Nicola Guida
Biography Nicola Guida
Nicola Guida
is an Italian pianist, composer and producer. Based in London, he is emerging as one of the most inspired Italian jazz musicians of the new generation. Mentored by Barry Harris, Peter Martin, Aaron Goldberg, Greg Burk and Danilo Rea, Guida creates an original sound space, where the piano gesture is both elegant and underground at the same time. Nicola Guida performed on the stages of Umbria Jazz, Roma Jazz Festival, Electrik Jinja Tokyo, Jazzit Fest, Unit31 London, Vladí Mladí Jazz Prague, Heart London, Tuscia in Jazz, Macro Roma, just to name a few. His collaborations include some of the most renowned Italian and international musicians such as Lee Pearson, Greg Osby, Fabio Zeppetella, John B. Arnold, Rosario Giuliani, Paolo Damiani, Beppe Vessicchio, Alita Moses, Ryo Shibata, AINÉ, Tatsuo Sunaga, Charles Burchell, Yoshihito P Koizumi, Alex Braga, Gaetano Partipilo, Sheila Maurice Grey, Neue Grafik, Khalab and many others. In 2015 he won the award as best soloist at the Fara Music Jazz Festival, and he was among the winners of the first edition of AIR in 2017, a project promoted by the Italian Jazz Musicians Association and Italian Society of Authors and Publishers, which led him to spend a month residency at the Italian Cultural Institute, in Tokyo. In 2019 he won the Jazzfruit International Award at Mladí Ladí Jazz, in Prague. His debut album, Speleology, is about to be released by the end of 2020 via Inner Circle Music, a prestigious American label founded by the legendary Greg Osby, and distributed worldwide by AWAL - London.
