Vita

Daniele Roccato Professor of Double bass at the Conservatory of “Santa Cecilia” in Rome, is a double bass soloist and composer. As a soloist he has performed at many of the world’s most renowned festivals and concert halls, often presenting his own compositions. Gavin Bryars, Julio Estrada, Fabio Cifariello Ciardi, Ivan Fedele, Sofia Gubaidulina, Hans Werner Henze, Filippo Perocco, Terry Riley, Nicola Sani, Salvatore Sciarrino, Stefano Scodanibbio, wrote for and worked with him. Together with Scodanibbio he created Ludus Gravis, the most recognized ensemble of double basses in the field of contemporary and new music. For dancer and coreographer Virgilio Sieni he wrote the music of Agorà Tutti, Vangelo secondo Matteo (produced by La Biennale di Venezia), CORPUS_Deposizioni e Visitazioni, Vita_Nova, DOLCE VITA_Archeologia della Passione, (produced by RomaEuropa Festival), Le Sacre - Preludio (produced by Teatro Comunale di Bologna), Cantico dei Cantici, Preludi/Cominciamenti. Within theatre he wrote the music for NuvoleCasa and Monsieur Teste produced by Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio (Chiara Guidi) and for and for LUS, produced by Teatro delle Albe (Ermanna Montanari, co-produced by ERT - Emilia Romagna Teatro) for which he received the nomination to the UBU Prize 2015 as a composer. He also wrote the music for Madre (produced by Teatro delle Albe, Ravenna Teatro). He wrote the music for the films The Sky over Kibera and ER by Marco Martinelli. Together with the composer Tonino Battista he realized the opera Assedio, coproduced by RAI News24. He worked with the war correspondents Lucia Goracci and Francesca Mannocchi. In the field of extemporary creation and improvisation he performed with many reference artists. Among the duo and trio projects are to be mentioned the ones with Olivier Benoit, Bruno Chevillon, Marco Colonna, Pascal Contet, Mark Dresser, Paolo Damiani, Marc Ducret, Garth Knox, Ciro Longobardi, Ivo Nilsson, Fabrizio Ottaviucci, Barre Phillips, Dominique Pifarély, Michele Rabbia, Terry Riley, Markus Stockhausen, Jay Schwartz, Michael Thieke.
He often improvises also with dancers, actors, writers, philosophers, poets, painters, graphic novelists. To be mentioned the project with painter, sculptor and poet Jim Dine, one of the founders of Pop Art movement.
Some of his many transcriptions are forthcoming for Sikorski, Schott and Salabert editions. He brought the double bass as a solo instrument into pop music with trio projects together with Lucio Dalla and Roberto Vecchioni. He was invited to hold seminars at Conservatoire National Supérieur (Paris), Universitat der Kunste (Berlin), San Francisco State University, Norwegian Academy of Music (Oslo), Ca’ Foscari University (Venice), Royal Danish Academy of Music (Copenhagen), UNAMM (Mexico
City), UNEAC (Havana). He recorded for ECM, Wergo, Sony. Several of his concerts were broadcast by Rai RadioTre, BBC Radio and Sky ARTE.