Name: Francesco Turrisi Trio at The Cooler
Start: 2025-02-20T19:30:00+00:00
Location: The Complex Dublin

19:30 Doors
20:00 Music
Exploring the most lyrical of his music over years of composition, Grammy-award-winning pianist and multi-instrumentalist Francesco Turrisi comes to The Cooler with an evening of richly melodic piano trio music, in collaboration with drummer Matthew Jackson and bassist Derek Whyte.
Described as a “musical alchemist” and a “musical polyglot”, by the press, Francesco Turrisi is equally at home playing with jazz veterans Dave Liebman and Bill Frisell as he is with Irish traditional sean-nós singer Roisin El Safty and with tarantella specialist Lucilla Galeazzi.
Turrisi has toured with Bobby McFerrin, played baroque operas with ensemble L'Arpeggiata, toured with The Silk Road ensemble, interpreted the music of Steve Reich with Bang on a Can All Stars, accompanied flamenco star Pepe El Habichuela and Greek singer Savina Yannatou.
He has released five critically acclaimed albums as a leader and two as co-leader (“Tarab” a cross boundary innovative ensemble that blends Irish and Mediterranean traditional music, and “Zahr” a project that looks at connections between southern Italian traditional music and Arabic music).
His latest piano solo album “Northern Migrations” was described as “delicate, wistful and wholly engrossing” by the Irish Times.
Since 2018 he collaborates with American grammy award winning singer and multi-instrumentalist Rhiannon Giddens, on a duo project that seamlessly combines music from the Mediterranean with music from the African diaspora in the Americas. In 2019 Giddens and Turrisi released their critically acclaimed duo album “there is no Other”. The album single “I’m on my way” was nominated for a 2020 Grammy Award. Their 2021 second duo album “They’re calling me home” was nominated for two Grammy awards and won as best folk album at the 2022 Grammy awards.
On stage:
Francesco Turrisi - piano
Derek Whyte - bass
Matthew Jacobson - drums
Further details: https://www.improvisedmusic.ie/whats-happening/events/francesco-turrisi-feb-2025