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Australian Virgil Donati established himself as a session and touring drummer in his native Australia as a member of fusion groups Loose Change and On The Virg, a fouding member of pop-rock band Southern Sons and Taste, and plenty of touring with other local and international acts such as Branford Marsalis, George Cables, Mark Murphy and many others. Since moving to the United States, Virgil has worked with the likes of Planet X, the Steve Vai band, Freakhouse, Tribal Tech, CAB, Ring of Fire and solo artists such as Derek Sherinian, Steve Walsh, Mark Boals, and many more. .
His musical journey is a crossroads that touches on Brazilian music and Jazz, tribal sounds and electronica, and the suggestiveness of dance and the visual arts. With the "Salgarian" soul of an explorer, his music combines refined impressionism and an innate taste for space. He devotes himself as well, to the fusion between music and contemporary dance. .
Ignazio Donati (c. 1570 – 21 January 1638) was an Italian composer of the early Baroque era. He was one of the pioneers of the style of the concertato motet. Donati was born in Casalmaggiore (now in the Province of Cremona). Little is known about his earliest years, but he must have had a thorough early musical training, and his succession of posts at various cathedrals in Italian towns is well documented: he served successively at Urbino, Pesaro, Fano, Ferrara, Casalmaggiore, Novara, and Lodi, eventually acquiring the prestigious post at Milan Cathedral in 1629, which he kept with one short...