the Darmstadt courses in 1970, studying with Stockhausen, Ligeti and Vinko Globokar, and worked with Franco Evangelisti, John Cage and Giacinto Scelsi.