Biography

Christian Tola was born in Oristano (Sardinia).  He graduated in Foreign Languages in   2001 and in Jazz at the conservatory of Cagliari in 2012. He's a composer and an arranger.  He realized two albums: "Sì!" (2007) recorded and mixed in Cagliari and "The groove machine" (2012) which was realized in Sweden at the PItea's Musik Shkolan. On both albums Christian is the author of music, lyrics and arrangements.
As author and singer he took part in several contests and festivals of national relevance, such as "Premio Mia Martini" (2007), "Premio Poggio Bustone"  and "Pop Rock Contest" (2008), "Premio Andrea Parodi (2009) and the jazz festivals "Villa Celimontana" (2009) and "European jazz Expo" (2011 -  as a member of the Be Bop Lab Collective).
Together with the rock band Roymann he won the 3rd edition of the festival "Artes et Sonos" (Ruinas - 1999).
From the middle of 90's nowadays he was member of several bands as a singer and a keyboard-player and explored different kind of music, such as jazz (Qsdaz Quartet, Tribute to Chet Baker, Be Bop Lab Collective, Grigorij Zaitsev Band), pop and etno-pop (Entos, Logos), rock (FFwCC, Roymann, Trio Drak) and Raggae (Kafemama).
He worked as a musician in many tourist resorts in Italy and abroad.
Christian is currently living in Moscow, where he works as a teacher and a musician and takes an active part in Muscovite musical scene with different projects, especially with the "AXIOM PROJECT" (a mix of electronic and rock music taken form his 2 albums)  and with various  jazz ensembles, as a bandleader or featuring different russian musicians.
In the jazz sphere, the most relevant project is "SWING ITALIANO", which puts together new original songs and some classics of the italian popular music, rearranged in a jazz manner and performed live by a sextet including vocal, piano, double bass, drums, trumpet and saxophone.

Christian says :" .. the project actually originated from a couple of songs that I wrote in the 2 years I spent in Moscow. These songs, in a funny and ironical way,  talk about my everiday life in this city. To that starting point I gradually added new songs and a selection of classical italian songs, plus some tunes  taken from the large italian swing repertory, which are well known in Italy, but almost unknown abroad.