Fuga y Misterio

They were about 12 years old… This is how the young Simone Rubino looked musically at an early age. His mother said that when he was very young, there was no wall in the house that did’t have marks from percussion sticks. During that time it was frequent to find him in the RAI orchestra of Turin playing timpani, marimba or vibraphone in some symphonic concert, or replacing the conductor, and those concerts have remained engraved in my memory.

Some years later, while I was working on the Odisea Negra project, in spite of his young age of 16, I did not hesitate to call him to collaborate with La Chimera with the marimba.

After the first rehearsals I realized that I was in front of a great musician, whose interest in art and music in particular transcended the world of percussion to move towards orchestra conducting, composition or improvisation. Very soon after, and after an intense and intelligent period of study, Simone won the first prizes of the most important competitions in the world of percussions, a state that allowed him to perform himself with very famous orchestras such as the Wiener Philarmoniker or with conductors of the stature of Zubin Metha.

As if closing the circle, destiny wanted Simone this time to invite La Chimera to create a common project, which would unite “his” European world, cultured and musically prolific, with the Latin American sphere, present in many of La Chimera’s projects.