BIOGRAPHY

The saxophonist and composer Silvio Zalambani for several years has dedicated himself mainly to artistic, educational and research musical activities on traditional Latin American music, in particular Tango and Cuban, Brazilian and Rio de la Plata culture.

He usually plays in a duo with Argentine pianist Federico Lechner and in a trio Tango Malandra with the Argentine singer Sandra Rehder and the Argentine guitarist Adrian Fioramonti; he's also the creator and the artistic director of his 4to Tango, of the project Grupo Candombe, of the saxophone quintet Amerindia Ensemble and the trio Tango Tres.

He also performs with the Quinteto Revolucionario, a group selected by the Piazzolla Foundation as the world's best interpreters of the renowned Argentine composer's music, and winners of a Latin Grammy Award.
With this project Zalambani has released his latest CD, Piazzolla y mas allá (Beyond Piazzolla), produced by Borgatti Musical Editions of Bologna (Italy), which will be released in 2026.
The album was recorded in November 2025 at Fort Music Studio in Buenos Aires with the the Quinteto Revolucionario, which includes: Sebastián Prusak on violin, Joaquín Benítez Kitegroski on bandoneon, Esteban Falabella on guitar, Sergio Rivas on double bass, and Cristian Zárate on piano, who also composed all the arrangements, including three compositions by Zalambani himself.

In 2021, on the occasion of the centenary of Astor Piazzolla's birth, Zalambani performed at the National Auditorium in Madrid as a guest of the European project Piazzolla x 100, led by Federico Lechner and formed together with Daniel "Pipi" Piazzolla (Astor's nephew), Claudio Constantini, Sheila Blanco, Toño Miguel and implemented by the Andrés Segovia chamber orchestra.

As well as in Italy, with his projects he performed in Argentine, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Finland, France, Germany, Netherlands, San Marino, Spain and Switzerland, also collaborating with many international artists, including: Gabriele Mirabassi, Marco Tamburini, Bruno Tommaso, Elio Coppola, Massimo Mantovani, Pedro Mena Peraza, Carla Bley, Steve Swallow, Donovan Mixon, Mario Féres, Duda Lazarini, Arismar do Espirito Santos, Antonio Serrano, Jorge Retamoza, Fernando Lerman, Mariano Gamba, Franco Luciani, El Chino Laborde, Raúl Chiocchio, Pablo Motta and the Argentine vocal quartet Flores Negras Tango.

As a soloist he proposed with the following orchestras: Teatro Comunale of Bologna (Italy), Teatro Comunale G. Verdi of Trieste (Italy), Teatro Sociale of Rovigo (Italy), Orchestra Filarmonica of Bacau (Romania), Orchestra Camerata Almagro of Buenos Aires (Argentine), USP Filarmonica of Ribeirão Preto (Brazil), Orchestra Filarmonica de Gran Canaria (Spain).

He represented Italy at seven last editions of the World Tango Cumbre (Seville-Spain, Valparaiso-Chile, Bariloche-Argentine, Seinajoki-Finland, Zarate-Argentine, Melilla-Spain, Granada-Spain); he was also a guest at the 23rd Festival del Caribe in Santiago and Guantanamo (Cuba), at the 23rd International Tango Festival in Granada (Spain), at the 3rd International Tango Festival in Barcelona (Spain '13), in three editions of Pourpre Périgord Jazz Festival in Bergerac (France), at Metastasio Jazz in Prato (Italy) and on live at Italian National Radio, RAI Radio3 La stanza della musica and RAI Radio1 Brasil.

In Buenos Aires he performed at the Festival y Mundial del Tango BA 2025, in the Auditorium of the Universidad Nacional de las Artes (UNA), in the hall of the Escuela de Música Popular de Avellaneda (EMPA) and live on Radio Nacional Argentina, as well as in various clubs in the city such as the prestigious Torquato Tasso, the Bebop Club, the Clásica y Moderna, the Club Social Cambalache and the Centro Cultural La Recoleta.

He was interviewed many times by argentinean TV Solo Tango, the Argentine National Radio, Radio La 2x4 Tango and for Argentine magazines Fractura Expuesta and Diario Folk; also he's mentioned inside the Tango's Dictionary of Catalunya (Casa America Catalunya-Barcelona).

He has recordings 10 CD and 1 DVD on live to his name: Guardia Vieja (1998), Grupo Candombe (2001), Grupo Candombe 2 (2005), Nostalgia del presente (2011), Tango Live (2013), Dejà vù (2015), Brasil pra mim (2016), Entrada Prohibida (2017), Viaggiatori/Viajeros (2019), Saxofón Porteño (2022), Piazzolla y mas allá (2026), all published by Borgatti Musical Editions as well as his music.

As a teacher he is regularly invited to hold masterclasses and workshops on Latin American music in Europe and particularly in Spain and South America: at the Conservatory of Music of Albacete, Jaén, Lliría, Seville and Valencia (Spain); at the Conservatory of Music of Utrecht (Netherlands); in the USP and UNAERP Universities of Ribeirão Preto (São Paulo) and EMAC-UFG of Goiânia (Goiás) in Brazil; at the Superior Conservatory of Music Manuel De Falla of Buenos Aires in Argentine.

For years, he has held conferences and series of meetings on the history of tango at cultural associations, milongas, music conservatories, and universities; his historical research also involves the collaboration of leading scholars in the field, including Rubén Andrés Costanzo and cultural anthropologist Maria Susana Azzi, the latter the official biographer of Astor Piazzolla and an honorary member of all the most important Argentine academic bodies dedicated to tango and beyond.

He was the creator of the International Festival Fiato al Brasile in Faenza, also covering the role of artistic director from 2012 to 2017.

Silvio Zalambani is graduated in Saxophone, Clarinet and Jazz music, he is a saxophone educator since 1999 at the Antonio Scontrino National Conservatory of Music in Trapani (Italy), which was converted to Jazz Saxophone in 2025; since 2016 he has also taught Jazz History at the same institute.
He is also currently a member of the College of Doctorates of National Interest (DIN) Artistic Research on Musical Heritage (ARMH) in the field of Musical Interpretation and Performing Arts (IMAP).