The Tolga Trio was founded in 1998 in Amsterdam by guitarist Tolga During. Inspired by the great Django Reinhardt he chose a line up of lead guitar, rhythm guitar and double bass. The intention was not so much to reproduce the style of Django, but to use it as a starting point for more musical explorations. The main part of the groups repertoire is written by Tolga, and in his compositions one can hear musical influences from the Balkan, France, Spain, Brazil and modern Jazz.

The first CD 'Bohemia' (1999), was a big success, opening doors to many national and international festivals. Since then, the trio has played at some of the most prestigious festivals like the Montreux Jazz festival in Switzerland, and did numerous of concerts for radio and television.

Tolga got many invitations to play in Italy, and in the spring of 2005, he decided to move there. He is now living with his girlfriend and son in the mountains between Bologna and Florence.

In the meantime he kept developing the music, and has just finished the seventh personal album 'Point Of View'. On this CD, he is experimenting with a new instrument built specially for him by Dutch luthier Ger Boonstra; an acoustic double neck guitar, of witch one of the necks is fretless.

The music written and performed by the Tolga Trio has been used for movies, radio and television programmes and documentaries around the world.


current line up:

Tolga During - solo guitar
Lorenzo Lucci - rhythm guitar
Matteo Zucconi - double bass


some festivals:

Montreux Jazzfestival - Zwitserland
Royal Albert Hall - England
International Jazzfestival Terrassa - Spain
Django Reinhardt Festival Torino -Italy
Shetland Folk festival - Scotland
Veszprem - Hungary
Nardis Jazzclub - Turkey
SJU Jazzpodium - Holland
PIT - Norway
Buskersbus - Poland
Pflasterspektakel - Austria
Killarney Summerfest - Ireland
Blühendes Barock - Germany
Bansko International Jazz Festival - Bulgaria
Mavrovo Winter Festival - Macedonia
The Quecumbar - England
Calagonone Jazz Festival - Sardegna
Pori International jazz Festival - Finland


Matteo Zucconi - contrabbasso

He began studying the electric bass in 1993 with master Ares Tavolazzi. In 1999 he began studying double bass first with Tavolazzi then with Tiziano Zanotti and follows a path that takes him to complete his academic studies, classical bass. In the meantime, he has participated in numerous seminars, studying with Ron Carter, Franco D'Andrea, Aldo Zunino, Jeremy Brown, Duncan Hopkins, Gilad Atzmon, Barry Green, Stephen Keogh. and won a scholarship for an international seminar of the GMF of Krk, Croatia and I come after the device as an invited guest for the seminar certaldo, FI. Meanwhile, continuing the live activity and studio produces numerous:

matilda- BSA - 2002 Voce off OST 2004, Pret a porter OST 2005 Suite- prima del vero- yugenmusic- 2006 Human beings 2008
Ez Quartet- For a new life-trj records-2010 Ah-Hum Meditation on NO integration -El Gallo Rojo-2011 Mimes of Wine-Memories of the unseen- Urtovox-2012 Ez quartet-I bambini non sanno - trj records- 2012

Some of these collaborations bring him to the U.S., Germany, Austria, Croatia, Denmark to participate in concerts and festivals. He worked and I work with:

Ah.Hum,Garrison Fewell, Fabrizio Puglisi, Guglielmo Pagnozzi,Simone Pederzoli,Rudy Marra, Sara Loreni,Little Taver, Carlo Atti, Antonio Cavicchi, Tolga During, Sandro Gibellini, Mimes of WIne, Capa Cupa, Alessandro Altarocca, Diego Frabetti, Teo Ciavarella, Gilad Atzmon, Barry Green, Eddie Hick,

Lorenzo Lucci - guitar

Lorenzo Lucci was born in Sulmona in 1984. As a child he shows a strong interest in art, cultivating with the help of friends and professionals, his greatest passions: painting, photography, cooking and music.

He has been active as a guitarist and rock singer, then as a guitarist and multi-instrumentalist in a ska project, then as a bassist in a funk-jazz quintet, where he had the pleasure of playing with professional musicians such as Gianni Di Benedetto (tenor sax), Massimo Dominican (piano), and learns to appreciate jazz in a variety of styles.

Gypsy rhythms, a musical journey in Salento with "Radio Manouche" and the desire to leave his region led him to Bologna, where he starts to play the guitar again and makes the acquaintance with Tolga.

more information:
www.myspace.com/lorelucciolart