Biography

Giovanni Candia approaches the study of guitar at the age of ten. The initial interest in blues soon turns into a strong passion for jazz, a musical genre that he deepens at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, first following the traditional diploma course and then the three-year jazz period.

After completing his three-year academic studies at Saint Louis, he obtained a second cycle academic diploma in jazz guitar at “Santa Cecilia” Conservatory of Music in Rome. Contemporarily to his musical training, he obtained a first and second level degree in Communication Sciences at the Pontificia Salesiana University in Rome.

He has performed in numerous music exhibitions both in Italy and abroad. In 2019 he released "Terra Tranquilla", the first record of the Scape quartet, where he appears both as a guitarist and as a composer, arranger and producer. He is actively involved in original musical projects, both as a guitarist and as a composer and producer.

Always strongly interested in music teaching, since 2015 he has been teaching at Saint Louis College of Music, where he holds disciplinary areas such as ear training, music theory, harmony studies and guitar workshops. He is strongly active in international interchange and cooperation projects related to the activity of Saint Louis.

at the age of ten. The initial interest in blues soon turns into a strong passion for jazz, a musical genre that he deepens at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, first following the traditional diploma course and then the three-year jazz period.European Jazz Contestat the age of ten. The initial interest in blues soon turns into a strong passion for jazz, a musical genre that he deepens at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, first following the traditional diploma course and then the three-year jazz period. B-Jazz International Contestat the age of ten. The initial interest in blues soon turns into a strong passion for jazz, a musical genre that he deepens at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, first following the traditional diploma course and then the three-year jazz period. at the age of ten. The initial interest in blues soon turns into a strong passion for jazz, a musical genre that he deepens at the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, first following the traditional diploma course and then the three-year jazz period..

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