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Born in Pisa, Italy, and based in the New York City area, Marco Accattatis has been playing the bass guitar and writing music for the past 26 years. Marco began his music studies at age 8 on acoustic guitar but it wasn't until later on that he had the opportunity to play the bass guitar. This happened when his older brother Livio asked him to join his rock'n'roll band. Originally self taught he began studying with various teachers as he realized that music was becoming a carreer. A few years later he moved to the U.S. to attend Berklee College of Music in Boston, after having being awarded a scholarship at the Berklee summer clinics at the Umbria Jazz Festival in Perugia, Italy. After graduating summa cum laude in composition and performance he relocated to New York City upon being offered a three year residency at the NYU New Music And Dance Ensemble at New York University where he collaborated with choreographer Douglas Dunn. He now lives in Jersey City, NJ where he teaches, writes, and records. Over the years Marco has had the pleasure to share the stage with many talented artists such as Andy Anderson, Randy Brecker, Kristy Cates, Yanick Etienne, B.D. Lenz, Lew Soloff, Tony Trischka, Frankie Valli, Shawn 'Thunder' Wallace, and Sigourney Weaver. His radio, TV, and film credits include Fox, MTV, MTVLA, NJN, WISC-TV, E Town, WBQX, WFUV, WKXW, WNJU, and WRUW. His compositions have been performed in Europe and the United Sates. As an arranger, Marco has worked for the UK based music production and publishing company Artemis Music. Aside from teaching and working Marco is also pursuing a master's degree in musicology at Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University.
Marco's performance history can be viewed here.
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