Roberto Occhipinti

Bassist Roberto Occhipinti was created in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, on March 25, 1955. He originates from a prominent musical family members which includes two guitarists: youthful sibling Michael and cousin David. Michael Occhipinti is really a well-known sideman and co-founder of NOJO — the Neufeld-Occhipinti Jazz Orchestra. On the School of Toronto, from 1972, Roberto Occhipinti examined under Thomas Monohan and was mentored by Joel Quarrington and specifically the acclaimed jazz bassist Dave Teen. He was an associate from the Winnipeg Symphony Orchestra within the middle-’70s, the Hamilton Philharmonic Orchestra in the first to middle-’80s, as well as the Canadian Opera Firm Orchestra within the middle- to past due ’80s; was primary bassist using the Esprit Orchestra from 1986 to 1994; and was a longstanding person in Arraymusic from 1979-2000. By 1997, Occhipinti started dealing with Cuban expatriate jazz pianist Hilario Durán, after that saxophonist Jane Bunnett’s Spirits of Havana, NOJO with visitor Sam Streams or Don Byron, the Toronto sextet Spirit Stew, Marty Morell, Gorillaz, Englishman Damon Albarn’s Mali Music, the Russian Globalis Symphony Orchestra, the real North Brass, Jovino Santos Neto, the Gryphon Trio, the St. Lawrence Quartet, and Via Salzburg. Also a well-respected manufacturer, Occhipinti spent some time working for Hilario Durán, Dafnis Prieto, Quartetto Gelato, as well as the Shurum Burum Jazz Circus, and is a music movie director and orchestra service provider for movies and advertisements. He received an Musician Diploma in the School of Toronto in 1999, and in 2001, within Bunnett’s Spirits of Havana, he distributed the Juno award for Greatest Global Record. In 2005 he received his very own Juno as manufacturer of Durán’s New Danzon Compact disc. Other awards are the Country wide Jazz Prize for Manufacturer of the entire year in 2005 and 2006, and Acoustic Band of the entire year for his very own music group in 2005. In 2006 he received a SOCAN prize for the toon series George Shrinks.