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ENRICO GUERZONI

Musician, cellist, composer, arranger.
He graduated in studies on the cello from the Conservatorio di Bologna in 1986. He has been First Cellist in several Italian orchestras, and had also collaborated with numerous instrumental groups such as the "Solisti Veneti", with whom he has played in some of the most prestigious reviews of music in the world. He has also been on tourneé in Japan, China, Korea, India, Germany, Spain, Argentina and obviously Italy, in prestigious places including Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, Teatro Bellini of Catania, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Moreover, he has played with the "Virtuosi Italiani", “Archi Italiani”, “International Chamber Ensemble”, the Orchestra della R.A.I in Rome, “Orchestra da Camera di Bologna”, “Filarmonici di Bologna” and “Solisti di Bologna”, Orchestra Regionale of Marche, and the orchestra “Giovanile Toscanini”.

-He won the international competition for the position of cellist with the Symphonic Lyric Agency "Teatro Comunale di Bologna" and he collaborated with them from 1988 to 2001. With this orchestra, he went on tournèe in Japan and Germany and has made recordings for the Decca. He has played under the guidance of conductors such as R. Muti, G. Sinopoli, C. Thieleman, V. Delman, R. Chailly, Z. Pezsko, L. Berio, G. Bertini, and D. Oren.

- Currently, he dedicates himself to his freelance work.

- He is the founder of the eclectic quartet of acoustic and electrical strings "Arké", with whom he has done numerous concerts and performed for the Royal Family in London, along with the tenor Josè Cura, with whom he has performed in concerts in Germany and Japan.

- From 2000 to 2004 he collaborated with the singer Antonella Ruggiero, building an ethnic and classical repertoire. They made a record together for Sony, a DVD for the EGEA and they have done more than 160 concerts all around Italy and in foreign countries, in prestigious theatres such as the "Regio" of Turin, “Carlo Felice” in Genova, ”Comunale“ in Modena and for musical agencies such as the Santa Cecilia (Terme di Caracalla) and Teatro Massimo in Palermo, for the Pope in the Vatican and Toronto and a tournée in Morocco. What’s more, two years in a row, they performed at the review “I suoni delle Dolomiti”.One of their concerts was integrally broadcast on Channel 4 of national Italian television.

- In February 2004 he went on tournée with A.S.Q.in Estonia and performed famous concert halls, such as the Puccini theatre in Merano and the jazz festivals of Vignola, as well as recordings with the Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu.

- He is a member of the Ensemble "Tourte" of Bologna, with whom he has recorded the unpublished quintets for flute by Boccherini and the string quartet for the record label "Dynamic".

- His repertoire includes the six Bach cello suites, which he has performed in public at the Teatro Consorziale di Budrio (Bo) and at the Medieval museum of Bologna.

- He has collaborated with Salvatore Sciarrino in various composition courses in "Città di Castello", and for years he played in the finalé concerts for the course in composition for the "Accademia Chigiana” in Siena.- In 1992, his jazz-blues group "Petronius Quartet" won the international prize "Città di Ispra", and, in 1994, the competition “Giugno per i giovani” at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana.- He has held jazz concerts with artists such as T. Lama, R. Gatto, D. Rea, P. Fresu, S. Zanchini, D. Lynx, L. Cottifogli (who recorded a CD with him, in a duo and in a sextet) F. Del Gaudio, S. Battaglia, G. Mirabassi, E. Fioravanti, M. Negri, R. Rossi, N. Machado, and M. Minardi.- Enrico Guerzoni was invited to Paris to play with Pierre Blanchard’s string jazz group and at the "Festival du Cinèma" for the centenarian of the Lumière brothers, performing at the Theatre of the Museè du Louvre . This was organized by the Cinémathèque Francaise.

- E. G. has a great passion for the baroque period in particular and done extensive study on baroque technique. He has worked as director and solo artist in various groups, such as Harmonico Concento, Ensemble Anciuti.

- He has received lessons in orchestra conduction with the great Lu Jia.

- He has taken part at the most important recordings of Andrea Bocelli.

- He has taken part in the most important recordings of Andrea Bocelli.- He has collaborated with some of the most important composers of Italian popular music, such as Eugenio Finardi, Lucio Dalla, Gianni Morandi, Renato Zero, Adriano Celentano, Gino Paoli, Zucchero, E. Ramazzotti, V. Capossela, Tullio de Piscopo, S. Bersani, and D. Silvestri, performing numerous concerts with them and working on various recordings, participating in the arrangements of some of their records.

- He has collaborated with the Mancuso brothers and Giancarlo Parisi in the project “Voci e strumenti da una Sicilia di Tradizione e di Reinvenzione”, working on traditional Sicilian music.- He has arranged and recorded the string section on the records of the singer Mirco Menna, of the group “Parto Nuvole Pesanti” and of the Chilean singer Marcelo Araya.

- As a composer, he has produced music above all for string quartet, but he has also tried his hand at many other styles, including POP, jazz, and ethnic music, with excellent results.- In January 2006 one of his own arrangements was performed by the Orchestra of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna.

- He has recorded and made concerts with the avanguarde group of Roberto Cacciapaglia.

- Moreover, Enrico Guerzoni, as a cellist, has taken part in several programmes on R.A.I. TV.

- He has taught the cello at the “Scuola di Musica Baroncini” in Imola (Bo) and at a musical high school in Cento.

Current projects and collaborations:

- In 2004 he founded the Kuasar String Kuartet an innovative musical project for string quartet. The K.S.K. collaborates with the Italian jazz project, the project "Plancton", the singer Kelly Joyce and other Italian and foreign artists.

- He plays in the "Ten Strings" duo with the guitarist Stefano Mirandola, climbing the height of original musical composition and playing the music of E. Gismonti, P. De Lucia, C. Corea among others. They have recently completed their first album: "Ten Strings".

- He also collaborates with Eugenio Finardi’s group in the show “Il Silenzio e lo Spirito“, and together they have recorded a CD and a DVD for the EDEL, and have performed in various concerts all over Italy.

- He also works with Mirco Menna and Stefano Mirandola in the "Rinato Carosello di musica napoleatana", performing Neapolitan music fromn the Renaissance to the present day.

- In August 2005 he performed in a concert with Michael Nymann at the Kursall of Merano.

- He is one of the elements of the “Trio Fotogramma”, a cinematic experience set to live music.

- He is about to graduate from the Music College of Bologna in Music and its Multimedia uses.

STEFANO SALETTI

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Musician and composer who plays traditional mediterranean instruments (bouzuki, oud, tzouras), acoustic, classic and electric guitars, piano, percussion, sampler, programming.

He is the founder and band leader of Novalia and the Piccola Banda Ikona.

On Genuary 2008 has published the new cd with Piccola Banda Ikona called "Marea cu sarea" written in Sabir an old language of Mediterranean sea.

On 2008 he is also the director of 7 Sóis Orkestra, a band who joints musicians from different musical cultures of the Mediterranean sea: the fado singer Margarida Guerreiro (Portugal), the violinist Jamal Ouassini (Maroc), the windinstruments player Eyal Sela (Israel), the flamengo guitarist Miguel Angel Ramos (Andalusia), the bass player Mario Rivera (Sicily), the percussionist Massimo Cusato (Calabria).
The band has recently recordered the live CD "A night in Sicily".

In 2003 he made his first recording as soloist called "Le Vespe", soundtrack of homonym play of Aristophanes.

In 2005 he composed and recorded with the Piccola Banda Ikona "Stari Most" record for the italian label CNI, Compagnia Nuove Indye.

As composer he worked also for film soundtracks, dance, theatre, poetry and television.

MIGUEL CZACHOWSKI

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Flamenco guitarist, composer, architect. Born in 1974 into a family of flamenco lovers where he was raised in a flamenco music environment. At the age of 12 he began learning to play the guitar. After his initial studies he took master classes from professional flamenco players such as Rafael Cortés, Salva del Real and Gerardo Núñez, which solidified his complete dedication to flamenco. In 1992, he formed a flamenco group gradually enlarging the numbers of the artists from a duo to septet. His group "Viva Flamenco!" plays both traditional and contemporary flamenco mixed with influences of Indian and Jazz music. Performing both as a solo artist and also with his musical group, Miguel has won first prizes in many folk festivals and is now the leading flamenco player in his country. He has performed and recorded with many great artists and groups and he concretised all over Poland as well as abroad (Austria, Germany, Italy, France, England, Belgium, Holland, Slovakia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Belarus, Oman and India). For several years he has been teaching flamenco guitar, and writing articles and interviews, promoting the art of flamenco music in magazines as "Flamenco International Magazine", "Jazz Forum" and "Swiat Gitary". In 1998, after a performance in Italy, he was invited to India to teach flamenco guitar at the Academy of Music and Fine Arts in Nagpur. There he started studying Indian music, learning to play the sitar under the guidance of Avaneendra Sheolikar. His fascination for flamenco and Indian music inspired him to go back to the roots of the Gypsy music and record CD titled Indialucia.

Indialucia is a musical project, which fuses two fascinating styles of music: Indian and Flamenco music. The album expresses both the human and musical fusion of these cultures, which could have had a common ancestor. Improvisation and rhythm are the common elements in both styles and are essential to the continued existence of this music. The recordings were made between 1999 and 2004 mostly in India and Spain. Many great artists from the two continents performed. This album is the result of the years of work, which for the first time demonstrates the common elements of flamenco and its Indian roots fused into one art form.
The album was distinguished with the 1st prize "Best Album of the Year 2005" Wirtualne Gesle and 2nd music critics' prize at the New Tradition competition for the "Folk Phonogram of 2005" award.

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This document has been produced with the financial assistance of the Anna Lindh Euro-Mediterranean Foundation for the Dialogue between Cultures. The contents of this document are the sole responsibility of Hungarian Museum of Trade and Tourism and can under no circumstances be regarded as reflecting the position of the Anna Lindh Foundation.

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