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ROXANA PRANNO - Editor

Graduated in journalism, at 20 years she creates and directs the House Organ, Institutional Organ, of the first private Argentinian television, CableVisiòn. She coordinates internal communication, assisting the evolution and transformation of this broadcasting station by cable toward a MCO – Multi Channel Operator. Inserted in a reality which the audience tv, radio, cinema and internet, she trains the staff to business communication. Tempted by an offer from the competitor company, at 23 years old, started to work to Multicanal, first Latin American company for optical network and multimedia contents. There she brings the company towards the T.Q.M. Certification, creating all the communication contents, linked to marketing and procedures. Today Multicanal is the only Latin American firm which has gained the International Standard of Excellence COPC 2000. After reaching these objectives she becomes a consultant for communication for the Argentinian Ministry of Labour and Productivity in her home town.  She used her past as a model to get in touch with a later organise cultural events for famous chain department stores. She decides to vary her activities being at the same time a journalist and a columnist for the Theatre and the Arts. Through this she interviews famous painters, musicians, actors and phylosophers in Argentina; her program being broadcasted on the channel CBA. Thanks to this contact with the artistic world she discovers a passion for music. She brings to Italy her love for music which she combines with her gift for communication creating Italian Way Music Record Label Company. Although Italy is famous in the world as a Style Icon, Roxana notices that music seems left out compared to the other forms of art. The objective is to bring to life together the Italian artists with the prestigious made in Italy: Quality music offered by Italian Way Music for every occasion.

   

JOHN TOSO - A&R director / Producer

Eccentric and classical. Often eclectic to be able to give voice to the innumerable facets of his creativeness. It loves the melodic music and he knows how to excite when it interprets it to the piano. After studies in the conservatory and the civic school of music jazz, has decided to open to the music to 360° embracing all the modern musical sons-in-law. For beyond a decade, has created and developed relationships with very numerous companies of edits, realizing about tens of out musical catalogues of new age, lounge, dance and chillout in Italy and in all the world. At today, he means in his repertoire as author and compositor, about 10000 passages of all the kinds musicals, listenable and runable from hundreds of musical and motor sites of search disguised of ringtones or production music. Artistic consultant and producing discographer, realizing in his sonorizzazioni recording studies for synchronizations \ displays, sound-tracks audio for parades of fashion, hymns for sporting teams, abbreviations for Festivals and National Contests, jingles for advertising spots and promoter of new events. At present in worldwide ratings with Ambient and New Age projects (Russia, Corea, America) and European ratings with pop-dance projects (Austria, Poland, Romania) and Elettro-pop (Germany, Sweden, Norvegia). Collaborates with discografiche houses like Emi, Idyllium, Azzurra Music, Kang Music, Melodica, Do it yourself, New Sounds, Ariel, Ecosound, Buena Suerte, Red Land, Hic Sunt Leones, Hitland, Feel Reel Records, Di Piu', Self, Discomagic, Noblesse Oblige, Dig It , It Way, DV More Records, Alta Marea, Last Scream Records, publishing houses for publications multimedial like Edi Ermes, Xenia, Cosmopolis, Ludi Sounds, Chinesport, and publishing publications with enclosure the cd with New Age, Nuova Era, Il Giornale, la Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno. Between the musical edits with international publications, A different drum, Multiforce, Sony Music, Berben, Universal, Warner, Benvenuto, Audisam, Zyx, Dancework, e pubblicazioni nazionali con Aland, Pharma Sound, Eurozeta,Crotalo, Bianco e Nero, TecnoDisplay, EraZero, Rima, Ninap, Ediemme, La Bambolina ,Testa Rossa, Latindisk, MusicaDoc, Gentile, Nuova Carish.
Composer SIAE from 1989, has won different musical contests among which the prestigious XG SOUNDWORK 1998 with the passage "Beautiful Lady" for the "succeeded match among electronic music and you shout real"; the Contest Maxi Study ISIS 2000 contest with the passage "Mandela" for " the art to mix the dance with the new age and the world music." Knowing with precision the elaboration of the digital audio and every type of application midi has held different courses of improvement in musical computer science and in the use of electronic (keyboards, expanders, samplers, outboards) tools. And' besides already present and recognized, in the World Encyclopedia of the Electronic Music., to have created a new sound new age with the project Aglaia.  For an author-composer of race, a professional history planned in these terms was not able whether to evolve toward the figure of Artists & Repertoire Director, today in exclusive for the Italian Way Music.
   

DANIELE ROSA - Music consulent / Art director

He has matured years of experience in the musical sector, at first as musician and then in the field of the musical consultation for the editings of Sky Tv Italy and, currently, for productions Mediaset. He has composed and performed music new age, light music, jazz. Its activity sees him besides alternate as arranger near studies of recording and shift-worker in different projects of music live.  It develops besides didactic activity as teacher of guitar.
   

MIRKO FAIT - Jazz director

Mirko Fait, child of art, he approached music at a young age. His cultural background is mainly jazz as a child does not listen much, because the father is passionate of this kind of music. At the age of 5 he begins to study the guitar and at the age of 25 he choses the sax, the instrument closer to his imaginary. Although it is an advertising professional, now campaigning in different formations, but the great impulse to the music completely overwhelms only when work is combined with a passion. In 1994, he began writing for the first free press in Milan, Milan to successfully care scene where a section of jazz and after one year, due to the engaging and enthusiastic way of writing he is called to follow the jazz and writing in the newspaper national "The independent one" made famous by Vittorio Feltri. The style appeals to the director and from jazz its repertoire expands to classical, pop and finally to all the music. In the meantime, he continues to play and draw on the hundreds of musical experiences, both as a listener and as a professional. This gives him the capatibility to get to manage different nights at the premises in Milan and later to understand what the public asks. Thanks to the fortuitous meeting with Italian Way Music he starts recording some productions of a series of CDs of some success. The numerous knowledges in musical circle of Mirko Fait widen so the stable jazz of IWM. After the last record initiative, United Jazz Artists (11 jazz bands in Milan), promoted and sponsored by Gabriella Niccolai, and whose Mirko Fait is its artistic director, the Italian Way Music inserts him to full title in its staff as artistic director of the jazz section.

   

DANILO MANTO - Talent scout / Classical repertoire

Born in Palermo, started his musical formation at the conservatoire “Vincenzo Bellini” in Palermo with piano, organ and composition. He later moved to Florence where he perfected his piano studies with Daniel Rivera, Antonio Bacchelli and composition with Maestro C.Prosperi. He took his final diploma at Perugia with brilliant results and also the L.R.S.M.  diploma (Licentiate of the Royal Schools of Music) in London.Danilo further developed his studies under the guidance of Orazio Frugoni. He has performed as soloist and in various groups both in Italy, Europe and South America recording for the Radio National de Venezuela and Radio Vaticano. In addition his compositions have been used for documentaries, theatre and ballet to much critical acclaim.In 1997, together with the American pianist Mary Elizabeth Sadun, he published a double CD of the complete works for piano duet by G. Donizetti (Musiksrasse/Agora). This was the first time these works had been recorded complete worldwide.Danilo’s repertoire both as a soloist and chamber musician embraces a wide range of composers, from Bach to the contemporaries. He currently teaches piano at the Sir James Henderson British school of Milan and is the director-founder-teacher of the “Corso Pianistico Estivo di Perfezionamento” in Monguelfo (Bolzano – Alto Adige).