Niccolò Dainelli

After completing my bachelor degree and Master’s degree in clarinet, both with top marks (G. Verdi Conservatory, Milan) and my high school diploma in classical studies, I devoted myself to professional musical activities related to concerts, composition and arrangement of original music, also working as a session musician for Dente in various clubs and festivals in Italy, including the May Day live broadcast on Rai in Piazza San Giovanni in Rome. I then devoted myself to songwriting and composition, obtaining certification from the C.e.t songwriting course, the Rapetti-Mogol school, and collaborating on the writing of pop songs: “Manifesto” by L. Bertè, “Oro e Rosa” by Irene Grandi, to be released in 2025, and with other emerging artists. I took guitar and modern singing courses at the NAM academy in Milan and musical masterclasses with clarinet players A. Carbonare and G. Mirabassi. In recent years, I have devoted myself to studying jazz saxophone with M. Tracanna at Milan Conservatory, attending summer courses at Siena Jazz with M. Ben Wendel and Miguel Zenon and at CODARTS in Rotterdam. I won a full scholarship to Berklee College of Music in Boston (MA), where I spent a full semester. In the field of jazz, I have collaborated with the VJO (Verdi Jazz Orchestra) and with Milanese big bands (VJO, Millennial Orchestra and Chicago Stompers). In the field of pop, I have worked as a producer and session musician (Santa Tenerezza 2025 by Dente).