| Alex Milella is an arranger, guitarist and musical programmer. He started his musical career at the age of 6 studying classical piano. At the age of 13 he moved on to the guitar, studying at a private school and later teaching himself to play. During this time Alex also played live with bands at the clubs of his home town.
Around the age of 18 Alex attended specialist classes at Siena Jazz with the teachers Tomaso Lama, Amedeo Tommasi, Giancarlo Schiaffini, Marcello Piras and Mick Goodrich. The experience made Alex focus his musical studies on jazz and modern harmony.
In July 1995 Alex Milella attained a technical diploma in Musical Composition, Arrangement and Programming at the Department of New Technologies of the Higher Musical Specialization School in Saluzzo, managed by Corrado Buffa. His teachers included Emanuele Ruffinengo, Marti Jane Robertson, Gianni Nocenzi and Giancarlo Gazzani.
Alex also worked with several live line-ups, including musicians such as: Crystal White, Cheryl Porter and Bobby Dhuram (along with the band "Black & Blues" in the first edition of the "San Nicolas Gospel Festival"); Artur Miles – a relative of Wes Montgomery (with the band "Melting Pot"); Jurgen Seefelder (with the "Variabile Jazz Orchestra" of the Piccinni Conservatoire of Bari); Jenny B. (with the Bari Province's Symphony Orchestra" for the rock opera "Jesus Christ Superstar"); Luca Cacucciolo, Claudio Colasazza, Nico Marziliano, Davide Santorsola, Pierluigi Balducci, Giuseppe Bassi, Vito Di Modugno, Leopoldo Sebastiani, Fabio Accardi, Giuseppe Berlen, Mimmo Campanale, Pippo D'Ambrosio, Michele Di Monte, Guido Di Leone, Michele Carrabba, Felice Mezzina and Rocco Ventrella.
Alex Milella has been teaching guitar for over fifteen years covering skills such as, jazz harmony, dialectics in modern improvisation, history of Rock and computer music. Also, for the last five years, he has been working along side the "Il Pentagramma", one of the biggest and well known music schools in Italy.
Alex Milella is also a writer and contributor the famous Italian guitar magazine: "AXE Magazine".
In 2004, Alex Milella released the critically acclaimed solo CD "Light Shades", an exceptional album, highlighting his excellent production skills and capturing his fluidly elegant, legato technique. |
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