Eleonora Strino
jazz guitarist
Eleonora Strino is recognized by critics as one of the most promising young talents in the international jazz scene.
The international jazz magazine “Jazz Guitar Today” featured her on the cover of its February 2020 issue, following features dedicated to musicians of the caliber of Peter Bernstein, Kurt Rosenwinkel, John Scofield, and other great guitarists of the current scene.
On March ’23, her educational book ‘Bebop Scales for Jazz Guitar’ was released worldwide. It was published by music educator ‘Fundamental Changes’ which Amazon describes as “the most important independent music publisher in the world.”
In May 2023, her first album as a bandleader was released, recorded live in Berlin in November 2021, alongside two jazz legends: Greg Cohen on double bass and Joey Baron on drums. The album is titled ‘I Got Strings’ and was produced by the renowned Italian record label Cam Jazz.
She presented the album at the Blue Note in Milan as a trio with Jason Brown and Darhyl Hall.
Eleonora has numerous collaborations with some of the best jazz musicians and maintains an active international concert schedule. She has toured and conducted masterclasses in Brazil, the Canary Islands, North America, Europe, and all Europe.
She is a permanent member of Dado Moroni’s quartet, produced by Auditorium Rai; Emanuele Cisi’s quartet with actor Filippo Timi, produced by Warner Bros; Greg Cohen’s trio; and the group “The Great Guitarist” alongside Ulf Wakenius and Martin Taylor. (The group was founded in ’73 by Barney Kessel, Charlie Byrd, and Herb Ellis, and she is the first woman to be part of it).
In addition to her performing career, she is actively involved in teaching. She has conducted workshops and seminars at the Conservatory of San Salvador in Brazil, Hemu (Conservatory of Lausanne) in Switzerland, Conservatoire Pierre Cochereau in Nice, France, the Conservatory of Tirana in Albania, and the Taller de Músics Conservatory in Barcelona.
Currently, she serves as a jazz guitar Professor at the Conservatory of Cosenza.
More details about Eleonora Strino
Eleonora Strino grew up in a creative household. Her father and sister were important painters of figurative art, but music was what attracted her. She began playing guitar as a teenager, and from the first time she heard Jim Hall playing with Bill Evans, she knew she wanted to be a jazz guitarist.
She studied at the conservatory in Naples, then at the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with Martijn van Iterson, Jesse van Ruller, and Maarten van der Grinten. Eleonora began her professional career as first guitar in the orchestra of Italian composer Roberto De Simone.
She met Greg Cohen during an audition in Berlin. He was Tom Waits’ long-time bass player, and had also played with Ornette Coleman, Lee Konitz and Woody Allen, among others. He took Eleanora under his wing and they started a collaboration that led them to play all over Europe at many important festivals. In 2017, they recorded the album Si, Cy – a tribute to American songwriter Cy Coleman. They continue to tour Europe periodically.
In 2018, Eleonora received an invitation from the renowned Italian pianist Dado Moroni, who has carried on the Oscar Peterson legacy, to be part of one of his bands. They played at leading Italian festivals with American vocalist Adrianne West, who previously worked with Barney Kessel and Joe Pass. In 2020, the Moroni band hosted a week of concerts and masterclasses in Switzerland.
Eleonora is also a composer and arranger. In October 2019, she won a prize for the best composition at the international Johnny Răducanu jazz festival in Romania (named after the Romanian jazz pianist), with her song Senza e Ce Sta. She was invited to play her music with Milan’s civic jazz band in the beautiful Strehler Theatre.
In 2021 she was invited to join Emanuele Cisi’s new project and in September that year recorded the album Far Away for Warner Music. In addition to the recording, a docufilm will be produced and broadcast on Netflix.
In October 2021 she went on a month-long tour of Germany and Holland, performing twenty-four concerts in thirty days in major theatres and jazz festivals with three other international guitarists (from Russia, Germany and Australia). The tour was arranged by prominent American manager Herschel Freeman, who had called her to be part of the important International Guitars Night tour of North America.
In July 2022 she was invited by internationally renowned guitarist Martin Tayler to play a trio performance, along with world-famous guitarist Ulf Wakenius on The Great Guitars tour – a project that began in 1973 and still continues to this. Over the years it has featured some of the greatest guitar players in jazz history, including Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, Herb Ellis, Larry Coryell, Tal Farlow and more.
In November 2022, Eleonora took part in the sixth Tenerife International Guitar Festival, and in the same month began the Women and Music tour – the farewell tour of artist Ornella Vanoni.
In December 2022 she participated in the first Salvador De Bahia International Guitar Festival, where she also held a masterclass at the music conservatory.
During her career, she has collaborated with musicians including, Jason Brown, Wayne Escoffery, Martin Taylor, Ulf Wakenius, Seamus Blake, Joey Baron, Dado Moroni, Adrianne West, Greg Cohen, Derryl Hall, Dario Deidda, Peter Bernstein, Jesse Davis, Aldo Zunino, Enzo Zirilli, Adam Pache, Emanuele Cisi, Rosario.
Eleanora is pursuing many current solo projects. The future is bright for this multi-talented artist.
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JAZZ GUITAR TODAY
Eleonora Strino: Today’s Italian Jazz Guitar Master
CONSERVATORIUM VAN AMSTERDAM
Eleonora Strino artist of the month on Jazz Guitar Today
JAZZ GUITAR TODAY
Keeping up with… Eleonora Strino
JAZZ GUITAR TODAY
JGT International: Eleonora Strino
“We recognised in Eleonora not only a virtuoso jazz guitarist, but a methodical and inspiring teacher, so we were keen to develop a publishing project with her. The result is a very satisfying systematic teaching of essential bebop scales that explains the theory and approach, but is always practical and immediately musical”
by Tim Pettngale (Fundamental Changes)
“There is a new generation of great Italian guitar players right now, and Eleonora Strino is one of them including Matteo Mancuso and Pasquale Grasso”
by Vintage Guitar Magazine
DISCOgraphy
I Got Strings
Produced by Ermanno basso – CAM JAZZ
Recorded live in Berlin – November ’21
Eleonora Strino – guitar
Joey Baron – drums
Greg Cohen – double bass
SI, CY
Produced by Savarese Editore
Released in 2016
Eleonora Strino – guitar
Greg Cohen – double bass
Massimo Del Pezzo – drums
Mada
Produced by Massimiliano Pone – USELESS
CD Released in 2018
Eleonora Strino – guitar, voice, arrangements, compositions
Francesco Marziani – piano
Marco De Tilla – double bass
Massimo Del Pezzo – drums
Tres Palabras
Produced by Apogeo Records 2014
Eleonora Strino – chitarra
Alberto Marsico – organo
Massimo Del Pezzo – batteria
Itamela
Produced by Roberto Catulli – AUDITORIUM RAI CD Released in 2022
Dado Moroni – piano
Eleonora Strino – guitar & voice
Yanara Mc Donald – guitar & voice
Enzo Zirilli – drums
Far Away
Produced by Warner Music
CD Released in 2021
Emanuele Cisi – tenor sax
Filippo Timi – narrative voice
Eleonora Strino – guitar & voice
Marco Micheli – electric bass
Enzo Zirilli – drums
next workshop
1 / 6 JULY
AlbiJazz – Workshop Albissola (Liguria)
23/29 JULY
Eddie Lee Sligo Jazz Workshop – Sligo (Irland)
1st August
Eleonora Strino Masterclass – Teatro Cicconi – Sant’Elpidio A Mare (Italy)
28th October till 2th November
Leader and guest soloist of HEMU Jazz Orchestra – HEMU – Haute École de Musique Lausanne, SUISSEt
18th december
Eleonora Strino Masterclass At Vienna’s University – Vienna (Austria)
next dates
2024
december
2-3 DEC
Nardis Jazz Club
Istanbul – Turkish
6 DEC
Valle dei templi
Palacongressi Agrigento – Sicily
13 DEC
Santander Jazz Festival
Centro Botis – Spain
14 DEC
La Spirale
Friburg – Switzerland
17 DEC
Porgy & Bess
Wien – Austria
18 DEC
Masterclass at Wien’s Conservatory
Klangtheater
20/21 DEC
Tube’s
Graz (Austria)
27 dec
Umbria Jazz Winter
L’Aquila (Italy)
28/29 dec
Umbria Jazz Winter
Orvieto (Italy)
2025
January
2/8 JAN
Engelsholm Wintercamp
(Denmark)
march
9mar
Losanna (Switzerland)
Eleonora Strino with the Philipp Moll’s Band
22mar
Jazz à L’Etage Festival 2025 – France Saint – Malo (France)
Eleonora Strino quartet “Mediterranean Songs”
april
24/27apr
Las Brisas Ixtapa (Mexico)
Eleonora Strino Trio
june
25jun
Las Vegas (USA)
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