About this Event
A Steinway Artist and Universal Music recording artist, Cavestri belongs to a generation that hears no border between jazz, electronics, hip-hop and the classical tradition. Born in Bologna in 2003 and trained between the Conservatorio G.B. Martini, Berklee and The New School in New York, he has been named Musica Jazz youngest "New Talent of the Year" three years running (2023–2025) and listed in Forbes Italia Under 30. His fourth album, NOÈ, was released in May 2026 on Universal Music Italia Classics & Jazz.
The programme:
I. The London Concert, Pt. 1 - Full Improvisation
The evening opens with nothing written down. In the lineage of Keith Jarrett's solo concerts - and continuing a practice Cavestri has already brought to the stage of Malta's Teatru Manoel - the first movement is composed entirely in the moment, built out of the exchange of energy with the audience in the room.
II. The London Concert, Pt. 2 - My British Influences
A gift to the country that hosts the concert: the British music that shaped Cavestri's sound, reimagined for solo piano. Massive Attack, Radiohead, Brian Eno, The Verve, and George Frideric Handel - London's adopted composer. Four centuries of music, brought on board and carried into Cavestri’s contemporary jazz language.
III. The London Concert, Pt. 3 - NOÈThe suite closes with NOÈ, the new album by Francesco Cavestri, a journey between contemporary jazz trio, electronic sounds and orchestral arrangements. Released in May 2026, the album takes the ark as a figure for what music can carry across: the sounds of a generation raised on jazz, hip-hop and electronics, gathered into a single vessel. Here those pieces return to where they began: the intimate and most personal form of the solo piano.
Biogrpahy:
Born in Bologna in 2003, Francesco Cavestri is one of the most distinctive voices of the new generation of European jazz. A Steinway Artist and a recording artist for Universal Music Italia (Classics & Jazz), he has developed a musical language that moves freely between jazz improvisation, contemporary electronics, hip-hop sampling and the classical tradition, bringing together worlds that rarely share the same stage.
His training reflects this breadth. After his studies at the G.B. Martini Conservatory in Bologna, he continued his education in the United States at Berklee College of Music and at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in New York.
Recognition came early. Francesco was named "New Talent of the Year" by the Italian magazine Musica Jazz for three consecutive years (2023, 2024 and 2025), was included in the Forbes Italia Under 30 list for Entertainment in 2025, and received the IJVAS prize.
His discography includes Early17, IKI – Bellezza Ispiratrice and Una Morte da Mediano. His fourth album, NOÈ, was released on 29 May 2026 by Universal Music Italia. The record is a journey through the many musical languages that have shaped Francesco's identity, from electronic influences to solo piano, from jazz trio to the closing track "Souvenir di un Bacio", featuring the Budapest Scoring Orchestra. The album was anticipated by the singles "The Essence of Beauty" and "FREEDOM".
Over the years, Francesco has shared the stage and the studio with some of the most important names in Italian music, including trumpeters Paolo Fresu and Fabrizio Bosso, saxophonist Stefano Di Battista, and singers Malika Ayane, Irene Grandi and Francesco Baccini. With rapper Willie Peyote he created "Entropia", a song presented at the Triennale Milano in October 2024, a clear example of his ability to connect jazz with contemporary urban culture.
In his album "IKI - Bellezza Ispiratrice" Cavestri has also worked with Cleon Edwards, drummer for Erykah Badu, Lauryn Hill, Shaun Martin,...
His live performances have taken him to venues such as the Blue Note in Milan, where he played multiple-times to sold-out audiences, the historic Teatru Manoel in Malta, Piazza Maggiore in Bologna, Jazz Bistro in Toronto, and many more. His 2026 season also includes the Bologna Jazz Festival and concerts in New York, Chicago, Hamburg, Dubai, Köln, Toronto, Brussels, Prague, and many more.
Event venue & nearby stays
Steinway Hall, 44 Marylebone Lane, London, United Kingdom
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