Giovanni Baleani, self-taught, later under the teaching direction of Umberto Fiorentino, Fabio Zeppetella, Ramberto Ciammarughi, graduated, with full marks, in 2023 from the Venezze Conservatory in Rovigo under the guidance of Enrico Bracco. In March 2025 he graduated in Jazz guitar at the F. Venezze Conservatory in Rovigo with a score of 110/110 and honours. Winner of the first edition of the Youme scholarship at PercentoMusica in Rome with the patronage of the European Community (international scholarship)
In 2013 he won the Arcevia Jazz Feast international scholarship, thanks to which he will participate in courses at the South African College of Music at the University of Cape Town.
In 2016 he won the first “International guitar awards” M. Colucci in the “Improviser” section. He has been practicing music since the age of 24, dividing his time between teaching and concert activities, carrying out many formations (Chitarreto dei Jazzemani by R.Zechini, Speak no Evil Trio, G. Baleani Trio, 3G Hammond Trio) and operating countless stable collaborations live and in the studio (Emanuele Evangelista, R. Zechini, Marco Postacchini, Glauco Di Sabatino, Fabrizio Ginoble, Roberto Desiderio, Linda Valori, Samuele Garofoli, Gabriele Pesaresi, Simone La Maida Roberto Monti, Mike Rossi, Jacopo Ferrazza, Lorenzo Tucci and Alessia Obino, Massimo Manzi, Emilio Marinelli, Stefano Paolini, Linda Valori, Loretta Grace, Carl Potter, Benjamin Jephta, Marlon Witboy, James McClure and many others.
He carries out an intense teaching activity in various structures in the Marche both as a permanent teacher and for sporadic activities and masterclasses and specific courses (jazz guitar, harmony, improvisation, ensemble music).
In the 2016/2017 school year he was a jazz guitar teacher at the Morlacchi Conservatory of Perugia for the pre-academic course.
Currently engaged at the F. Marini musical institute in Falconara as a jazz guitar teacher and vice-president, and at the Soprani Civic School of Castelfidardo. Teacher of Jazz Guitar, improvisation techniques and ensemble music at the prestigious Fabri Jazz summer seminars.
Giovanni Baleani plays a Oblique Standard model with the extruded edges option. He recently acquired a 17 inch Arch top, Onuris model, with Satin Natural finish
My adventure with Acoustic Liuteria’s guitars began almost ten years ago, ten years in which I was no longer able to play anything other than a Fulvio guitar..
Fulvio accepted and implemented some of my requests and we discovered that these choices were lucky and received widespread appreciation
These instruments have extinguished in me that restlessness typical of the guitarist who is never satisfied and always looking for something that isn’t there.
Taking the instrument out of the case I constantly relive the sensations of the first times because these guitars have the great ability to mature with you and surprise you every day.
The sound is a perfect mix between modernity and tradition, between the charm of acoustics and that of experimentation.
They are instruments that have a great personality but without imposing themselves, allowing the tonal characteristics of each individual musician to emerge and support and this aspect for me is perhaps the thing that makes Fulvio’s guitars unique.
Those from Acustic Liuteria are, without a doubt, the instruments with which I have had the greatest feeling, they have no adjustment limits and are really easy to play, I use very large strings and, when playing them, I challenge anyone to guess their diameter, given the softness of the fingerboard.
For me, owning and being able to play Acoustic Liuteria guitars means having found a personal voice, which manages to support and, very often, stimulate all my ideas by transforming my thoughts into sounds, and then into music.
For all this I have to thank Fulvio Cappelli.
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