Guitar Lab
with Paolo Schianchi
«If you can dream it, you can do it!»
Enzo Ferrari
Guitar Lab
Guitar Lab is an innovative music course for young musicians aiming to become professionals, which gives them the chance to expand their musical horizons, covering numerous genres of music and performing techniques.
Thanks to Guitar Lab, students will come in contact with Paolo Schianchi, an international artist and innovator considered by many as one of the best guitar players and composers in Italy. They will learn new strategic skills for their music, spanning from arranging techniques, to production techniques, to specific repertoires, and much more.
Every lesson will be professionally video recorded, so that the students will have the opportunity to understand how to deal with a recording session. They will also become skilled in such scenarios, and ready for their future challenges, including live concerts, etc.
Moreover, by the end of the program students will not only have documentation of their progress, but also the beginning of a video portfolio to help take their academic and professional career to the next level.
PAOLO SCHIANCHI
Guitarist, composer, arranger, researcher, inventor
Paolo Schianchi is an out-of-the-ordinary musician and performer, able to master all existing variations of the guitar, from the Renaissance lute to electric guitars,to unique instruments which he has created.
Among them, a 49-string guitar he personally designed, made specially for him by the Argentine luthier Carlos Roberto Michelutti, and the Octopus® guitar system. The Octopus® is an electro-acoustic system that is currently unique worldwide, which enables him to play several guitars contemporaneously using both hands and feet, mixing and manipulating their sounds in real time and exclusively live.
In 2016 he was granted a special visa for life (Green Card EB-1) for “artists with extraordinary abilities”, the most difficult to get in the USA, usually destined for Nobel Prizes.
Paolo Schianchi has received national and international awards both as a guitarist and composer. He has written, arranged, and recorded music in classical, pop and rock styles for several artists, and for theatrical shows and movies, including “Somewhere Tonight” starring John Turturro and directed by Michael Di Jiacomo.
Paolo has performed on several occasions at several national tv shows in Italy and on American networks, and he has been a special guest on major events (i.e. Expo Universal Exposition in 2015, TED in 2017) and prestigious venues such as the Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome.
Paolo is able to combine and mix different styles and genres of music in one performance, exploring new sound and possibilities thanks to his unique and original instruments.
He is the founder of the OmniaMusica Recording Studio, the only one in Italy designed with the help of Art Noxon (Acoustic Sciences Corporation, USA), inventor of the revolutionary Tube Traps, who believed in his talent.
Paolo is also the creator and director of the “Innovatory of Music”, the international project born with the intention of helping the most talented young people in Italy and the United States, giving them the opportunity to play overseas and to embark on a musical career.
