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Daniele Roccato is among Europe's most prominent players of the double bass. He has specialized in contemporary music, avant-garde experiments with the possibilities of the double bass, and musical-theatrical collaboration. Roccato was born in Adria, in northeastern Italy's Rovigo province, in 1969. He began studying violin and piano when he was seven but then switched to double bass and studied with Federico Garberoglio. As a student, he joined several national and regional youth orchestras, including the Orchestre des Jeunes de la Méditerranée in France, and won several com...