Riccardo Ascani was born in Rome (italy) in 1965 and is a flamenco guitarist and composer from the jazzistic past. Before being completely involved in flamenco he played with a lot of famous jazz players like George Coleman, Joe Pass, Jim Kelly, Antonello Salis, Pippo Matino, Massimo Urbani.
In 1991 he won a plaque of merit issued by the Berklee College of Music in Boston. In 1992 he takes contacts with the great masters of the flamenco guitar ( Paco de Lucia, Gerardo Nunez, Manolo Sanlucar, Serranito, Juan Manuel Canizares, Rafael Riqueni) and with the most important association and academy of flamenco like the famous Pena flamenca "los Cernicalos" of Jerez de la Frontera.

Today Riccardo Ascani has played in the best clubs and theatres of Italy and Europe and is above all the author of own musical project, his last two albums, called respectively "Byzantine" and "De vida y Amor" (also available on iTunes), trend towards the combination between flamenco, classical, jazz and pop music, searching a musicality without too many labels and kind distinctions. We want also remind the Riccardo Ascani collaboration with the dancer Cristina Benitez and with the vocal female trio "Appassionante" recording his guitar on the album "Salve".

Among his recent shows and concerts we remember:

• Peña flamenca los caracoles in Bern (Swisse) 27/11/2010;
• Teatro Titano in San Marino (San Marino) 20/11/2010;
• Anteprima Mundus in Carpi (Italy) 27/04/2010 with E.Rava, D.Kinzelmann, U.Caine, J.Girotto;
• Festival Suoni e voci mediterranei in Castellabate (Salerno)with Teresa de Sio and Stefano Palatresi 21/08/2008;
• Caroso Classical guitar international festival (Latina) 26/06/2008 with R.Aguirre and J.Falù.