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A beautiful excerpt of Sofia Silvestrini performing "Syracuse" by Dyens this past November at the Festival Corde d’Autunno in Milan! This video is part of the Residenze Erranti scholarship programme, which supports young professional guitarists through individual mentorship and the production of high-quality professional video and audio recordings. 🎥 The full video is available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-lh9eQ-d3Q 📆 On Saturday, 20th June, Silvia Escamilla will perform and present their project in Milan at Centro Asteria for a special live presentation. More details coming soon—stay tuned!
Sofia Silvestrini performing Dyens
Silvia Escamilla Jimenez, Residente Errante 2025-2026, presenting her project This video was recorded by Barco Teatro this past March, as part of the Residenze Erranti scholarship. 🎥 The full video is available on the TouchTheSound YouTube channel 👉🏻 On Saturday, 20th June, Silvia will perform and present her project in Milan at Centro Asteria for a special live presentation. More details coming soon—stay tuned!
Silvia Escamilla presentation for Residenze Erranti
BOOK + CD “A Tempo Rubato, Vol. 1: Romantic Music” by Marco Ramelli and Enrica Savigni is now available on our website, Amazon and Bandcamp! 🥳 Essays, articles, drawings, poems and transcriptions in this publication, with the contribution of incredible artists and friends: Jonathan Leathwood, Stefan Hack, Riccardo Pagliani, Paolo De Lorenzi ❤️
BOOK + CD “A Tempo Rubato, Vol. 1: Romantic Music” by Marco Ramelli and Enrica Savigni available!
Part of the Album recording "A Tempo Rubato, Vol. 1: Romantic Music", the beautiful intermezzo op.118 n.2 was arranged for two guitars by Paolo De Lorenzi. You can find the scores in the book! Two special historical guitars were used for this performance: Marco Ramelli played a 1918 Enrique García, while Enrica Savigni played a c.1880 Hijos de González. Video by Giovanni Tammaro, recorded in the mystical Pieve of Cemmo An excerpt from the final event of a three-day program in Cemmo, where students from @cfp_padre_marcolini took part in a training experience alongside professionals from the worlds of music and theatre. Centro Asteria - TouchTheSound - Festival Corde d’Autunno @musnetirl
Duo Ramelli-Savigni plays Brahms #guitar #music #atemporubato
Live performance by Sofia Silvestrini, Residenze Erranti 2025/2026, during the Festival Corde d'Autunno in Milan 2025. Audio and Video: Giovanni Tammaro
Roland Dyens - Syracuse (Sofia Silvestrini | Residenze Erranti)
Silvia Escamilla Jiménez presenting her project for Residenze Erranti: "At the round crossroads. Essences of Spanish Folklore in the Classical Guitar" The main objective of this project is to challenge the uniform stereotype that surrounds the academic discourse and the performance of 20th century classical guitar works inspired by traditional Spanish folk music. The performer’s hermeneutic mission demands complete consistency: we must first identify and decipher the references, signs and symbols concealed in the score to organise them coherently, interpret them and bring them back to life. A new reading of these musical references is proposed in order to uncover their original symbolism and to connectmusicological insight with musical practice. For both the composer and the performer, having a set of aesthetic stereotypes related to Spanish culture can offer the great advantage that they are simple and easily recognisable designs that favour a direct and immediate connection with the listener. However, beneath this colourful facade lies the original reality of the musical idea: its genuine emotional, cultural and artistic references, or its concrete allusion to a specific social reality. This research seeks to trace the original sources of the melodies and dances that inspired this classical guitar repertoire, thereby revealing and recognising, among other aspects, the active role played by rural women in this musical and cultural context. The performance practice of these compositions requires an intertextual approach that, from a multidisciplinary perspective, emphasises and explores the re-contextualisation of the emotional and craft aspects of the heritage of traditional folk music within academic music production. This approach will be essential to understanding the dynamics of this cultural exchange. Audio/Video: Giovanni Tammaro Recorded in Centro Asteria, Milan, February 2026 Discover more: https://cordedautunno.centroasteria.it/team-members/silvia-escamilla-jimenez/
Silvia Escamilla Jiménez - Residenze Erranti 2025/2026
Sofia Silvestrini, Residente Errante 2025-2026, presenting her project “CORDES VOCALES” This video was recorded by Barco Teatro this past March, as part of the Residenze Erranti scholarship. 🎥 The full video is available on the TouchTheSound YouTube channel 👉🏻 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-_RL6AhJoy0 On Saturday 20th June, Sofia will perform and present her project in Milan at Centro Asteria for a special live presentation. More details coming soon—stay tuned! ✨ Applications are now open for the next Residenze Erranti program. You have until May 31 to apply for the 2026–2027 scholarship. More information at the link in bio
Sofia Silvestrini - Residenze Erranti 25/26
Duo Cuadrado-Sprij presenting their project for Residenze Erranti "Bel Canto Reimagined: The Voice and the Guitar in Dialogue". Ignacio Cuadrado, Guitar Laetitia Sprij, voice Our project Bel Canto Reimagined explores the encounter between the voice and the classical guitar through the vocal repertoire of the early Romantic period. Starting from the study of arias by composers such as Rossini, Bellini, and Donizetti, we seek to rediscover this language from an intimate and historically informed perspective, highlighting the sound and expressivity of the 19th-century guitar as an instrument capable of engaging in a natural and poetic dialogue with the voice. Inspired by figures like Luigi Legnani and Mauro Giuliani performers who lived in close contact with the operatic world. we create original arrangements for voice and guitar, exploring the timbral, rhetorical, and expressive possibilities that emerge when this music is brought from grand opera houses into a chamber setting. As part of the project, we will also present several of Rossini’s arias arranged for voice and guitar within one of Giuliani’s Rossiniane, performed by Laetitia (voice) and Nacho (guitar). This will allow us to explore the connection between Giuliani’s virtuosic reimagining of Rossini’s themes and the original vocal material itself. Bel Canto Reimagined is, above all, a quest to keep tradition alive through a contemporary, sensitive, and personal lens. Audio/Video: Giovanni Tammaro Recorded in Centro Asteria, Milan, February 2026 Discover more: https://cordedautunno.centroasteria.it/team-members/duo-cuadrado-sprij/
Duo Cuadrado-Sprij - Residenze Erranti 2025/2026
Sofia Silvestrini presenting her project for Residenze Erranti "CORDES VOCALES: expanding the classical guitar through the voice" When thinking about the combination of voice and guitar, two distinct dimensions immediately come to mind: the duo made up of a guitarist and a singer as separate entities, or the singer-songwriter who accompanies themselves on the instrument. Consequently, the type of repertoire one might expect also changes: while the first formation is quite common in the classical chamber music context, the second is associated, in the collective imagination, primarily with modern pop, rock, and folk music. But is it possible for a third, hybrid role to exist between these two worlds? This project arises from the desire to explore, as a solo musician, the different ways in which guitar and voice can interact, from traditional accompanied melody to the use of singing, vocal gestures and sounds as a timbral and expressive extension of the instrument, focusing both on existing works conceived for a single performer and on new pieces commissioned to contemporary composers, in order to establish a repertoire where voice and guitar are parts of one integrated instrument. The aim is to discover how these two dimensions can merge beyond the boundaries of chamber music and predefined musical genres, offering new challenges and skills to the classical guitarist. Through this exploration, the project seeks to revisit the figure of the guitarist-singer within the world of classical music and to broaden the solo repertoire by integrating an expressive tool that every musician already possesses: the voice. Audio/Video: Giovanni Tammaro Recorded in Centro Asteria, Milan, February 2026 Discover more: https://cordedautunno.centroasteria.it/team-members/sofia-silvestrini/
Sofia Silvestrini - Residenze Erranti 2025/2026
Trio Vasquez-Genta-Mastropietro, Residenti Erranti 2025-2026, presenting their project “GRACIAS A LA VIDA” This video was recorded by Barco Teatro this past March, as part of the Residenze Erranti scholarship. 🎥 The full video is available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnojebqLCJA On Saturday 20th June, Trio Vasquez-Genta-Mastropietro (voice and guitars) will perform and present their project in Milan at Centro Asteria for a special live presentation. More details coming soon—stay tuned! ✨ Applications are now open for the next Residenze Erranti program. You have until May 31 to apply for the 2026–2027 scholarship. More information at the link in bio.
Trio Vasquez-Genta-Mastropietro - Residenze Erranti 2025/2026
Trio Vasquez-Genta-Mastropietro presenting their project for Residenze Erranti "GRACIAS A LA VIDA" Victoria Vasquez, voce | Deniz Mastropietro – Giorgio Genta, chitarre This project was born from the desire to pay homage to Mercedes Sosa, one of the most powerful and beloved voices in South American music. It offers a musical journey that intertwines poetry, tradition, and human emotion, reinterpreting her repertoire through the sensitivity of classically trained musicians open to exploring popular and folk traditions. The songs—performed in their original language—are reimagined as “folk art songs,” where timbre, form, and interpretation reveal their poetic essence and emotional intensity. The dialogue between classical guitar and voice becomes intimate and profound, while the bass guitar—deeply rooted in South American folk culture yet rarely heard in concert halls—adds warmth and resonance, enriching the expressive palette. In a time marked by distance and fragility, this project becomes a gentle act of harmony and remembrance. The chosen songs—echoes of voices that have sung of love, loss, and hope—resonate with timeless beauty, carrying within them the breath of a people and their landscapes. The project also welcomes collaboration with contemporary composers, inviting them to create new works inspired by this vibrant musical world, ensuring that its poetic spirit continues to evolve and resonate in the present. Audio/Video: Giovanni Tammaro Recorded in Centro Asteria, Milan, February 2026 Discover more: https://cordedautunno.centroasteria.it/team-members/trio-vasquez-mastropietro-genta/
Trio Vasquez-Genta-Mastropietro - Residenze Erranti 2025/2026
A beautiful excerpt of Silvia Escamilla Jiménez performing 𝐋𝐞𝐲𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐚 𝐂𝐚𝐭𝐚𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐚 by Gaspar Cassadó this past November at the Festival Corde d’Autunno in Milan! This video is part of the Residenze Erranti scholarship programme, which supports young professional guitarists through individual mentorship and the production of high-quality professional video and audio recordings. Apply for the scholarship and become one of the next Residenze Erranti artists! Deadline: 31 May 2026. Click here: https://cordedautunno.centroasteria.it/residenze-erranti/ 🎥 The full video is available here https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-lh9eQ-d3Q 📆 On Saturday 20th June, Silvia Escamilla will perform and present their project in Milan at Centro Asteria for a special live presentation. More details coming soon—stay tuned!
Gaspar Cassadó - Leyenda Catalana (Silvia Escamilla Jiménez | Residenze Erranti)
Silvia Escamilla, Residenze Erranti 2025/2026 (Edition 3) performing Leyenda catalana by Gaspar Cassadó (1897-1966) during the Festival Corde d’Autunno in Milan Dedicated to guitarist Andrés Segovia, this is one of the last works for guitar by composer and cellist Gaspar Cassadó. It is a highly elaborate version of the traditional Catalan Christmas song “El Noi de la Mare,” a popular carol (villancico) or lullaby (nana) with clear childlike connotations. It includes lullaby elements such as the syncopated rhythm that imitates rocking and the repetition of the melody. As for its origin, it is a well-documented melody with many versions and alternative lyrics. Commonly known as a Christmas song in Catalonia, it is also found in other regions of Spain. There are numerous guitar arrangements of this piece, from the first one by Miguel Llobet to Manuel María Ponce’s version in Canción popular gallega (1926), as well as more recent adaptations. Live recording: Milan, Centro Asteria Audio-Video: Giovanni Tammaro
Gaspar Cassadó - Leyenda Catalana (Silvia Escamilla Jiménez | Residenze Erranti)
Laetitia (voice) and Nacho (guitar) explore the encounter between the voice and the classical guitar through the vocal repertoire of the early Romantic period.
Duo Cuadrado Sprij | Bel Canto Reimagined: The Voice and the Guitar in Dialogue | Residenze Erranti
Residenze Erranti is proud to present Lucrezia Bonasia and her project “Aracne Y Duende.” Recorded in Milan, Centro Asteria by Giovanni Tammaro
Lucrezia Bonasia | Aracne y duende | Residenze Erranti
Lucrezia Bonasia presenting her project for Residenze Erranti, "Aracne y Duende" "The project explores the relationship between Spanish and Southern Italian folk music traditions, focusing in particular on their shared rhythmic and cultural roots. At the centre of this investigation lies the Taranta, an ancient musical form that spread across Italy and Spain from the 16th century onward, distinguished by its intense and hypnotic rhythmic patterns. Originally conceived as a form of musical therapy for the supposed effects of a spider’s bite, this tradition gradually evolved over the centuries and eventually found expression in the classical guitar repertoire. The primary objective of the project is to establish a dialogue between the 16th-century Spanish Tarantelas—transcribed for the modern guitar—and selected works from the classical guitar canon that exhibit comparable rhythmic or expressive characteristics. Through this comparison, the project seeks to revive the spirit and energy of the ancient Taranta within a contemporary musical context." Audio/Video: Giovanni Tammaro Recorded in Centro Asteria, Milan, February 2026 Discover more https://cordedautunno.centroasteria.it/team-members/lucrezia-bonasia/
Lucrezia Bonasia - Residenze Erranti 2025/2026
Jacopo Figini (guitar) and Marco Costantini (vibraphone) are two Italian musicians that together form the Hiraeth Duo. 🔹In this short they present their project on transcription, new music for this incredible formation, worked during the Residenze Erranti programme. Recorded in Milan, Centro Asteria by Giovanni Tammaro
Duo Hiraeth - Vibraphone and Guitar in Residenze Erranti!✨
Duo Hiraeth presenting their project for Residenze Erranti "Fusão do Sons". Jacopo Figini, Guitar Marco Costantini, Vibraphone "The project is called “Fusão do Sons”, a Portuguese expression meaning “Mix of Sounds”, a name that describes our ensemble, which brings together classical guitar and vibraphone – an uncommon combination that offers a rich blend of harmonics and a wide dynamic range. The main goal of this project is to bring a unique sound to the stage with a fresh, creative performance style – one that channels high energy and explores the full expressive potential of our instruments. To achieve this, we began by transcribing a repertoire that naturally suits our duo’s character. At the same time, we are collaborating with composers who are creating original works for us. All these efforts aim to channel our energy, sound, and experience toward the audience. We believe there are new ways to experience classical music – ways that can truly bring people closer to this wonderful art form." Audio/Video: Giovanni Tammaro Recorded in Centro Asteria, Milan, February 2026 Discover more: https://cordedautunno.centroasteria.it/team-members/duo-hiraeth/
Duo Hiraeth - Residenze Erranti 2025/2026
CALL TO ARtS here performing for the final event of Residenze Erranti edition 2 in Milan. Discover more on our website!!
CALL TO ARtS performing in Milan #residenzeerranti
A beautiful short from a performance by Lucrezia in Padua’s Barco Teatro (Italy) performing Tarantella in Tono Hypodorio by Athaniasius Kircher, arranged by her. Lucrezia is part is part of the artistic residency Residenze Erranti, edition n.3
✨Lucrezia Bonasia performing in Padua as Residenze Erranti artist
Victoria Vasquez, Giorgio Genta and Deniz Mastropietro performing in Padua Barco Teatro in December 2025 as part of Residenze Erranti Artists. Here playing a beautiful song by G. Leguizamon and M. Castilla “La Arenosa”
✨Trio Vasquez-Genta-Mastropietro performing in Barco Teatro as Residenze Erranti Artists
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