Soffio

Davide Ambrogio, Calabria, Italy
Davide Ambrogio grew up in a small town in Calabria, where ancient religious rituals and devotional songs are still alive. He worked with musicologists to deepen his knowledge of vocal technique, traditional oral singing, Sardinian singing, and the aesthetics and polyphony of Sardinian and Salentino singing. Davide drew inspiration from this heritage of oral tradition to create his own musical language.

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Julen Achiary, Basque Country, France
The Basque Country gave him a love of dance, music and song. He grew up in a life punctuated by parties and encounters. He traveled to Africa, the Congo, Turkey and Azerbaijan, where he forged links between the music of the Caucasus and that of the Arbailles souletines. Through all these heritages, Julen has built a musical personality that he expresses notably through a constant search for sounds and rhythms.

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Lila Fraysse, Haute-Garonne, France
Originally from Toulouse, Lila Fraysse grew up on the Convivencia festival barge. She learned Occitan while immersed in a Calandreta in Toulouse, later studying image and discovering Occitan collections and audiovisual creation. She worked as a cameraman and editor at Piget Films, where she developed a critical eye for occitanity and its expression. In 2013, she shows the group Cocanha with Caroline Dufau. Lila finds in these Occitan sources a poetic language, a political anchor and an infinite source of inspiration for these creations.

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Rebecca Roger Cruz, Rhône Alpes, France
Rebecca is Venezuelan and began singing opera in Caracas, where she discovered her passion for early music and opera. Her operatic career blends with her passion for percussion, dance, improvisation, traditional, modal and experimental music. Her voice is constantly evolving, nourished by a path of spirituality, connection with nature and with the power of the elements, but also by encounters, travel and sharing.

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Marcello Squillante, Naples, Italy
Born in Naples, Marcello has been playing various instruments since childhood as a self-taught musician, then studying singing and playing the accordion. He was one of the founders of Ars Nova Napoli in 2009. The group brings together six Neapolitan musicians born of a love for Campania’s folk repertoire, and for the first few years they made the historic center their natural stage. They took part in countless festivals and popular celebrations, establishing a direct link with the music and stories of Campanian culture and deepening their ethnomusical research in the rest of Italy.

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Voci in ascolto
The aim of the Voci in ascolto workshop is to deepen the voice-instrument through the repertoire of the Italian oral tradition. Melodic, harmonic and rhythmic aspects are analyzed with an approach centered on playing, imitation, improvisation and memory development, without the support of scores. The study of these polyphonies enables students to acquire new aesthetic and interpretative elements, so as to enrich their own musical vocabulary from a technical and artistic point of view.