Emanuele Cisi was born in Torino, Italy, in 1964. A self-taught musician, he is one of the most representative voices in the European jazz scene. His unique tone, mixed with intimate knowledge of tradition and a personal taste for composition, has become a landmark for jazz lovers.

 

Since he won the Musica Jazz magazine critics' prize in Italy as New Best Talent back in 1995, he recorded 12 CDs as a leader or co-leader (the last one, Homecoming, for the Japanese label AlbòreJazz), and more than 50 as a sideman.

 

During his career, he played and recorded with many great artists like Clark Terry, Jimmy Cobb, Albert Tootie Heat, Walter Booker, Joe Chambers, Ron Carter, George Cables, Nat Adderley, Jack McDuff, Jimmy Owens, Billy Hart, Cameron Brown, Billy Cobham, Joey Calderazzo, Kenny Wheleer, Aldo Romano, Daniel Humair, Enrico Pieranunzi, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu, Sting and many others.

 

Emanuele has toured extensively in Europe, U.S., China, Oceania, South America.

 

In the spring of 2011, a world première of the Detroit Torino Urban Jazz Project (a multimedia project he founded and co-led since 2006 with Detroit-born tenor sax player Chris Collins) featuring a symphonic orchestra took place at Torino Opera House.

 

In the recent years, he recorded and toured as a jazz soloist with a baroque ensemble called La Venexiana, considered to be the world's preeminent interpreter of Monteverdi’s music.

 

Emanuele has been paying increasingly more attention to the U.S. jazz scene, and plans to record his next album in New York.

 

He teach Jazz Saxophone at the Conservatory of Torino. In May 2016 and February 2018 Emanuele more then 40-days tour of Russia.