Born and raised in Bari, Italy, Renato Falaschi was inspired by music he was exposed to as a child, and began playing the piano “by ear “at a very early age. He began formal piano studies at the age of eight at Bari’s Niccolo Piccinni Conservatory of music and this he continued off and on into his teens, shifting to a focus on organ, guitar and arrangement for big band and composition of which he obtained his masters at the Jazz University in Terni. In 1990 he obtained a degree in classical p...