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marco fusi giacomo baldelli violin guitarviola electric guitarviola d'amore electric bass

2 players, 6 instruments, 42 strings, mics, amplifiers, cables, pick up, computers, speakers; this is the raw material of a wide workshop, a research-lab for the sound possibilities of our project.

From this starting point we explore existing repertoire, but exist mainly for the creation of new sound-scapes, through collaborations with composers, video-artists, sound-engineers; wising to increase time after time our material and to articulate it more precisely, to meet other artists and musicians that can conceptualize our instrument (and ourself as players) in a complete different way.

Going for a concept of music as collaboration through persons, a common way of thinking.

marco fusi

Marco Fusi managed to transofrm the hyper-“detailed score into something truly musical”

The Strad - June 2011

Marco Fusi, violinist, violist and composer, has studied with Dimitrios Polisoidis, Ernst Kovacic and Jeanne-Marie Conquer.

Marco has performed with conductors and soloists including Pierre Boulez, Lorin Maazel, Peter Eötvös , Beat Furrer, Vladimir Ashkenazy, Gustav Kuhn, Jürg Wyttenbach, Jean Deroyer, and Marco Angius. He has

premiered new works by composers Castiglioni, Eötvös, Sciarrino, Vacchi, and Cattaneo, among others. Marco has had the opportunity to perform concerts in renowned halls such as the Muziekgebouw in Amsterdam, Auditorium Parco della Musica inRome, KKL Konzertsaal in Lucerne, Beyond Baroque in Los Angeles, Experimental Intermedia in NYC, Tchaikovsky Concert Hallin Moscow, and the Béla Bartók Concert Hall in Budapest.

Marco has collaborated with Ensemble Algoritmo (Rome), Interface (Frankfurt), Proton (Bern), Linea (Strasbourg), Phoenix (Basel), l’Arsenale (Treviso), MotoPerpetuo (NYC), Ecce (Boston), and Handwerk (Köln).

His complete recording of John Cage’s Freeman Etudes was released by Stradivarius; he has been invited to present this project, giving concerts, masterclasses and lectures at University of Southern California, Arizona State University, and the Milan Conservatory.

giacomo baldelli

Baldelli introduces himself as a delicate “colors' distiller a fine recitatives poet”

Seicorde April 2011–

Giacomo Baldelli is a classical/electric guitarist and a performer. He studied with Claudio Piestra, Valdimir Mikulka and Carlos Bonell.

Since then he has been working as a solo guitarist and with severalensembles and orchestras, performing in Italy, Germany, Poland, CzechRepublic, England and the United States.

He has performed many solo recitals inConcert Seasons such as L’Oradella Musica, Concerti a PalazzoMagnani, Concerti al Chiaro di Luna,Chitarra e Dintorni, Echi Musicali,Compositori a ConfrontoContemporary Music Festival in ReggioEmilia, Aperitivo a PalazzoMarchi, Chiostro d’Estate in Parma,Estate a Sei Corde InternationalFestival in Brescia, Festival Bellagio,Festival delle Cinque GiornateContemporary Music Festival in Milan,2X2 Salon Series in New YorkCity (USA), University of LeedsInternational Concert Series (UK).

Since 2005 he has performed with theflutist Gianni Biocotino (The AvantgardeDuo). Since 2012 he has performed withthe American pianist Laura Barger.

Since 2006 he has been a member ofIcarus Contemporary Music Ensemble as a classical and electric guitarist. As an Icarus member he has performed in internationally renowned contemporary Music Festivals such as REC/APERTO (Reggio Emilia, Italy), Biennale Musica(Venice, Italy), Sincronie (Milan, Italy), Gaida Festival (Vilnius, Lithuania), the Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival (Huddersfield, England).

In 2010 he released his first solo guitar CD Chitarra Italiana del XXI Secolo (Bottega Discantica) which is having positive reviews by music press.

Since 2005 he is on faculty at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “A.Peri” in Reggio Emilia, Italy.

repertoire

violin

BERIO, Luciano - Sequenza VIII

BOULEZ, Pierre - Anthèmes

CAGE, John - Freeman Etudes

DONATONI, Franco - ciglio for solo violin

SCIARRINO, Salvatore - Sei capricci

XENAKIS, Yannis - Mikka

viola

LIGETI, György – Sonate

BERIO, Luciano – Naturale

FURRER, Beat – a due

GRISEY, Gerard – Prologue

viola d'amore

NEUWIRTH, Olga - ...risonanze?...

HUBER, Klaus – L'âge de notre ombre

ROMANO, Lorenzo – chi ha paura delle maree

guitar

DONATONI, Franco – Algo

BERIO, Luciano – Sequenza XI

PETRASSI, Goffredo - Nunc

ANTIGNANI, Luca - Und dieses Einen Kamen sie

FERRARI, Maurizio – dal dolce canto

REBORA, Carla – Sei Studi Binari

NENNA, Gaetano – Tre Piccoli Interludi

CIULLO, Vincenza – Senza Respiro

COSMI, Gabriele - Geghard

electric guitar

ROMITELLI, Fausto – Trash TV Trance *

REICH, Steve – Electric Counterpoint

AGOSTINI, Andrea - Mechanics

MURAIL,Tristan – Vampyr!

MESSINA, Marcello – A ttinghitè

ESSL, Karlheinz, Sequitur VIII

CAGE, John – Dream (trascrizione a cura dell'esecutore)

FERRARI, Maurizio – dal dolce canto, vers.2012

duo repertoire

* with original video produced by OOOPStudio, Reggio Emilia (see below details)

OOOPStudio is a group who mixes technology and creativity, born when the visual artists Alessandro Grisendi and Marco Noviello decided to work together.

OOOPStudio’s goal is to produce visual works that can involve the audience and catch the essence of an experience: installations, multiprojections set up in theatres and public places to create all-involving atmospheres

technicalrequirements

Viola d'amore and Live Electronics1 Micro-microphone (or lavalier) with clip for attaching to the instrument.1 Contact-microphone with sticky paste for attaching to the instrument.1 D.I. Box for Contact-microphone.1 2/4 CH Mixer for audio card output and (at least) 1 send monitor pre-prefader. 1 PA System with at least 2 speakers (better with subwoofer) .1 MIDI Switch Pedal (at least 5 metres cable).1 Table for laptop and audio card (min 80 x 40).1 Stage Monitor.

Viola d'amore and tape1 Micro-microphone (or lavalier) with clip for attaching to the instrument.1 Laptop or CD player for tape.1 2/4 CH Mixer for 1 mic input and 2 CH tape input and (at least) 1 send monitor pre-prefader. 1 PA System with at least 2 speakers (better with subwoofer). 1 Stage Monitor.

Electric Guitar2 Guitars Amplifiers (better Fender).1 Laptop or CD player for tape.1 Voice Mic (betterSHURE SM58).Depending on the concert hall size and acoustic: 1 4 CH Mixer for 2 guitar/1 voice mic/1 tape input 1 Stage Monitor 2 Speakers

Video1 Projector1 Screen1 System to play the videos (better a laptop activated by the musicians)

General4 Music StandsLights for music standsMultiple socket and Electric Extension CablesAudio Cables

Important: This is just an aproximate rider. The final rider will be decided depending on the programme

contacts

marco fusivia Kennedy 40, 2002 cesate (Mi)

fusi.marco@me.com+39 3894332949

giacomo baldellivia l.chiesi 12, reggio emilia

jazz_club@libero.it

+393337992396