Draft:Simone Valla

Simone Valla is a Jazz and Classic Saxophonist born in Campagnola Emilia, on 23 October 1970. He's based in Carpi, Emilia-Romagna.

Simone Valla studied in the conservatories of Carpi, Bologna and Parma, where he had completed his studies in classical and jazz saxophone, and music didactics obtaining the qualification for teaching the saxophone in middle schools and high schools with a musical focus. He won two scholarship in the academic year 1996 with the tutor Angelo Gabrielli. He perfected his studies with the masters Jean Marie Londeix, Tomaso Lama, Mauro Negri. Since the end of the ’90s he has been performed in a lot of musical groups, ranging from the classical music to jazz. In 2007 he obtained a permanent position to teach the saxophone at the middle school with a musical focus “Alberto Pio”, in the town of Carpi. In 2011 he made his own saxophone quartet version of the Miles Davis’ famous album “Kind of Blue”.