Lo Cascio Giovanni

Giovanni LoCascio
drummer/percussionist/composer
He studied music at the Berklee College of Music and Ethnomusicology at the Sapienza University of Rome.
He has collaborated, as an author or performer, with numerous artists in the field of music, theater and cinema, including
George Garzone, Hector Zazou, Louis Bacalov, Pivio & Aldo De Scalzi, Novalia, Banda Ikona, Agricantus, Giorgio Barberio Corsetti, Maurizio Scaparro, Giorgio Albertazzi, Giorgio Tirabassi, Mario Monicelli, Massimo Popolizio.
He has performed in Italy and abroad and recorded over 50 CDs and composed numerous soundtracks for the cinema.
He has taught at the Jazz University of Terni, at the Timba Centro di Percussioni and at the Imusicschool in Rome.
He has been musical consultant for the Alta Mane Foundation in Italy, Brazil and Mozambique, founder and artistic director of the Juakali Drummers Project and the Slum Drummers of Nairobi, performing all over the world and in England in the presence of Queen Elizabeth.