Hi everyone,
Today I am sitting down with singer, composer and improviser Maddalena Ghezzi.
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About Maddalena:
Maddalena is a singer, composer and improviser born in Milan and living in London. She is passionate and curious about using her voice in creative ways to discover new sounds.
She is currently working on my series of collaborations called MINERALS, her solo work and her band FUWAH’s fourth album.
She is band leader for FUWAH and Stanza Da Tre.She Collaborates with musicians and artists in different disciplines, recent works include call and responses (Andrew Page), Parasang 8 (Pouya Ehsaei//Manana Records) and Animal Choir (Robbie Judkins).
She studied jazz singing with Brigitte Beraha.Maddalena is currently studying Libero Canto, improv and composition with Sara Serpa. To broadener understanding of the voice she has attended workshops in Mongolian throat singing (Michael Orminston and Candida Valentino), Yiddish and Russian songs (Polina Shepherd), Maquam music (Louai Alhenawi) and others.
website: www.maddalenaghezzi.com
Bandcamp: https://maddalenaghezzi.bandcamp.com/
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/3aAhwGrEjfTJwb2YizhhpT?si=0RN1wgHYQ66GCP4bcNnUaA&dl_branch=1
Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC7VIzNEGKXrbp-VAtlpDvTQ
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About Petra:
Petra Is an independent dance artist and tap dancer based in London.
She started her career as a freelance dancer, working on BBC1, The One Show; Sky1 Luie Spence’s Show-Business; Ellen Kent Production, AIDA as well as various music videos, corporate and live events, before making the jump to creating and producing her own work.
Her first outings as a creator, dancer, producer include “Charlie: My message to Humanity”, developed and performed during a one month residency at Lake Studios Berlin, and the solo theatre quadruple bill “Solo Roulette” at the Blue Elephant Theatre, which she produced, and for which she created the spoken word and dance piece “Deliver Me”.
Petra’s frequent collaboration with visual- and multi media artists, and a love for improvisation have led her to extensively perform in improvised multi media events, arts galleries, exhibitions, and live installation.
She is resident dancer at Resonance Performances at The Vortex Jazz club and regularly works with artists such as Patrick Faure, Aurelie Freoua, Gwendolyn Kassenaar and Ley Loosh.
Petra was the first Tap Dancer named in Jazzwise Magazine’s Rising Jazz Artists.
As a tap dancer, she mainly performs in jazz, avant grade and improvised music venues.
Not willing to let the Lockdown in 2020 stop her, Petra started making experimental films and her first short film Depth Perception, commissioned by ESB, Louder than Words was shown at the Tate Lates.
She has also performed in various online shows including Resonances Online (Vortex Jazz Club) Congregate Online (soul city arts), and started the video podcast: TO BE AN ARTIST (YouTube).
Links:
Website: https://www.petrahaller.net
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/petrahaller...
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