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AKAMU performed the following services, among others:

1) As Promotion Agency:

- organized 3 editions (2009-2010-2011) of Crosscurrent Festival in Botticino and New York City at Le Poisson Rouge thanks to the support of Italian National Broadcast RAI Radio 3; the ethnographic museum Musée du Quai Branly in Paris; and TriCentric Foundation in New York;

- organized in 2015 Cinquante ans de l'AACM de Chicago at the prestigious Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris for the Festival d'Automne with the presence of the Mayor of the City of Paris, Anne Hidalgo;

- organized in 2015 at the Egyptian Museum of Turin The Sonic Genome, an 8 hours performance created by Anthony Braxton with over 60 musicians; the same performance was also presented at Vancouver Cultural Olympiad (2010) and for Berlin Jazz Fest at the Gropius Bau Museum of Contemporary Art (2019);

- create and broadcast Radio Programs on the subject of Vanguarda Paulista on RAI Radio 1 (Italian National Radio), Radio Popolare Network (12 episodes) and on Italian Swiss Radio R.S.I. (4 episodes).


2) As Artist Management:

- promoting in exclusivity artists such as Art Ensemble of Chicago, Roscoe Mitchell, Anthony Davis, Henry Threadgill, Nicole Mitchell, Egberto Gismonti as well as in the past Musica Elettronica Viva, Anthony Braxton, Frederic Rzewski, Cecil Taylor, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), "Butch" Morris, Stefano Scodanibbio among others;

- creating the original projects Comicoperando and Wyattando, both paying tribute to the songs of Robert Wyatt (with his blessing!), one of the world's best-loved singers and songwriters in jazz and pop history;

- organizing in 2018-2019 three European Tours and one World Tour of The Art Ensemble of Chicago - a band that has marked the history of jazz (in 2017 celebrated its 50 years of career) - with concerts at Sons d'hiver (France), Arts Center (Melbourne, Australia), Barbican Center (for London Jazz Festival), Big Ears (Knoxville, USA), Edgefest (Ann Arbor, USA), Trip Metal Fest (Detroit, USA), Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington D.C.), Von Freeman Pavilion (for Chicago Jazz Festival), SESC Pompéia in São Paulo and SESC Santos (Brazil). For these tours, Akamu also took care of the Production and Logistic.


3) As Booking Agency:

- organizing concerts all over the world for dozens (!) of American Jazz musicians, plus European Tours for Brazilian musicians including João Bosco, Mônica Salmaso, Jaques Morelenbaum, Arrigo Barnabé, Yamandu Costa, Hermeto Pascoal, Hamilton De Holanda and many others;

- organizing hundreds of concerts in the most prestigious Concert Halls in Europe and several dozen prestigious extra-European locations. At bottom a selected list of the venues outside Europe.

The complete list of concerts (over a thousand) can be downloaded.

Akamu curriculum in PDF (last update on August 2024)

The artists AKAMU had the honour and pleasure to represent, include (in time order since 2007):
Anthony Braxton, Cecil Taylor, William Parker, Kidd Jordan, Milford Graves, Mary Halvorson, Jessica Pavone, Sara Schoenbeck, Roscoe Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, Roswell Rudd, Brad Jones, Richard Teitelbaum, Hugh Ragin, Cyro Baptista, Craig Taborn, Matana Roberts, Steve Lehman, Tyshawn Sorey, Bob Stewart, Amina Claudine Myers, James Emery, John Lindberg, Gerry Hemingway, Marty Ehrlich, Anthony Davis, Mark Feldman, Michael Formanek, Arto Lindsay, Jonathan Finlayson, Gerald Cleaver, John Escreet, Skuli Sverrisson, Vernon Reid, Melvin Gibbs, Ronald Shannon Jackson, Richard Davis, Archie Shepp, Angelica Sanchez, Pheeroan akLaff, Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones), Dave Burrell, Joe Bowie, Beans, Jeff Parker, Ingrid Laubrock, Jason Moran, Myra Melford, Ron Miles, Liberty Ellman, Ches Smith, Tim Berne, Günter "Baby" Sommer, Louis Moholo-Moholo, Alexander Hawkins, John Edwards, Benoît Delbecq, Wayne Horvitz, Amina Baraka, Silke Eberhard, Jim Hobbs, Henry Threadgill, Muhal Richard Abrams, David Virelles, Giovanni Falzone, Satoko Fujii, Joe McPhee, Loren Stillman, Chris Speed, Nate Wooley, Marcus Gilmore, Matthew Shipp, Mike Reed, Mat Maneri, Oliver Lake, Shabaka Hutchings, Alvin Curran, Frederic Rzewski, Pauline Oliveros, Hamilton de Holanda, Yamandu Costa, Mariá Portugal, Ray Anderson, Arrigo Barnabé, Jack Walrath, Tomeka Reid, Silvia Bolognesi, James Brandon Lewis, Luke Stewart, Famoudou Don Moye, Robin Holcomb, Thomas Buckner, HPrizm, Egberto Gismonti, Mayra Andrade, Matt Mitchell, John Hébert, Joseph Jarman, Dudu Kouate, Thomas Sayers Ellis, George Lewis, Rob Mazurek, Hermeto Pascoal, Nicole Mitchell, Moor Mother, João Bosco, Ivo Perelman, Jaimie Branch, Ava Mendoza, Steve Williamson, Elliott Sharp, Eric Mingus, Aruán Ortiz, Daniel Carter, Abel Selaocoe, Gabriele Mirabassi, Anna Webber, Stefano Bollani, Alexis Marcelo, Francesco Bearzatti, Jim Black, Gianni Gebbia, Tony Buck, Cristina Zavalloni, Pat Thomas, Steph Richards, Christian Escoudé, Ernst Reijseger, Andrea Centazzo, Richard Galliano, Jaques Morelenbaum, Paula Morelenbaum, Armandinho, Gabriel Grossi, Annie Whitehead, Chris Cutler, Karen Mantler, John Graeves, Heidi Heidelberg, Ballake Sissoko, Amirtha Kidambi, Mette Rasmussen, Joshua White, Mônica Salmaso, Cansu Tanrikulu, Dimitri Grechi Espinoza, Carmen Souza, Vinícius Cantuária, Maria João, Sakina Abdou.

with Associazione culturale Ex B. (2002-2013 in time order):
Shelley Hirsch, Henry Grimes, Perry Robinson, Andrew Cyrille, David Murray, Sunny Murray, Anthony Coleman, Reggie Workman, Sainkho Namtchylak, Jemeel Moondoc, Tristan Honsinger, Marilyn Crispell, Leena Conquest, Billy Bang, Barry Altschul, Sam Rivers, Karl Berger, Steven Bernstein, Fred Anderson, Terry Riley, Stefano Scodanibbio, Mark Dresser, Cooper-Moore, Graham Haynes, Terry Jenoure, Ernest Dawkins, Luc Ex, Veryan Weston, Dagmar Krause, Peter Brötzmann, Toshinori Kondo, Massimo Pupillo, Paal Nilssen-Love, Mats Gustafsson, Larry Ochs, Josh Roseman, Ikue Mori, Ken Vandermark, Bobby Previte, Tom Varner, Curtis Fowlkes, Lawrence "Butch" Morris.

We worked in all the prestigious venues around Europe. Below a selected events outside Europe:
Maison du Baron d'Erlanger (Tunis), Iridium Jazz Club (New York), Bang On A Can Festival (New York), Colisée (Victoriaville), Espacio El Dorrego (Buenos Aires), Riven Run Centre (Guelph), EMPAC (Troy), Barcelo (Carthage), Teatro del la Ciudad (Mexico D.F.), CAPA Theater (Pittsburgh), St. Mark's Church (Philadelphia), Irondale Center (Brooklyn), Casa del Popolo - La Sala Rossa (Montreal), Roundhouse Centre (Vancouver), Carnegie Hall (New York), Crosscurrent Festival @ le Poisson Rouge (New York), House of the Scientist (Novosibirsk), SESC Belezinho (São Paulo), Michael Joseph Centre (Nairobi), Gil Vicente Jazz Club (Maputo), Theatre on the Square (Johannesburg), The John Fitzgerald Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts (Washington D.C.), Jazz Gallery (Toronto), SESC Pompéia (São Paulo), Anfiteatro Simon Bolivar (Mexico D.F.), Centro Cultural São Paulo, Zipper Hall (Los Angeles), Duke University (Durham), The Cutting Room (New York), New England Conservatory (Boston), Wesleyan University (Middeltown), Von Freeman Pavillon (Chicago), Lenfest Center for the Arts (New York), Fringe Arts (Philadelphia), Presbyterian Church (Santa Monica), Trip Metal Fest (Detroit), SESC Ribeirão Preto, Thalia Hall (Chicago), Zebulon (Los Angeles), American Turners Club (Louisville), Xavier Hall University Theatre (St. Louis), EdgeFest (Ann Arbor), Thomson Arts Center (New York), Big Ears Festival (Knoxville), The Broad (Los Angeles), Arts Centre Melbourne, Ruba Club (Philadelphia), SESC Santos, Auditorium Getsemani (Cartagena), Roulette (Brooklyn), Taube Atrium Theater (San Francisco), The Promontory (Chicago), 918 Bathurst (Toronto), Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus).

...and we have only just begun... the best is yet to come!

Last update: December 5th, 2024