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It's like staring at the sun for one hour.

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Otherworldly!

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My God. I can't decide if this is insanely beautiful or beautifuly insane!

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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.

He is a guitarist, composer, arranger, researcher, and inventor.

With four Degrees in Music and Communications, he was the first Artist in Residence in the history of Saint Francis University in Pennsylvania (founded in 1847). He was also the first solo guitarist to perform at the Carnegie Museum of Art (PA, USA).

In 2016 he was granted with 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.

Thanks to his passion for research, Paolo Schianchi has retrieved unpublished manuscripts by Renaissance composer Santino Garsi da Parma. After more than four centuries, he restored, analyzed and transcribed these works for guitar. The works had been essentially abandoned by the musicology community for an unfortunate sequence of events, but they were actually among the most popular and most performed during the Renaissance period. This was confirmed by several sources of the time, including manuscripts by Vincenzo Galilei, Galileo Galilei’s father. Inspired by these same manuscripts, Paolo wrote the music for the concert-show Cambi di Tempo (Changes In Time) reshaping Garsi’s works and transferring them to jazz, rock and progressive re-elaborations, demonstrating that genre has no limits.

Paolo Schianchi has received national and international awards (Giovani Talenti, Rovere D’Oro, Ermo Colle, …) both as a guitarist and composer. He has written, arranged, and recorded music in classical, pop and rock styles: for the solo album of Red Canzian (the Pooh band, which is the most important pop group in Italy’s recording industry, with over 100 million records sold over 50 years), which reached fifth place in the top selling album national chart; for Bernardo Lanzetti (PFM), in an album which stars Steve Hackett (Genesis); for theatrical shows (with the Italian actress Maddalena Crippa, Alessandro Haber and many others); and for movies, including “Somewhere Tonight” starring John Turturro and directed by Michael Di Jiacomo.

Paolo had been chosen from among thousands of artists by the Italian National Television for the show “New Talents”, and Red Canzian decided to produce his solo album by choosing him among over two thousand artists.

His solo concert, entitled Instrumental Metamorphoses (Metamorfosi Strumentali), for which he worked on the music, script, direction, technical equipment, quadraphonic and hexaphonic spatialisation, has attracted the attention and critical acclaim of experts and enthusiasts, together with a unanimously enthusiastic response from both critics and the public, and the recognition of Peter Stein, one of the world’s leading theatre directors.

He has performed solo concerts in theatres, squares and auditoriums in Italy and in the US, consistently receiving enthusiastic acclaim by both critics and audience, and often to a full house.

He has performed on several occasions as a soloist, always exclusively live, at several national tv shows in Italy (RAI, mediaset) and on American networks (WTAJ), 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, RSI, etc. In 2017 he was also invited by the Italian TV show “Tu Si Que Vales” (the equivalent of America’s Got Talent) on prime time, where he has received great acclaim and where his performance hit the national viewing record with almost 6 million people watching.

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 Tube Traps and historical consultant of Bruce Swedien, the producer for Michael Jackson, 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.