Enrico Gabrielli

Biography

Enrico Gabrielli has studied clarinet with Orio Odori, Antony Pay, Richard Stoltzman, and Ciro Scarponi, and graduated from the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milan.
He studied composition with Danilo Lorenzini and Salvatore Sciarrino. In 1996, he founded the Ensemble Niccolò Castiglioni, which then became the Ensemble Risognanze. For three years, he played in the seasonal orchestra for the Tiroler Festspiele in Erl.
Some of his pieces have been played by the Milano Classica orchestra, the Arena of Verona and the ensemble Fontana Mix in Bologna. In September 1999 he became part of the protoformation of Mariposa, joining Alessandro Fiori and Michele Orvieti, classmates from the music high school F. Petrarca in Arezzo, and Gianluca Giusti. In 2002, he left contemporary music to indulge in another kind of pioneering together with TIMET, the sound installation collective Sottosuono and Dario Buccino's Laboratorio Aperto Fatti Sonori. He grew close to the Italian underground scene playing with Marco Parente for a few years, actively participating in founding and producing for the label Trovarobato. He worked with Morgan in 2005, playing in Non al denaro, non all'amore né al cielo then in 2007 in Da A ad A. In 2006 he permanently joined Afterhours of which he was part until 2009, releasing two CDs, actively working to make the album I milanesi ammazzano il sabato,  and arranging and conducting the orchestra at the Sanremo Festival 2009 for the winning song of the Premio Mia Martini Il paese è reale.
In 2007, he founded Calibro35, releasing four albums with them and touring the USA, Brazil, the Balkans, Turkey and Northern Europe.
In 2009, he arranged the strings and wind instruments for Vinicio Capossela's recording Da solo. He arranged the wind instruments for the album L'amore non è bello by Dente. In the same year, he received the award for Best Producer of 2009 from the Meeting of Independent Labels, without ever really having produced a disc.
Again in 2009, he played on the album Resistence by the British pop band Muse and opened their concert at San Siro stadium along with Calibro35. He is part of a group called I Calimari that performs more or less classic traditional Milanese cabaret pieces. Its members are: Dente, Enrico Gabrielli, Gianluca De Rubertis (The Genius), and Federico Dragogna and Filippo Cecconi (Ministers).
Since 2010, he has been part of the Mondo Cane project with Mike Patton, the leader of Faith No More, with which he has toured four times in many European countries as well as in Chile, Argentina, Brazil, Australia, Russia and Israel. He returned to contemporary music with the Der Maurer project which released Der Maurer vol.1 consisting of pieces by Steve Reich, Giovanni Gabrieli, and Louis Andriessen. Again in 2010, he worked on arrangements with the group A Toys Orchestra on their album Midnight Talks and Midnight (R) Evolution. In 2011, he worked on the album A Better Man with the group One Dimensional Man and did the arrangement for the song Nel paese che sembra una scarpa from Zen Circus' album Nati per subire.
In 2012, he produced the album You Should Reproduce with Honeybird and the Birdies. With Craxi (a group made up of Gabrielli, Alessandro Fiori, Luca Cavina and Andrea Belfi, born and already deceased) he released the album Dentro i battimenti delle rondini.
In 2013, he arranged Phantom by the Baustelle, recording with the philharmonic orchestra FilmHarmony of Wroclaw and directed the orchestra of Massa Carrara in the theatrical tour for the album's presentation. He is the author of a documentary called Unità di Produzione Musicale, currently still in its gestation. Together with percussionist Sebastiano De Gennaro, he made a recording on vinyl entitled 1940 with music by John Cage.