Silvia Bolognesi is a double bass player, composer and arranger. She graduated in double bass from the R. Franci Institute of Siena with Maestro Andrea Granai, perfecting with Maestro Alberto Bocini. She approached jazz studying at the Siena Jazz Academy with Paolino Dalla Porta, Furio Di Castri and Ferruccio Spinetti. The most significant encounters in his musical training are those with William Parker, Muhal Richard Abrams, Lawrence Douglas "Butch" Morris, Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton.
She won the "Top Jazz 2010", a critics award conferred by “Musica Jazz” magazine, which proclaimed her as the best new talent of italian jazz and she also achieved the "InSound" trophy for double bass category in the same year. She leads several bands: Open Combo, Almond Tree, Xilo Ensemble, Ju-Ju Sounds, Fonterossa Open Orchestra, Young Shouts, Beast Friends trio. Among her most important american collaborations: the international string trio “Hear in Now” with Tomeka Reid and Mazz Swift (with which they completed “Roscoe Mitchell’s sextet” in his homage to John Coltrane in 2017) and the "Art Ensemble of Chicago 50th Anniversary" since 2017, a project that produced the CD “We are on the Edge” and the recent live album “The Sixth Decade: from Paris to Paris”, released for “Rogue Art”.
She’s a member of “Roscoe Mitchell Quintet” since 2022. In 2010 she founded her own label “Fonterossa Records", hence the minifestival “Fonterossa Day” (since 2015) hosted by PisaJazz, of which she is artistic director. She’s the curator and conductor of “Fonterossa Open Orchestra”, a creative orchestra based in Pisa since 2017, and she runs workshops on Improvisation and Conduction practice since 2008, collaborating with PisaJazz. She teaches double bass and combo class at the Siena Jazz Academy and she’s jazz double bass teacher at the State Conservatory of Palermo. Since 2016 she is part of the “European exchange - Erasmus+” program for the Conservatories of Maastricht (Holland), Tbilisi (Georgia), Riga (Latvia), Birmingham (UK).