Davide Piersanti

Davide Piersanti is an Italian trombonist, composer, improviser, multi-instrumentalist and performer associated with Rome and Berlin. He trained in jazz at the conservatory in Frosinone and has worked across free improvisation, avant-jazz, electroacoustic music, funk and interdisciplinary performance.

He has taken part in projects involving film music, conduction and collaboration with dance and theatre, and performed with musicians including Butch Morris, Alvin Curran and Steve Swell. Creative Sources documents his trombone on CS373, CS466 and Radical Flowers (CS718). His approach uses the instrument's broad range of pitch, breath, resonance and physical articulation.