Bio
Anselmo Luisi is a drummer, performer and body percussionist.
In 2009 he graduated in classical percussion at the Conservatorio of Trieste. In 2013 he graduated in jazz drums at the Scuole Civiche of Milan; in the same year he graduated in Economics for Arts, Culture and Communication at the Bocconi University in Milan.
He is an active drummer and percussionist with several bands with which he has toured in Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Austria, Germany, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Kosovo, Switzerland, France, Morocco, Finland and China.
He has taken part in several theatre plays as actor and performer; since 2017 he has been performing in SBADABENG or the art of hitting yourself, a comic body percussion solo show which has been performed in Italy, Germany, Switzerland, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Morocco, Finland and Croatia. In 2022 he took part to the TV show Game of Talents with a body percussion performance; the show was lead by Alessandro Borghese with the participation of Mara Maionchi and Frank Matano.
Since 2018 he performs with the band Mombao, with whom he has extensively toured Italy, Slovenia, Croatia, Morocco, Germany, performing in some of the most renown european clubs and festivals. In 2021 they took part to the TV show X Factor Italy, gaining major fame and success in their native country. Since 2022 the band has been nominated associated artist of the important italian cultural centre BASE Milano.
As a theatre perfomer, musiciand and comedian, in 2020 he took part to the show "Ottantenta", directed by Davide Calabrese and produced by Teatro Stabile "La Contrada" from Trieste, Italy. In 2022 he wrote the arrangements and was the musical director of the show "LockClown", directed by Davide Calabrese and produced by the Dramma Italiano Ivan Zajc from Rjeka, Croatia.
He performed as body percussionist at the TEDx event in Trento University named “TedxUnitn: The pulse of innovation”. He regularly holds several body percussion workshops in collaboration with Daniel Plentz (Selton) and in some occasions with Manuel Frattini.
In 2016 he taught jazz drums at the Contemporary Music Institute in Zhuhai, China. He has taught music and body percussion at Atelier Teatro Fisico in Turin and at Adiacademy in Monza, and has been drums teacher at Ottava Nota music school in Milano.
He has played with musicians such as Le Luci della Centrale Elettrica, Giovanni Falzone, Gianpaolo Casati, Enrico Zanisi, Liutauras Janusaitis, Russ Spiegel, Luca Dell'Anna, Selton, Virtuosi del Carso (band of Paolo Rossi). He has played with the Civica Jazz Band aside Paolo Tomelleri and Emilio Soana. He has performed with the percussive ensemble Time Percussion alongside Marco Vaggi, Tony Arco, Giulio Visibelli.
