Since 2003 the Bruskers are Matteo Minozzi and Eugenio Polacchini.
The main feature of this guitar ensemble is the synthesis of the two different musical worlds and ways of understanding the guitar which reflect the musical education of the two musicians. Polacchini, who graduated in Classical guitar, epitomizes the typical “classical music player”, always capable of reaching the perfect execution, Minozzi instead studied under the direction of different guitar players and shows the artistic flair and the unconventionality of contemporary and jazz music. The two musicians share and combine their personalities in this experience and the result is an extremely various and eccentric mixture of ideas, sounds, and rhythms, whose contrasts are set apart by the common savoir-faire in favour of a inspired and original end product.
At the beginning busking was the main interest of the duo. They have performed at several street festivals in Italy as well as abroad. In the last few years they have been looking for more intimate atmospheres: they have privileged art exhibitions, theatre shows, private events. They’ve also had fun in joining some local radio station events. Minozzi and Polacchini are both teachers of the Music School of the “Fondazione C.G. Andreoli”, and solo guitar players in the Lybra Guitar Orchestra. The Bruskers have performed in Italy, France, Germany, Austria, Belgium, Hungary, and Portugal. They recorded their first cd in 2006, Blue Bruskers, a live collection of jazz and bossanova standards.
In July 2009 the Bruskers presented their brand new work: a CD named Guitar Sketch, a musical sketch which takes famous jazz standards as its starting point and leads them to an unconventional and daring mixture of original rhythms, creative ideas and ingenious virtuosity.
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