Harmonica player and composer Giuseppe Milici has played as a soloist on some very popular Italian televisions programs, including Serata d'onore, Fantastico, Uno su cento, Il Numero Uno, Festival di Sanremo, Un Natale Italiano, and Taratatta. In 1990 he became a member of the first European Jazz Orchestra. He played on the original movie soundtrack of The Magician, starring Antony Quinn, and Vaniglia e Cioccolata, starring Maria Grazia Cucinotta. He has also played on the soundtracks for the television series Avvocato Porta, starring Gigi Proietti, and Tutti i sogni del mondo, starring Serena Autieri. He composed the soundtrack for La terramadre, screened at the 2008 Berlin Film Festival.
He has toured in the U.S.A. (the Blue Note in New York), Greece, Holland, Switzerland, Morocco, Australia, England, France, Argentina, Germany, South Africa, Swaziland and Mozambique.
He has recorded several CDs and has collaborated with such artists as Peter Cincotti, Gianni Morandi, Toots Thielemans, Gino Paoli, Gigi D'Alessio, Lina Sastri, Dirotta su Cuba, Tullio De Piscopo, Amii Stewart, Fabrizio Bosso, Philip Catherine, Franco Cerri, Irio De Paola, Laura Fygi, Lighea, James Newton, I Ragazzi Italiani, Gegè Telesforo, Antonella Ruggiero, Pietra Montecorvino, Alessandro Haber, Riccardo Pazzaglia, Beatrice Luzzi, Edoardo Siravo, Beppe Vessicchio, Zoltan Pesco, Massimo Ghini, Vince Tempera, and Sabina Guzzanti. Recordings under his own name include Beatles Jazz Tribute (presented at the Paris Fashion Week) and the Burt Bacharach Jazz Tribute, with Eliot Zigmund, Bill Moring and Mauro Schiavone. Milici also played as soloist with the Sofia Symphony Orchestra at Teatro La Fenice in Venice. He recently worked with Pippo Baudo for “900” TV program and he’s actually guest of Rai 2 program “I Fatti Vostri”.
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