SUN Musical Group

SUN, an Italian based music group, is a trio founded by: Dario Sulei (voice and percussion), Alessandro Palacino (keyboard) and Diego Spitaleri (piano and keyboard).  Organized in 1995, SUN realized its first CD entitled Ethnicity, produced by Giungla Records and distributed by R.T.I., and re-printed by the "Teatro del Sole."

The music of this trio is of the "new age," with definite Mediterranean connotations, which open with strong ethnical and jazz suggestions. It concerns a synthesis which intends to find its own balance, using the most actual musical sounds in order to construct its own sonorous dimension. An important aspect of SUN's research concerns its vocal integration, in its musical sounds as well as in its most advanced forms, and in its musical and instrumental form.

In the course of its many recitals, the group SUN has performed at numerous concerts, participating in various festivals and reviews, among which are the following:

  • Marsala Jazz Festival
  • Music Against War
  • Ibson Stage Festival of Norway
  • Youth for Peace Process
  • The New Music of Sicily - Concert for Falcone
  • The Fifth Festival LUCO - Italiano of Art & Culture, Palermo
  • WOMAN, Palermo
  • Territory Match Music
  • National Holiday of Liberation, Rome
  • The Night of the Stars, Palermo Teatro
  • SUN Interprets Scarlatti - Palermo Teatro Massimo
  • SUN Interprets Scarlatti - Piano degli Albanese, Regional Province of Palermo
  • The Barrel of Sounds (Foundation of the Massimo Theater)
  • SUN Interprets Scarlatti - Festival of Orligia, Syracuse
  • Open Digs - Bologna
  • Colors of the Sea - Mediterranean Sounds, Messina

During the course of their American tour and debut from September 16-26, 2004, SUN will be visiting Baltimore and New York City with performances scheduled with the Maryland Grand Lodge of the Order of the Sons of Italy in America (OSIA) and then on to Columbia and NYU University's Casa Italiana. 

The SUN group is part of the entourage to America sponsored by the Associazione Nationale Famiglie Emigrati (ANFE) of the Regional Delegation of Sicily. ANFE has developed a working relationship with the National OSIA owing to a Spring 2004 visit to Sicily and Rome during the 99-100 year celebration of the OSIA.