Sonora 708 - Double: double gaze
Canti dal Silenzio
by and with Marcello Fera
words as a double of musical discourse and the dual role of artistic director and musician
Program:
Marcello Fera: Segno, Andare,Taglio, Memento Gori, Sensa Sciou, Improvvisazione, Cura, Ragionando
Domenico Gabrielli [1650-1690]: Ricercare primo
From the Kroměříž Manuscript [1672]: Giga e Variatio
J.S. Bach [1685-1750] : Double [from Partita No. 1 in B minor BWV 1002]
Marcello Fera: Ninna per Olga
All’intorno, Interludio alla voce di Roberta Dapunt, Mnemo, Aframunda
Marcello Fera - composition, text, violin
Sonora 708 - Double: Twins in Heaven and on Earth
Twins in Heaven and on Earth
Riccardo Nova: Rudra Mantra, Kunti Mantra and Combat
(excerpts from Mahābhārata opera project)
for harp, percussion, electric guitar, electronics
From the famous epic and sacred book Mahabharata. A profound reflection on Hinduism as the basis from which the poem moves to offer a unique perspective on human existence and its myriad contradictory facets.
Composer Riccardo Nova reinterprets the Indian epic, bringing mantras, ancestral rhythms and contemporary sounds to the stage with effectiveness and balance. The work ‘Mahābhārata - Mantras, Fights and Threnody’ earned Riccardo Nova a nomination as a finalist for one of Europe's highest awards for composition, the ‘Prix Prince du Monaco’.
Icarus Ensemble
Gilda Gianolio - harp
Michele Di Modugno - percussion
Francesco Pedrazzini - percussion
Giorgio Genta - electric guitar
Sonora 708 - double: the cat and the fox
Gabriele Mirabassi and Simone Zanchini in concert:
Top meeting between two great virtuosi of their instrument, as well as protagonists of the international music scene. The musical transversality that distinguishes both of them allows them to express themselves with ease in both the world of jazz and classical music. In this duo, the sensuality of South American rhythms and the pulsating depth of old swing are mixed with the sonorities of a modern, contemporary jazz that is expressed in the compositional style of both
Gabriele Mirabassi - clarinet and composition
Simone Zanchini - accordion and composition
In cooperation with TidA - Theater in der Altstadt
https://www.tida.it/it/programm/il-gatto-e-la-volpe
Sonora 708 - double: Pinocchio, a sacred book
The Adventures of Pinocchio, a sacred book
Igor Sibaldi unveils the treasures contained in Collodi's famous tale
Igor Sibaldi, a writer, philologist, translator and essayist whose breadth of interests and fields of enquiry go well beyond the aforementioned qualifications, proposes his reading of Collodi's text, which far from being considered ‘only’ a children's book or ‘only’ a literary masterpiece, is presented as a true sacred text, dense with biblical references and liberating indications for human existence rooted in ancient knowledge.
Igor Sibaldi, born of a Russian mother and an Italian father, was initially a translator for Mondadori of various works, especially by Tolstoy and Dostoyevsky, for whom he also wrote monographs and introductory essays. He then dedicated himself to his work as an author and to philosophical and theological research.
As an author, he has to his credit an endless bibliography that includes non-fiction, fiction and theatre. He is also known to the public for his oratorical skills, which are expressed in numerous lectures and seminars.
Igor Sibaldi - lecturer
https://www.tida.it/it/programm/le-avventure-di-pinocchio-un-libro-sacro
Sonora 708 - Double: double root (1)
Masimba Hwati - Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński
Storming Breath. Soundings to Asue* (2025)
Masimba Hwati is an artist born in Mhondoro (Zimbabwe) who experiments with sound, sculpture, video and performance. With ‘found objects’ assembled on site, Hwati creates performable sculptures like wind instruments to which new life is breathed into with the breath of the musicians who manipulate them.
Masimba Hwati's performance is in combination with Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński's exhibition Aerolectics
Masimba Hwati - instrument construction, composition, performance
in collaboration with Merano Arte
https://www.kunstmeranoarte.org/it.html
Sonora 708 - Double: double root (2)
Melika Ngombe Kolongo aka Nkisi is a London-based experimental musician and artist with a Kongo family history. As part of the Merano Arte Aerolectics exhibition, Belinda Kazeem-Kamiński invites Nkisi for a sound performance that resonates with elements of the exhibition. The name Nkisi refers to the fetishes widespread in much of central Africa, bearers of spiritual and non-material power. Her sound performances weave together experimentation with ancient musical techniques, liveness and the active involvement of the audience, who in dance, with their bodies, are invited to incorporate sound traditions that imply cultural resistance to the power structures of the global present.
Nkisi - Samplig and DJ set
in collaboration with Merano Arte
https://www.kunstmeranoarte.org/it.html
Sonora 708 - double: thrice double
Marcello Fera - Follephonia Doppia for violin, vibraphone and strings
Albert Doppler - Concerto in D minor for two flutes and orchestra
Francis Poulenc - Concerto in D minor for two pianos and orchestra
in cooperation with Musikschule Meran
https://deutsche-bildung.provinz.bz.it/de/musikschulen/home
Paola Biondi and Debora Brunialti - piano
Antonio Caggiano - vibraphone
Carlo Jans and Chantal Veit - flute
Ensemble Conductus
Veronika Egger - Leader
Marcello Fera - solo violin and conductor
I Concerti della Cappella Paolina del Quirinale
Bellanöva in concert
The traditional music duo formed by Stefano Valla and Daniele Scurati meets the violin and music writing of Marcello Fera and the cello of Nicola Segatta.
The concert is broadcast live on Radio 3 and, through Euroradio connections, in many countries in Europe
https://www.raiplaysound.it/programmi/iconcertidelquirinale
Bellanöva:
Stefano Valla - voice, piffero
Daniele Scurati - accordion, vocals
Nicola Segatta - cello, vocals
Marcello Fera - violin, vocals, composition
Stefano Catucci - speaker