LES ETOILES
Soleil par Daniel Schell
Zodiac par Damiano Santini
ALESSANDRA GAROSI pianoforte
DANIEL SCHELL
Sonata pour piano
“Trois Façons de regarder le Soleil”
1- Normal
2- En l’écoutant
3- En se brûlant
DAMIANO SANTINI
Zodiaco
Terra
Virgo La Madre
Tauro Il Cuore che Pulsa
Capricorn La Porta Celeste
Acqua
Escorpion Il più Antico
Cancer L’abitatore delle acque primordiali
Piscis La Forza Opposta
Fuoco
Sagitario L’Unificatore del corpo e dell’anima
Leo Il Sole Invincibile
Aries La Forte Goccia
Aria
Gemini Lo Specchio
Aquario Il portatore dello Spirito
Libra Colui che Cerca
ALESSANDRA GAROSI
Alessandra was born in Siena in 1965, she graduated in piano in 1984 in Florence with Paolo Rio Nardi and Gregoria Gobbi. She then travels to Australia where continues her piano studies with Sonya Hanke in Sydney. On her return to Europe she studied with Pascal Rogè in Nice, with Alain Meunier at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, with Ivan Moravec in Ireland, with Giancarlo Cardini at the GAMO in Florence, with Georgy Sebok in Switzerland and Pier Narciso Masi at the International Academy of Biella. In 1987 she attended the University of Indiana in Bloomington (U.S.A. ) where she studies various disciplines including theater, composition and musical studies with the pianists Shigeo Neriky and Georgy Sebok, chamber music with trio Borodin and composition with John Meuhelsen.
She has been playing on four continents since 1985, guest in major international festivals and theaters.
She has collaborated with great masters of classical music such as Pier Narciso Masi and Harvey Sachs, with illustrious personalities of contemporary jazz such as Stefano Bollani, Stefano Zenni, Enrico Rava and Giorgio Gaslini, played with minimalists including Gavin Bryars, Roger Eno, Michael Nyman. In the context of contemporary and border music she can recall meetings with numerous ensembles and musicians including Kocani Orkestar, trumpeter Markus Stockhausen, with the Finnish quartet Theoreme, the launeddas player from Sardinia Luigi Lai, the composer Kamran Khacheh, as well as Australians David Jones and Adam Simmons. She is also often involved in creative projects such as the Alternative Festival in Prague and the "Festival of Slow Music" and the Sydney Opera House Series in Australia as well as in the review of "Nueva Musica" at the Teatro de la Ciulad in Mexico City. She actively collaborate as lecture and pianist at New York University, Casa Zerilli Marimò (NY-USA) Many composers have written music for her, including Roger Eno, Gavin Bryars, Mitchel Peter Hamel, Kamran Khacheh, Steven Brown, Daniel Schell, May Howlett, Fabrizio De Rossi Re.
She is active as a soloist and was part of the Harmonia Ensemble working in the latter context for the management of Materials Sonori from 1990 to 2010. Harmonia has explored musical territories from minimalism to film music, leaving a wide and varied record literature, from Frank Zappa to Nino Rota. Harmonia was welcomed by the national and international press as an icon of border chamber music in the 1990s and beyond, for more than ten years the ensemble performer in the main International Festival in Europe and Mexico. In theatrical fields she has woven artistic projects with the thatre managers (among others) Kevin Crowford, Giovanni Massa (Ferribotte Film) Romano Usai and Fulvio Cauteruccio.
She has recorded for Warner, New Tone, Ema Records, Materials Sonori, Imps (France), Independent recording (Mexico) Wirripang (Australia Naxos distribution) and at the moment she appears in more than thirty record works. Despite her classical training, she has always been interested in ethnic music and new jazz. Among the latest releases is the project in collaboration with the Centro Studi Busoni on the pianist-composer Giorgio Gaslini’s works, then followed by the piano monograph of the Australian composer May Howlett "May in Black and White" (Wirripang Editions-Naxos) and "Zappa in Recital" for "Fat Rain" taken from the live concert at the Melbourne Recital Hall with Adam Simmons on clarinets and saxophones, David Jones on percussion.
She is Chamber Music professor at Siena Conservatory, often engaged in educational projects of Italian and foreign institutes in the context of Masterclasses aimed at Contemporary Music and Ensemble Music. She has been involved with New York Univeristy (Casa Italiana Zerilli Marimò – New York) with the cultural association Musica negli Horti in San Quirico d’orcia (SI - Italy) with Nomus association in Milan (Museo del Novecento . Milan) and with Festival Mona Foma in Tasmania (Australia)