Odradek Team - Odradek Records

Administration

John Anderson

General Manager, Classical Producer

Project Odradek

John Anderson is a classical pianist with two performance degrees from the Accademia Musicale Pescarese and a degree in musicology from the University of Oxford. He is the founder and general manager of Odradek Records, of GhostLabel.net, the white-label marketing and distribution service, and the inventor of the democratic blind evaluation platform ANONYMUZE.com. He is owner of Studio Odradek (in Italy), and manager of Ashlar LC, a Kansas property management firm dedicated to historical preservation and “adaptive reuse”. He teaches pre-academy piano courses at the Accademia Musicale Pescarese.

Pina Napolitano

Co-founder

Project Odradek

Pina Napolitano made a splash with this debut CD in 2012: Norman Lebrecht shortlisted it for his Sinfini Music Album of the Year; Guy Rickards in International Piano Magazine called the CD “outstanding”, citing the “tensile strength to her playing that is distinctly hers”, and Calum MacDonald in BBC Music Magazine gave it five stars for its “rare penetration, understanding, grace and elegance”.

Pina Napolitano is, through her teacher Bruno Mezzena, a grand-student of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Her recent focus has been the music of the Second Viennese School, which she considers not as a primarily intellectual venture, but a highly emotional and expressive one – “wholly saturated with expression” (Österreichische Musikzeitschrift), a “perfect conjunction between microcellular dissection and almost heartbreaking expressive sensitivity” (Ritmo), a “heady romanticism both irresistible and unsettling” (Arts Desk).

Enrique Valverde Tenreiro

General Manager

Odradek Records

Enrique Valverde is since September 2017 the General Manager of Odradek Records. A music consultant specialized in classical music, he has worked for the Spanish Centro Nacional de Difusión Musical (CNDM), the most important music promoter in Spain. He is also founder and director of ExpoClásica, the first Classical Music expo in Spain, and has worked for Universal Music Spain, Caja Madrid Foundation and several other music foundations, agencies and orchestras.

Andie Chantzi

Project Manager

Project Odradek

Andie has a linguistic and cultural formation, including BAs in French Studies (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki), in Hispanic Studies (Hellenic Open University), and an MSc from the Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh, in Cultural Management & Policy.
She has worked in festivals both in Greece and abroad (Edinburgh International Film Festival, Athens International Film Festival, Thessaloniki International Film Festival, Imaginate-Bank of Scotland Children Theatre Festival, Contemporary Music Festival Synthermia), as well as a Freelance Programming & Events Manager at the Municipal Enterprise for Cultural, Sports & Environmental Development of Thermi-Thessaloniki. She is also an independent artist – her works can be found in Metamorfosis Gallery, Thessaloniki.

Production

Tommaso Tuzj

Photographer, Videographer

With a background in television, Tommaso Tuzj decided to dedicate himself to photography, opening Hoshi Studio in 2009, and working as Odradek’s primary photographer since Odradek’s opening in 2012. He brings with him his passion for photography and cinematography, with a constant search for new points of view. Alto Riot calls Odradek “a leader in visual identity… The genre as a whole can learn a lot from the art direction of Odradek Records. Their album art brings a sense of naturalness to their artist roster and in a sense a greater respect for their music and the listener.”

Thomas Vingtrinier

Director, Mixing and Mastering Engineer

Studio Sequenza, Paris

A trained engineer (Ecole Polytechnique, ENST Paris), Thomas has developed solid skills in acoustics and analogue and digital sound processing at – among others – IRCAM, CNR Boulogne and in contact with Radio France’s teams. Twenty years of instrumental practice in orchestras have enabled him to speak the same creative and technical language as the musicians he records.

Thomas has worked with numerous artists/composers from different backgrounds, such as Tigran Hamasyan, Jacques Coursil, Robert Kaddouch, Martial Solal, Gary Peacock, Alexander Muller, Laura Littardi, Saied Shanbezadeh, Nawal, Olivier Calmel, Frédéric Sans, Philippe Hurrel, Karol Beffa, Bruno Gillet, Natalie Dessay, Vincent Bouchot, Frédéric Laroque, Bertrand Cervera, Daniel Wagner, Anne Gravoin, Alexis Descharmes, Renaud et Gauthier Capucon, Xavier Philipps et Jean-Marc Philips-Varjabédian, Michel Strauss, Macha Beloussova…

Marcello Malatesta

General Manager

Studio Odradek

PIANIST\\AUDIO DESIGNER\\COMPOSER\\ARRANGER\\ sessionman for M° Ennio Morricone, M° Nicola Piovani and M° Germano Mazzocchetti also cooperate in various projects with musicians of Italian and international jazz scene. Uscitanord, Rolli’s Tones Big Band, M-Edit Ensamble, Alessandro Gwis, Luca Pirozzi, Pippo Matino, Luca Bulgarelli, Fabrizio Bosso, Stefano Micarelli, Daniele Tittarelli, Dado Moroni, Massimo Manzi, Armando Sciommeri, Marco Siniscalco, Andrea Avena, Antonio Onorato, Speakin’4, Otmaro Ruiz, Israel Varela, Maurizio Rolli, Peter Erskine, Bob Mintzer, Dario Deidda, Franco D’Andrea, Max Ionata, Javier Girotto, Franco Mezzena, Kelly Joice, Franco Cerri, Lutte Berg, Gianluca Esposito, Mauro Grossi, John B Arnold, Maurizio Giammarco, Flavio Boltro, John Stowel, Alex Acuna, Angelo Valori, Phyllis Blandford, Diana Torto, Angelo Trabucco, Giuliano Mazzoccante, Gilda Buttà, Marco Di Battista, Michele Campanella, Alexander Lonquic…

Francesco Lupi

Project Manager

Tube Studio

Francesco has recorded and mixed jazz albums for Tube Recording Studio since 2012. Francesco works as a studio and live sound engineer, and serves as the sound engineer of Fara Music Festival and Sabina Music Summer as well. His collaborations include: Roy Hargrove Quintet, Roberta Gambarini Quintet, Shai Maestro, Kevin Hays, Gilad Hekselman, Jonathan Kreisberg, Michael Rosen, Coparoom, Fabio Zeppetella, Reuben Rogers, Matt Penman, Greg Hutchinson, Filippo Cosentino, Unicam Jazz Quartet, Mynah, Andrea Garibaldi, Alessandro Deledda Quartet feat. Francesco Bearzatti, Francesco Mascio Trio feat. Luca Aquino…