The evening, which will be presented by Alessandro Fedrigo – President of MIDJ and Simona Parrinello – Vice-President of MIDJ, with the participation of Ada Montellanico – President of the National Federation Il Jazz Italiano, will feature performances by the twenty musicians who took part in the project.

AIR was an international residency program involving 20 young Italian musicians (Simone Alessandrini, Andrea Bazzicalupo, Damian Dalla Torre, Antonio D’Agata, Luca Di Battista, Giuseppe Dimonte, Francesco Fratini, Simone Garino, Marta Giulioni, Federica Lipuma, Federico Milone, Domenico Napoli, Pietro Paris, Federico Pierantoni, Giancarlo Pirro, Daniele Raimondi, Nicolò Francesco Ricci, Michelangelo Scandroglio, Daniela Spalletta, Luca Zennaro) throughout 2022 and early 2023, who spent 4 to 6 weeks of training experience in the locations of Italian Cultural Institutes around the world (Amman, Budapest, Mexico City, Copenhagen, Krakow, Dakar, Edinburgh, Helsinki, Cairo, Lima, Lisbon, Madrid, Montreal, Oslo, Paris, Santiago, Sofia, Tirana, Tokyo, Toronto) . All experiences will be recounted during the evening.

AIR is conceived and designed by MIDJ Musicisti Italiani di Jazz, promoted and made possible thanks to the financial contribution of SIAE Società Italiana degli Autori ed Editori, supported by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation as well as by Europe Jazz Network, an association that coordinates and promotes more than 130 European festivals of jazz and contemporary music.