Santo Cazzati is a spoken word artist. The son of Italian immigrants to Australia, he emerged from  past lives as a classical concert pianist and avant garde jazz musician to teach at an elite Melbourne private school which must remain anonymous in order to protect those concerned. He performs in a range of styles, from fast rhythmical delivery to slow atmospheric meditation, often with a strong world music influence and critical ironic distance. His is a fixture on Melbourne’s grass roots poetry scene, a presenter of 3CR’s Spoken Word radio programme and appears on Going Down Swinging and Voiceprints CDs.