ADRIANA VASQUES IS A LONDON BASED SINGER, PIANIST AND COMPOSER. SHE GRADUATED IN CLASSICAL PIANO IN HER HOMETOWN TRIESTE, AN ITALIAN TOWN ON THE ADRIATIC SEA. SHE PERFORMED EXTENSIVELY IN ITALY, SLOVENIA AND CROATIA IN MANY WELL ESTABLISHED VENUES AND FESTIVALS, SINGING IN JAZZ, POP AND FUNK BANDS BEFORE CHOOSING TO PERFORM MOSTLY THE BRAZILIAN SONGS REPERTOIRE. SHE HAS PERFORMED AND RECORDED WITH MUSICIANS SUCH AS ANDREA ALLIONE (PAOLO CONTE), PIETRO TONOLO (PAUL MOTIAN, GIL EVANS ORCHESTRA), GLAUCO VENIER (KENNY WHEELER, NORMA WINSTONE), ELVIS STANIć (GILBERTO GIL, DJANGO BATES), LUIS BONILLA (MINGUS BIG BAND, LESTER BOWIE), AMONGST MANY OTHERS. ALONGSIDE HER PERFORMING CAREER, SHE HAS BEEN A MUSIC TEACHER AND A RADIO HOST. SHE HAS AUTHORED AND HOSTED INNUMERABLE MUSIC RADIO SHOWS, WELCOMING IN HER PROGRAMMES ANY INTERESTING MUSICAL STYLE, AND INTERVIEWING DOZENS OF MUSICIANS, AS WELL AS OTHER MUSIC-RELATED PROFESSIONALS. SHE STARTED PERFORMING HER OWN COMPOSITIONS RELATIVELY RECENTLY, AFTER DEFENDING HER GRADUATION THESIS ON FIVE OF HER COMPOSITIONS IN RELATION TO RHYTHMIC DIDACTICS. ONE OF HER COMPOSITIONS, NU-MI (DANZA), HAS BEEN AWARDED THE 1° PREMIO NAZIONALE DELLE ARTI IN ROME AND HAS BEEN RECORDED BY OTHER MUSICIANS IN THREE DIFFERENT ALBUMS. SOON AFTER MOVING TO LONDON IN 2009, SHE TOURED IN EUROPE AND CANADA WITH THE IRISH CULT BAND THE COMMITMENTS AND PERFORMED WITH SOME OF THE BEST MUSICIANS ON THE LONDON SCENE. HER ALBUM TACTUS, TO BE RELEASED IN 2014, IS HER FIRST ORIGINAL PROJECT. IT FEATURES 12 SONGS WRITTEN BETWEEN 1999 AND 2009 THAT COME FROM DIFFERENT INSPIRATIONS, COMBINING A TASTE FOR ITALIAN MELODY AND PLAYFULLY ASYMMETRIC HARMONY AND RHYTHMS.