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Entered in the European Dictionary "Women in Music" - Notebook n. 6 "Women in Jazz" (Columbus Publisher - Rome), Elisabetta Guido earned a piano diploma from the Lecce Music School (the Italian Conservatorio) and an opera singer first
certificate from the Music School in Matera. She has also
graduated in Law.
She is a vocalist, works as director of a gospel choir and
conducts also a pop music choir. She’s a composer registered
with the Italian SIAE (Società Italiana Autori ed Editori – Italian Authors and Editors Society). She cooperates as
vocalist and choir director for the “Grandi Eventi”
series of the RAI 1 Italian TV network (Sanremo Music Festival,
TV Oscar, Porta a Porta, Premio Barocco, etc.).
She has been a teacher in the supplementary gospel-singing
project courses at the “T. Schipa” Music School in Lecce.
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She entered into a music
cooperation with the Golden Gospel Singers Golden Gospel Singers, Ares Tavolazzi, Paolo Di
Sabatino , Fabrizio Bosso , Stefano
"Cocco" Cantini,
Marco Siniscalco, Gaetano Fasano, Lello Pareti,
Francesco Petreni, Mauro De Federicis, Maria Laura
Bigliazzi,
Glauco Di Sabatino, Marco Della Gatta, Renato Zero, Al Bano,
Renzo Arbore, Paolo Belli, Cheryl Porter, Jayonna Sims &
Virtuous Standard of Chicago,  Rose Harper, Gianfranco  Lombardi,
Alexia, Cecilia Gasdia,
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Melvin Jones, Arthur Miles, Riccardo
Cocciante, Antonio Palazzo, Fausto Leali etc. She is the director
of the “A.M. Family “ gospel choir established at the Lecce
Music School in the year 2002, that she conducted – together
with the Italian singer Al Bano – in the theme song of the RAI
1-Network “Grandi Eventi”
show called PREMIO BAROCCO 2004.
Still with “A.M.
Family” choir – giving in particular interactive gospel - she has been awarded the first prize at the “PREMIO FESTIVAL”
competition in Conversano (Bari) and at the Lecce Art Festival
in the year 2005, and has been given an Honour plaque, for her
artistic performance, by the town of Perugia and the province of
Lecce at the opening of the prestigious “2003 Perugia Classico”
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She
performed with many other artists such as Fabio De Nunzio of the
“Fabio and Mingo” duet in the “STRISCIA LA NOTIZIA” TV show and
worked with the theatre actress Carla Guido. She played also a
leading role in “Donne”, a Real Time show on Discovery Channel.
From 1985 she’s been performing with several groups playing
different music styles such as jazz, funk, soul, gospel, trying
also with lyric performances.
In 2004, her song “Sempre da soli”, taken from her solo
CD “Quello che c’è in te”, was selected by the AFI (Associazione Fonografici Italiani – Italian Phonographic
Association ) to be included in the “MIDEM 2005” compilation, to represent the
Italian independent record company at the International Market
of Music in Cannes (France). For the same CD, where she sings
unpublished songs (of which she’s
also the author) together with Paolo Di Sabatino and Piero
Iuliis, with the accompaniment by Fabrizio Basso, Paolo Di
Sabatino, Mauro de Federicis, Marco Siniscalco and Glauco Di
Sabatino, she’s been also awarded the “Lecce Art Festival 2004
Prize” for the jazz-soloist section.” She has also received the
“Lecce Art Festival 2003 Prize” for the jazz group section with
the Tuscanian gospel group “Deem Quartet”. |
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She performed
concert and teaching activities at Istituzione Polifonica “A.
Vivaldi” of Lecce directed by master Luigi De Luca, who has
directed her also as soloist and choir
singer both in Italy (in 1990, at the Spoleto “Festival dei due
mondi”; in 1994, in Lecce, for the visit of Pope John Paul II;
in 1999, in Rome, within a number of concert events held under the High Patronage of the President of The Italian Republic; on
6 January 2001 at the church of Santa Maria degli Angeli for the
closing ceremony of the 2000 Jubilee) and abroad (in 1989, in
Budapest with the local Philarmonic Orchestra, and in 1992 in
Münich, Prague, and so on).
She worked as teacher for the Perugia “Umbriacanto”
Association, in the Siena “Freeshout Gospel Choir” and
with the specialized ensemble courses and jazz and
Latin-American music courses held by master Paolo Di Sabatino
in the Salento region. She arranged also specialized jazz vocal
improvisation courses with Fabrizia Barresi. |
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