Meet Francesco Fiorenzani | Musician, Composer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Francesco Fiorenzani and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Francesco, why did you pursue a creative career?
I decided to embark on an artistic journey without initially thinking that I could have an art to express. I started studying music seriously quite late, around my twenties, abandoning my studies in architecture. Shortly after, I found myself studying guitar for an average of 10 hours a day. The transition was so rapid that I almost didn’t have time to comprehend it.

Like many things in life, certain situations flow like a river in flood and overwhelm us; only when the flow diminishes do we have the opportunity to reflect and ask ourselves questions. Certainly, a certain creative inclination has accompanied me since I was very young. For many years, drawing was the means through which I probably tried to delve into my consciousness, even without being aware of it. But it’s evident that a trace was left in that phase of my life; it just had to find its course and its expressive mode.

I don’t like to call it a career; I don’t think art is a career. Art, to me, is a search, it’s a communication, it’s a culture. The term “career” only pertains to a way in which society can frame this profession and create a social ladder to ascend or descend. I find no interest in this perspective.

Let’s talk shop? Tell us more about your career, what can you share with our community?
What makes me happy is having the opportunity to work on my own things. I find great satisfaction in the seclusion that this work can provide, sitting at a table writing music. I’m more challenged when I have to think about being a happy performer, assuming we should define what it means to be happy. Nevertheless, at this moment in Italy, I find that the management of venues where concert events take place, especially in the jazz scene that I’m involved in, is rather obscure. I don’t see a real collaboration between those who create and those who offer spaces; I see a lot of opportunism, a lot of politics, and questionable sociality in all of this. I know many artists who are distancing themselves from this world, somewhat like Duchamp did when he decided to work as a librarian for a certain period; the times were different, of course, but a certain clash between the artist and the artistic society remains. I find myself in this conflict currently.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
If I have to thank people, I thank my parents first. Without their support, I don’t think I could have done what I did. Then there are many people I’ve met along my journey to whom I owe a lot both personally and artistically. Some have remained friends, others have moved on, but that’s life.

There are also too many books to list, but I’ll mention one more recent one: “Pensieri Diversi” (“Different Thoughts”), a collection of thoughts by the Austrian philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein. Let’s rediscover philosophy; it will help the world.

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