Antonio Breschi has been played on NTS in shows including Organic Music Tokyo w/ Chee Shimizu, featured first on 27 April 2018. Songs played include Salinera, Espuma and Punta Umbría.

Antonio Breschi (aka Antóni O’Breskey) (born in Florence, Italy, 1950, with Argentine roots) is a composer, pianist and trumpet player, singer, writer, poet and music educator. His roots are classical music and jazz, but he began to explore many other ethnic traditions. He was also an anticipator of minimalism and many other styles.

He founded the Florence Jazz Society at the age of 16, and a few years later the International Folk Group, which became the group Whisky Trail.

Between 1970 and 1973 he spent long periods in the USA in Alabama and Louisiana to explore the roots of blues, discovering the strong influence of Irish music in jazz, and performing with old jazz traditional musicians.

In Ireland he started a long collaboration and friendship with Ronnie Drew of The Dubliners, who participated in many of Antonio's albums.

In 2008 he began a strong collaboration with José Seves, leader of group Inti Illimani, who sings in his album "Nomadic Aura".

Currently he is playing in trio with his daughter Consuelo Nerea (singer, fiddle and bodhrán player) and celloist Davide Viterbo (who both participated with the music and production of most of Antonio's albums since 2001) and sometimes in quartet with oboist Enio Marfoli, who participated in the album "Boletus Edulis: Suite For Piano And Oboe".

"He is a genius whose music is without frontiers, and whose originality makes him one of the most innovative artists in the varied musical genres of today. He gives us a strong feeling of our roots and most of all he points in a new direction for the future."

(Dublin's Hot Press Magazine)

Ethnic piano is a collection unique in the world.

For the first time the piano prince of refined instruments is combined with a whole range of ethnic instruments such as: uilleann pipes, whistle, fiddle, accordion, voices from the Basque country, flamenco guitars, Arabian violin, African voices, zarb from Persia, charango from Cile, Indian tabla and tampora, Australian didgerydoo, jazz brass, classic strings, flamenco palmas and zapateados, kakon peruviano, celtic harp, classical harp, bodhran, drum, tarabuka, sax, trompet, double bass, electric bass, dulcimer, spoons , and much more…

Artists involved in the Ethnic Piano Collection * Antoni O' Breskey * Benito Lertxundi * Gabin Dabiré * Ronnie Drew (from "The Dubliners") * Máirtín O'Connor * Keith Donald * Antonio e Miguel Carmona (from "Ketama") * Davide Viterbo (from "Nura") * Joe Mc Hugh * Massimo Giuntini (from "Modena City Ramblers") * Balen Lopez de Munain * Consuelo Nerea * Bride Ni Mhaioleoin * Jamal Ouassini (from Tangery's Orchestry") * David "Hopi" Hopkins * Sergio Candotti * Velemir Dugima * Shirley Grimes * Alì Tajbakshs * Bianca Stella Croce (from "Inti Illimani") * Tomas de los Reyes * Olatz Zugasti * Johnny Mc Carthy * Mario N'Goma * Vanni Breschi * Mia * Steve Cooney * Jane Cassidy * Marcelo Fuentes * Vincenzo De Luci * Eliane Zweifel * Mia Froellicher * Gilbert Paeffgen * Daniele Malvisi * Elena Vicini * Mario Serraglio * Neil Martin * Gerry and Annie O'Donnel * The group Whisky Trail * Tony Sidney (from "Il Perigeo") * Robbie Overson, * Dominique Beyens (Artist-Photography-Graphic Design)