Umberto Petrin

Starting from 1986 he intensified his musical activity, forming a quartet and occasionally performed with the Big Band of the RAI in Milan.

He tackles free jazz and works on a fusion project between improvised music and poetry through the collaboration with one of the greatest Italian sound poets: Luigi Pasotelli.

He attends the most current musical styles and performs alongside leaders such as: Steve Lacy, Lee Konitz, Anthony Braxton, Lester Bowie, Barry Altschul, Enrico Rava, Tim Berne, Paul Lovens, Paul Rutherford, Han Bennik, Willem Breuker, Marc Ducret, Michael Moore,[3] with many of whom he also makes record publications.

During this meeting a duo of pianos emerged which the international press described as "an event" and which is reported on the CD "The Owner of the River Bank" (ENJA, 2004).

Considered one of the major interpreters of Thelonious Monk's music, together with the writer and poet Stefano Benni, he constructs a recital on the figure of the great pianist titled Misterioso.

The performance had already been repeated about 20 times in European Festivals and Museums (at the 52nd Biennale of Contemporary Art in Venice, at the Greek Amphitheater in Sparta, Spain, at the Auditorium in Girona, at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, at the Spectrum in New York, at the theaters of Pisa, Naples, Grosseto, Bologna, Pescara, Verbania…).

At the same time he collaborates with the actors Giuseppe Cedena, Lella Costa, Maurizio Crozza, Neri Marcorè, Ugo Dighero, David Riondino[6] and with the writer Paolo Nori.

In 2011 Beuys Voice also becomes a book and a CD, published by Mondadori Electa and officially presented at the Kunsthaus in Zurich, with the vocal support of soprano Susie Helena Georgiadis.

In 2020 he formed The Lunatics group together with Tino Tracanna (sax), Roberto Cecchetto (guitar) and Francesco D'Auria (percussion).

Umberto Petrin, who does not renounce to apply his personal vision to this work as well, has chosen to derive the name of the new album from one of the most famous hits of the band, the homonymous song "Everybody Dance" of 1977, to which he connects an important part of his youth.