Bio

He opens Maxine Recording Studio

Graduates in Musicology from D.A.M.S. in Bologna

The album RINALDO DONATI NÃO is published by Mama Records / ‘Philip Morris Companies Inc. New York’

He collaborates on the production of Claudio Sanfilippo’s album ‘Stile Libero’ nominated ‘best opera prima’ for the 1996 ‘Tenco Award’ San Remo

The ‘Philip Morris Companies Inc. New York’ is sponsor of the electro/acoustic septet ‘Rinaldo Donati Não’

He wins the ‘VII° Città di Recanati Award’ with Guglielmo Tasca

The double album JARDIM BOTÂNICO (OCEÂNICO) is recorded with the septet, featuring vocalists Roberta Gambarini & Mark Murphy

He writes the music for the album NAUTILUS, the music score for the J. Russillo Ballet Théâtre which premiered in Paris in 1998

He starts a collaboration with French choreographer and dancer Véronique Abat, writing music for contemporary dance projects
da cui nascono le producing the following pieces: ‘La Damoiseau’, ‘Indigo’, ‘Radio’s Callings’ and ‘Humanoptères’

He produces and arranges Claudio Sanfilippo’s album ‘Isole nella Corrente’

HUMANOPTÈRES with Véronique Abat, is awarded 1st Prize at ‘Concours International de Chorégraphie’ in Rouen, Normandy

He is invited to collaborate with the Contemporary Music Research Laboratory of the City of Milan’s ‘Civica Scuola di Musica’

Co-producer, co-author and co-arranger for ‘Toque’ by Kal Dos Santos and for ‘Fuzuê’ by Luis De Oliveira ‘Mestre Baixinho’

The monography APPUNTI DI VIAGGIO – Rinaldo Donati: compositore (Abaco Series – Book + cd) è is dedicated to his own work

He writes the music for the dance/theater creation ‘L’Ora di Macabea’ by Regina Marques and Delma Pompeo

Production and arrangements for Claudio Sanfilippo’s album ‘I Paroll che Fann Volà’

He produces and arranges music for ‘Geronimo Stilton’s CDs (Piemme/Sony Music)
He becomes art director of the ‘Appunti di Viaggio’ Abaco Series: Rita Marcotulli (Italy 2003), Claudio Sanfilippo (Italy 2003), Hamilton de Holanda (Brazil 2004), Nate Wood (USA 2005), Roberta Gambarini (USA 2006), Alberto Capelli (Italy 2006), Marco Brioschi (Italy 2007) e Danny Given (USA 2008)

The album CASA BRASIL is published by Energy Production and released worldwide.
With Andrea Donati he opens Maxine Productions, a recording label and publishing company, trademark of Vaporosa Srl.

The album VAGALUME is recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Los Angeles and Milan. Published by Energy Production, it is released worldwide.
With Maxine Productions, he produces for Swiss recording label Kind Of Blue Records the albums:
‘Samba do Avião’ by Hamilton de Holanda with Richard Galliano, ‘A Jazz Life’ by Tony Scott & Kneebody,
‘Essence’ by Marco Pereira Trio with Paul Mc Candless
‘L.A. Jazz Ensamble’, recorded in L.A.with Darek Oles, Janis Siegel, Bob Sheppard, Alan Pasqua, Larry Koonse and Peter Erskine
‘Nut Tree Quartet”, recorded in N.Y. with Jerry Bergonzi, John Abercrombie, Gary Versace and Adam Nussbaum

He is in charge of the arrangements and the artistic production of the album ‘Fotosensibile’ by Claudio Sanfilippo
Co-production of ‘Nel Bere Nel Mare’ a Claudio Sanfilippo’s DVD
He writes the music for ‘No(s) Futurs’ for the video-dance project by Véronique Abat

The album MUNDO SIMPLES, recorded in Rio de Janeiro, Toulouse and Milan, is published by Energy Production and released worldwide

Travelling, shooting photos and composing the music for ILUSÃO, fourth album with Energy Production
Arrangements of ‘Metropolitana’ and ‘Cowboy’, singles by Luigi Antinucci,
production and arrangements of ‘Stelle’, single track and video, by Agnese Manganaro,
arrangement of ‘Mucuripe’ for ‘Baticumbum’ by Nu Braz

Dedicating himself to photography and to guitars as a range of colors in a ‘solo’ project, he produces SIMPLE: sound and images for passing dreamers. A live performance which focuses on sound & vision in a photo/graphic quadriphonic environement.
He creates PAULISTAS, a photo exhibition dedicated to São Paulo for AGENDA BRASIL – São Paulo-Milano 50° anniversary, produced by Vagaluna.

The photo exhibition RIONOIR opens at Triennale Milano from 1 to 24 March, within the 20th edition of Sguardi Altrove Film Festival.
The “mobile” photo exhibition/installation GRACE ROULE HOT opens in April at the Sentiero d’Arte Festival, on Lago Maggiore.

Production of the album ILUSÃO moves on. He projects and sets MOSQUITO BLUE, a harmonic system of quadraphonic samples.
He writes the music for VAPOROSA, quadraphonic live set the will host guitarists Alberto Capelli and Roberto Tau c, as well as trombonist Raul De Souza. He records and co-produces the albums ‘Boxe’ by Claudio Sanfilippo and ‘Right Now!’ by Silvia Dalla Noce.
RIGHT NOW! Photosensitive Design is also the name of a series of customized objects created with a photographic weave.
GRACE ROULE HOT, mobile photo exhibition, takes part in the ‘Watermap Festival’ in Golena di Luzzara (Mn), in 2015, and in the ‘Milano Design Week 2016’. It is also showcased at ‘Parco Nocivelli’, in Verola Nuova (Bs).

LIVE@MAXINE, a series of live recording sessions at Maxine Studio. 4 audio-visual productions with an audience in the studio: Claudio Sanfilippo, Alberto Capelli an, in collaboration with Agenda Brasil International Brazilian Film Festival, Raul de Souza and Guinga productions.
LIFE IS OUT THERE individual photo exhibition and GRACE ROULE HOT, showcased by Azimut at Palazzo Bocconi, in Milan.

He opens NAVEGANTE, a creative workshop and show room dedicated to sound and image to promote his photographic and design work.

Co-producer of the album ‘The coffee I’ve Never Had’ by Fabio Paxia. He produces Alberto Pederneschi’s ‘Microcosmo’. He co-produces and oversees the arrangements for Max Luzzatti’s ‘Piccole Canzoni’ album.
He dedicates to the restoration and mastering of Red Records albums and mixes of new productions.