Azione_Improvvisa Ensemble – contemporary music

about us.

Azione_Improvvisa is an ensemble that connects different musical approaches and experiences, a synergic contribution between different ages instruments, aimed to reach new and experimental identity. From an idea of the italian composer Raul Masu, the ensemble is composed by musicians operating in Italy, Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Belgien.
In addition to music concerts, the ensemble is often involved in educational activities and workshops, with the aim to focus on different aspects of the “comporaneity”.
Many composers have written for Azione_Improvvisa, above all Giorgio Colombo Taccani, Stefano Alessandretti, Nicola Straffelini, Dan di Maggio.
The ensemble was invited to have a concert in “Musica Insieme Festival” 2019 in Panicale, collaborating with Ernest von Siemens Stiftung, “Contrasti 2018”, a contemporary music festival based in Trento.
Azione_improvvisa performed for Pergine Festival 2018 and on that occasion shows an interactive musical installation which uses “The Kites” technology, already used in a pedagogical project exhibited at the Musikhochschule Trossingen (DE). The project was then proposed again in the “Musicitem” season for the cultural project in_Colto, promoted by Alchemica association and MUSE in Trento.
The ensemble is among the founders and part of Anomalia – pratiche artistiche contemporanee.
In January 2019, Azione_Improvvisa joined #theWorkRoom project, promoted by Fattoria Vittadini in cooperation with Fondazione Milano, and won an artistic residence at Fabbrica del Vapore in Milan.
In the same month, Parade – a selection of guitar works by Giorgio Colombo Taccani – was released by Guitart Label. Parade includes the recording of Blind Trust, dedicated to the ensemble.

News

SeedS

We are glad to announce that our ensemble is under the winners of 2020 Ernst von Siemens Foundation call, supporting new compositions!
2021 we will premiered brand new pieces by Lula Romero, Farzia Fallah, Marco Momi, Zeno Baldi!
Thank you to Ernst-von-Siemens-Musikstiftung and all the other institutions that sustain our work.

More info under:
https://www.evs-musikstiftung.ch/de/preise/preise/foerderprojekte/kompositionsauftraege.html

40”KlangRoom is online!

We believe it’s time to act, with creativity and mutual cooperation.

So, we had an idea to constructively respond to this moment of difficulty with an action to maintain our music active in the contemporary world.

We asked a small group of composers to write a 40” piece, which will be played in 4 different rooms and then reassembled. KottomFilm will collaborate on video-editing. All “40’’KlangRoom” pieces are shared on our online channels. The composer who participated received a photo for each room of the four performers. Each composer will then be free to experiment with our instruments and any element of our rooms, lights included.

We posted them each Monday and Thursday and you can watch them on our YouTube Channel
or in the media section of this website.

Our line up.

Bio

Very active in the contemporary scene, Margherita Berlanda studied Accordion with M° Corrado Rojac at the Conservatorio Statale “G:Tartini” of Trieste (Italy) from year 2006 to year 2012 and she graduated there at the Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Performance. She specialized in Chamber Music, Master of Musikvermittlung and Konzertexamen (Solistic post Master specialisation) at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik Trossingen (Germany) under the guide of M° Hans Maier. She attended several master classes, both with interpreters and composers (J.Rättyä, M.Vayriynen, Lukas Juhart…,N.Brass, N.A.Huber e F.Nieder..). Thanks to the Erasmus Scholarship she was student in M° Stefan Hussong class at the Musikhochschule Würzburg (Germany 2011-2012). She took part and distinguished into different international music competions. She has performed in International Music Festivals like “Donaueschingen Tagen für Neue Musik”, Germany; “Kooper Contemporary Music Festival” Slowenien; “Pergine Festival of performig arts”, “SpazioMusica Festival”, Italy, “Musica Insieme Panicale”…She performs not only as a soloist but also in chamber music groups. Of particular interest is the music project with the cellist Nicolò Nigrelli (Duo Alambic), with the pianist Claudia Pérez Inesta, Anomalia Collective (Anna Sowa, Dorota Jasinska) and with the contemporary music ensemble azione_improvvisa ensemble. Some of her interpretations have been broadcasted by Radio Vaticana, Bayerische Rundfunk, Rai Slovenia.
She works steadly with several contemporary music composers and performer (Philemon Mukarno, Samir Odeh Tamimi, Roberto Zanata, Gianluca Castelli, Anna Sowa-winners of Supernova Calls 2019, Pergine Festival). She cooperates with Orchestras such as the Mannheim Kammerphilarmonie or the Haydn Orchester von Bozen und Trient. She has recently founded and she is the coordinator of an artistc space-lab called Anomalia (Trento), together with the painter Andrea Fonanari (painter, Boccanera Gallery, Trento-Milan).
Important moments as a teacher were the teaching period as assistant for the pre-academic accordion courses at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica “G.Tartini” of Trieste and masterclasses such as the accordion master class by the Music School of Szczecin, Poland (Panstwowa Szkola Musyczna I Stopnia). She works now at the L.Campiani Conservatory in Mantua.

Bio

Born in Venosa, Basilicata, in 1989, he obtained his conservatory diploma with
top marks and honour under maestro Marco Salcito. He attended masterclasses with maestros Pablo Marquez, Timo Korhonen, Oscar Ghiglia, Tilman Hoppstock and Carlo Marchione, as well as a one-year training course held by the latter.
He perfected his skills under the guidance of Tilman Hoppstock at the Akademie fuer Tonkunst in Darmstadt (DE).
He attended master course specialized in Chamber music at the conservatory of Milan, under maestros Marco Pace and Mauro Bonifacio.
His artistic career focuses on the music of the 20 th century and, above all, on
contemporary music. This led him to collaborate actively with various
composers, often performing world premieres. Also, numerous pieces have been dedicated to him.
Very active in the field of chamber music, he boasts several collaborations with various ensembles. Interested in exploring different forms of artistic performance, he has often collaborated with actors and visual artists. Revisions of his pieces are published by Rai Com, Suvini Zerboni and Sconfinarte.
He held a workshop and a conference focused on new techniques of execution and the repertoire of
contemporary music for guitar at the Conservatory of Milan and Pescara.
He performed in Italy and abroad for various musical associations such as Museo del Novecento in Milan,
Festival Mi.To., Tansillo in Venosa, Syntonia in Rome, Nuova Diapason in Vieste, AVO, Setticlavium in
Vasto.
In June 2012, he was invited to perform at the Pietro Canonica Museum in Rome, on the occasion of the
European Music Day and performed at the Tage fuer Neue Musik in Darmstadt in February 2015.
He is the artistic director and chamber music teacher of the summer course “City of Venosa, in the footsteps
of Gesualdo”
He teached guitar for pre-academic and non-academic courses at the Conservatory “Franco Vittadini” in
Pavia and in various schools of Milan.

Bio

She was born in Florence, Italy. She studied Composition at Conservatory Luigi Cherubini of Florence, with Rosario Mirigliano and Paolo Furlani, and, at Kunstuniversität, in Graz, with Beat Furrer, Clemens Gadenstätter and Georg Friedrich Haas. She has attended several master classes and summer courses, such as Impuls and, headed by Helmut Lachenmann, Beat Furrer, Dieter Amman, Tristan Murail, Daniele Bravi, Toshio Hosokawa, Mark Andre, Stefano Gervasoni, Mauro Lanza. She also graduated with first-class honours in Master of Musicology at the University of Florence in 2009, and she specialized in Pedagogy and Music, for music teaching at the preschool and elementary school, with the course Musica Bambina, in Pisa. After that, she has been working on several projects with children in Teatro Verdi in Pisa and in many theatre and schools in Florence and in Pisa. In 2010, together with the trumpet player Marco Baldini and the clarinet player Edoardo Ricci, she founded Blutwurst, a collective of musicians, focused on radical improvisation and on the performance of contemporary composers’ graphic scores. 2013 the collective began to work on its own projects, composing works entirely dedicated to the electro-acoustic exploration of unisons and drones. The compositions has been released as CD by Tempo Reale Collection, in May 2016, and the compositions has been released as vinyl by the English label Negative Days, in December 2016. Her compositions have been performed in Italy, in Austria, in Spain, in England, in German, Switzerland. She was in Vienna (January-March 2016) for the Artist-in Residence Programm, by Kultur Kontakt, Österreich, and in Graz (February- April 2017) for the St.A.I.R, Artist-in Residence Programm, by Steiermark, Österreich. She is now doctoral students at the University of Antwerp, within the docARTES programme run by the Orpheus Instituut, in Gent, Belgium. Here she is also working as a Doctoral researcher within the research cluster Music, Thought and Technology

Bio

Born in Pordenone (Italy) in 1989, he started his musical education at 10 years old as a chorister, together with the study of classical guitar. This choral and vocal ensemble experience acted as a springboard to appreciating the renaissance and baroque repertoire. The decision to go deeper with this music was made beginning the study of early plucked string instruments in Venice
Conservatorio “B.Marcello” under Tiziano Bagnati, and he graduated his “Compimento Inferiore”.
in 2009, taking the highest award in renaissance lute.
He completed his studying in 2016 with the top mark under Rolf Lislevand in the Trossingen Musikhochschule, where he attended lesson of music praxis, theory and notation also with Lorenz
Duftschmid, Frithjof Smith, Marco Ambrosini, Kees Boeke, Claudia Caffagni. He has attended courses and masterclasses on the lute with Paul O’dette and Jacob Lindberg, and vocal technique
with Andreana Galante, and in chamber music with Sigiswald Kuijken, Marco Mencoboni, Diego Fratelli, Lorenzo Ghielmi. He performs solo concerts on the baroque lute and on the theorbo. He
has also performs in “Singing upon the lute” practice, with renaissance and early baroque repertoire of the 16th and 17th century. He plays continuo in collaboration with several groups of chamber music and baroque orchestra. He is cofounder of the young ensemble Consonanze Stravaganti, born in 2012, which explores the 17th and 18th Italian baroque repertoire. He collaborates also with stable groups such as Azione_improvvisa (contemporary music trio: theorbo, accordeon and e-guitar), Arcoantiqua (chamber and orcherstra baroque music), la Gallarda (spanish siglo de oro music), il
Parnaso (trio theorbo, flute, violin), il Demetrio, Soqquadro Italiano, Ensemble Eufonia, Ring Around Quartet, Rossoporpora Ensemble, Cappella Altoliventina. He recorded for labels like
Tactus, Antiqua and gave live radio streamed concerts fron the Quirinale Palace.
He gave concerts-conferences about the connection between music and lyric love poetry of 12th and 13th century from Troubadours and Trouvères, singing and playing alone the accompaniment on the
Psaltery (Castelli Aperti in Friuli, Casa Archana, 2015).