We are COCOLICHE TRIO

About Us

Cocoliche is a language created by italian immigrants and argentinan locals in Buenos Aires, in the beginning of the 20th century.
Several words and expressions from it are still used nowadays on both sides of the Atlantic.
100 years later, the process reverts: argentinians and italians meet back in Europe, in the middle of an ultra globalized society.
We like to think our project as a result of all this mixture, same as our ancestors once experienced.
Spanish, italian, tango, jazz, latin, meeting back and transforming each other once again, creating a new common language, a new cocoliche: our music.

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  • We live in a world where we need to move quickly and iterate on our ideas as flexibly as possible.

    Mockups are useful both for the creative phase of the project - for instance when you're trying to figure out your user flows or the proper visual hierarchy - and the production phase when they phase when they will represent the target product. Building mockups strikes the ideal balance ease of modification.

    • Client Alvaro Morata
    • Category Detail
    • Date March 07, 2021
Members

About Us

  • Aleksandra Tonelli

    Pianist - Composer

    I am an argentinian-croatian pianist and composer based in the Netherlands. On top of my formal education being classical music and tango music-based

    I am an argentinian-croatian pianist and composer based in the Netherlands. On top of my formal education being classical music and tango music-based, my curiosity always led me to explore new environments and possibilities in my artistic life. I consider myself a creative performer: I am a pianist who aims to create and play her own music and develop her own music style.

    Professionally I have participated as a pianist, arranger and/or composer in many different ensembles internationally: from classical, to tango and jazz/world. I won several prizes and subsidies from national and international institutions, such as Instituto Nacional de la Música, Scholarship Scaramuzza’s piano technique in WKMT studios London, Holland Scholarship by the Dutch Ministry of Education, Culture and Science, Grada Van Beek-Donner Scholarship, Fonds Podium Kunsten NL, Stichting Droom en Daad, SENA Fonds, Gemeente Rotterdam, and Amartefonds.

    Currently I perform as bandleader, pianist and composer/arranger of Quinteto Irreal and Cocoliche Trio as well as my own interdisciplinary project “SmartMusic! An Audiovisual Adventure” mixing tango, latin american rhythms and jazz/funk music.

    Since 2018 I live in Rotterdam, Netherlands, where I became a Master of Music in World Music (piano tango/jazz composition) at CODARTS University of Arts, where I currently work as an Artistic Research Coach from the Masters Tango and Performance Practice Departments.

    I also work as a freelance pianist, composer and arranger, collaborating with ensembles and artists around the world.

  • Giuseppe Bordasco

    Bass

    Giuseppe Bordasco is an Italian bass player based in the city of Rotterdam.

    Giuseppe Bordasco is an Italian bass player based in the city of Rotterdam.

    Giuseppe studied in Italy under the guidance of the Italian bass player Maurizio Rolli. He graduated with him at Pescara Conservatory “Luisa D’Annunzio" in both Pop (Bachelor) and Jazz (Master), before applying to Codarts in Rotterdam and graduating in World Music (Master), where he focused on Brazilian music.

    Along with his studies, he has been able to keep an heterogeneous concert schedule, playing with numerous bands and performing different styles in both Italy and Netherlands. He is currently composing and arranging along with Aleksandra Tonelli in Cocoliche Trio, combining styles stretching between Argentinian folklore, Jazz and Funk and also independently co-writing, co-arranging and playing for Banda Matatu.

    He is the bass player of other bands as Los Paja Brava and Tra trio as well as a session musician of numerous other projects and bands of the Netherlands. On top of his work in the Netherlands, he performs and sings in Bad Trio, lead by Matteo Fioretti in Italy.

  • Luis Mora Matus

    Drummer - Composer

    At the moment, Luis is doing a Ph.D. in the Arts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

    Luis Mora Matus is a Chilean drummer/composer currently living in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. At the moment, Luis is doing a Ph.D. in the Arts at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel and the Vrije Universiteit Brussel.

    The focus of his research is the expansion of contemporary jazz soloing vocabulary by adapting tools and techniques from contemporary progressive metal.

    As a performing musician, he has recorded over 20 albums. He is currently working with the Dutch/Polish band Quantum Trio, the Colombian/Curaçaoan singer Juliana Martina, the contemporary jazz band Plink, the Italian avant-garde pianist Piergiorgio Pirro, the South-American instrumental folk Cocoliche Trio, and many others. In his free time, Luis likes to experiment with different musical ideas. One of those ideas is called “Classical Jazz Drumming,” in which he plays along to classical pieces and reinterprets them as they were contemporary jazz pieces.

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