Opening – Eleonora Bianchini

Eleonora Bianchini is born in Perugia and starts studying piano at the age of nine. In the same city she attends the Conservatorio di Musica di Morlacchi from 1999 to 2003. After participating in Umbria Jazz Clinics in the summer of 2002, she wins a scholarship to attend the prestigious “Berklee College of Music” in Boston.

From 2003 to 2011 Eleonora lives between Boston and New York, and during this period she makes her way in the field of Latin jazz music performing at numerous international events and counting important collaborations with Danilo Perez, Rosa Passos, Oscar Stagnaro, Mark Walker, Jamey Haddad performing on important American stages (Carnegie Hall, Queens Park, and Lincoln Center, etc.).

In April 2008 she releases her first album as a singer-songwriter, “Como Un Aguila En Lo Alto“, a project in which she manages to blend her cultural roots with the rhythms and colors of Latin American culture.

From 2011 to 2013 Eleonora lives in Ecuador and teaches singing at the Institudo de Musica Contemporanea which is part of the Universidad San Francisco in Quito.

In 2012 she realizes her second musical project “Esperare” started in New York and finished in Quito.

Since 2013 Eleonora lives in Rome where she continues her work as a composer, teacher, and singer. In 2014 she started a valuable duo in collaboration with the world-famous bassist Enzo Pietropaoli, releasing two albums “DOS” in 2014 and “IN SIGHT” in 2016, and in 2020 a third one named “ANDAR” enriched by the collaboration of the great accordionist Luciano Biondini, all produced by the Fonè Jazz label of Giulio Cesare Ricci.

In 2017 and 2019 Eleonora returns to explore the world and lives in India for two periods of four months each, teaching Jazz Singing at the Swarnabhoomi Academy of Music in Chennai and the Global Music Insitute in Delhi.

In March 2018 she releases her third album “SURYA” as a singer-songwriter produced by the Filibusta Records label in Rome.

In August 2023 Eleonora flies to India, to Varanasi, to represent Italy as a singer of the G20 orchestra “Sur VAsudha”.

Currently she continues to compose new music regularly performing in music festivals, and is a Jazz Singing teacher at some conservatories in Italy.