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Federico Ficarra is a guitarist, singer, multi-instrumentalist, and composer. In addition to this, Fik deals with teaching, and with Social Media, Booking and Band Management. He collaborates, alongside musician producer Fosco17 Luca Jacoboni, with record promoter Marco Stanzani who collaborated with artists such as Pino Daniele, Lunapop, and Lucio Dalla.
Fik lived for 4 years in Berlin: he played (guitar and voice) in several very famous clubs such as the SO36 (David Bowie was cheered on by both the public and musicians to take the stage at the height of his Berlin period), the Insomnia-Nightclub, the Brunnen70, the Kit Kat Klub (Liza Minnelli, the venue where the Love Parade was born) where he led a festival from he designed called Karneval of Love, the Sony Center at Potsdamer Platz, Hotels such as the Circus Hotel at Rosenthaler Platz. Jazz Clubs such as B-Flat, Waldo Bar, Ernst, Zosch, and Naked Jazz Festival were exported from New York to Berlin by drummer Eric Vaughn. He has been invited 2 times to play at the Yorckschlösschen Home of Jazz & Blues. The main newspaper Berliner Morgenpost dedicated an article to him with photos on the front and inside pages. In Berlin, he collaborated with Milo Lombardi, Charles Sammons, Lars Karlin, Roland Satterwhite, Pinar Tatlikazan, Seraphim Greno Bradel, Mike Basden, and others.
In Italy he played as a soloist for 2 years at the Ritz Hotel in Abano; in Venice 1 year at the Moresco Hotel and a few months at the Carlton Hotel on the Grand Canal, restaurant, and Top Of The Carlton Sky Lounge. With his band and other previous formations (blues and jazz) he has played in many venues in Padua (ex-Mame, current Parco della Musica, Caffè Pedrocchi, Palazzo Zuckermann, Osteria Barabba, Pedro, and many others), Venice (Hard Rock Cafè, Al Vapore, Forte Marghera, Paradiso Perduto...), Vicenza (Vinyl, Rive Jazz Club), other cities in Veneto, Friuli Venezia Giulia (Trieste, Sofar Sound), Trentino, Lazio (Rome) and Lombardy. He has played in 2 editions of the Sherwood Festival (one as a soloist, one in a marching band) and other local festivals such as Yucca, Navigli, Oktoberfest, or Folk Festivals. In Italy, he collaborated with Glauco Benedetti (Jovanotti), Giovanni Perin, Giulio Tullio (Elio), Michele Uliana, Edoardo Brunella, Alessandro Brunetta, Stefano Cosi, Sergio Gonzo, Tommaso Piron, Amedeo Schiavon and many others.
In the past he studied theater acting, in particular comedy and impromptu, and worked with well-known directors and actors from the Teatro Verdi in Padua and the Teatro Piccolo in Milan: Lorenzo Maragoni and Giorgio Sangati. Fik obtained the Theory and Solfeggio License with Maestro S. Lanza, and 2 degree diplomas, one in "Computer Music and Sound Design" (in particular studying classical piano with Maestro G. Di Toma), the other recently in " Jazz guitar” studying with Masters M. Tonolo (jazz piano, arrangement), D. Santimone (guitar) and F. Angiuli (ensemble music, history), both with top marks at the Cesare Pollini Conservatory in Padua; here he created with Alvise Vidolin, Luigi Nono's sound director, an audio installation with binaural synthesis and motion capture that was greatly appreciated by Ennio Chiggio of the N Group of Padua. He was admitted to the Berklee College of Music summer courses at the highest level (IV), studying with Jon Damian and Jim Kelly at the Umbria Jazz Festival. At the Gershwin school in Padua, he attended a specialization course with the jazz singer Alessia Obino.
