People

Institutions and Projects

Here you’ll find our partner institutions, associated projects, befriended voice Centers, and organizations we have encountered in our research.

Artists, Researchers, Educators, and Team

An overview of the Center’s voices, arranged alphabetically.

Agnese Banti

Sound artist, musician and overtone singer, originally from a valley of northern Tuscany and roomer in different places of the Mediterranean area, she is actually based in Bologna, working with sound in music, performances, installations and audiovisuals. With a colourful path of studies (in...

Lucia Amara

Lucia Amara works and lives in Bologna. Her research focuses on vocality, on performative languages and on some irregular forms of literary languages. Lucia Amara is a scenic art theorist who is particularly interested in experimenting between theory and practice. With a background in classical...

Nicol Bana

A music producer, singer-songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist, Nicol Bana writes in Italian, samples sounds from everyday life, and arranges them into musical collages with an aesthetic between electronic and avant-pop, accompanying herself with synths and electric guitar.

Nieszka Bogusławska

Somatic psychotherapist trained in the Bodynamic® method, dance artist, educator, researcher, and founder of the Nurt Foundation. She is currently training in the Body-Mind Centering® approach within the Somatic Movement Educator and Practitioner certification program. As an artist, she works with...

Jacopo Cenni

Born in 1995, Jacopo Cenni is a composer and live performer. The relationship with technology is a crucial point of his artistic activity: through Computer Music and CAC techniques, Cenni creates organic and immersive sound constructs. His research on the gestural dimension in the practice of live...

Meike Clarelli

Singer, composer, choir director, vocal researcher, and music therapist. She studied contemporary music and jazz at the Frescobaldi Conservatory of Ferrara. She studied voice and vocal pedagogy with Imke McMurtrie in Germany. In 2024, she graduated as a Psychophonetic Music Therapist from the...

Giuditta de Concini

An accomplished dancer and instructor, Giuditta de Concini began her study of contemporary dance in 1996 under the guidance of Roberta Zerbini (SeleneCentro Studi, EkoDanza - Bologna). She further explored Graham, Laban, Limon, Cunningham, and release techniques with Georges Gatecluod Dit...

Chiara Cortez

Songwriter and vocal performer, vocal improviser, circlesing facilitator, and aspiring ‘giraffe’ of Nonviolent Communication. Chiara is co-founder of the “Circlesinging Roma” initiative, the first open circling community in the Italian capital, active since 2015, and of the improvised performance...

Federica D’Aversa

Federica D’Aversa is a dancer and performer born in 1992. In 2021, she graduated in contemporary dance from the Civica Scuola di Teatro Paolo Grassi. In 2022, she emerged as a performer in Michele Ifigenia/Tyche’s projects, distinguishing herself with her interpretation in “CUMA,” which has...

Vittoria Totale

A curator, voice artist and writer, she works at the intersection of music, contemporary art and language, with a particular interest in creating performative and imaginative open-source spaces. Vittoria’s DJ sets are part of an ongoing research of voice in sound and voice as sound, ranging from...

Sun Elmi

They describe themselves as a person in movement, in connection and in constant transformation. Half chameleonic, half shape-shifter. What gives them stability and center is the sense of community, collective care and constancy they put into their practices. They are currently working as a holistic...

Simone Grande

Simone Grande is an Italian musician and composer. He operates in Bologna in the field of experimentation through the study and exploration of classical and electroacoustic repertoire; these become the main tools for creating instruments and structures for live performance, improvisation, and fixed...

Giulia Ledda

Actress and musician since 2007 in Italy and abroad. Master in Applied Theatre, with a focus on the internal rhythms and musicality of the body. She has been working in Brussels since 2017 as a director, stage musician, singer, actor, performer, in artistic and social cohesion projects. Trained in...

Alice Norma Lombardi

Alice Norma Lombardi is a singer, born in 1991 in Conegliano(TV). She obtained a bachelor degree in opera singing in 2015 at the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali “Vecchi-Tonelli” of Modena under the guidance of Marina Comparato, William Matteuzzi, and then continued her studies with Donatella...

Thollem McDonas

Thollem is a pianist, keyboardist, composer, improviser, singer-songwriter, activist, author and teacher. He has toured throughout North America and Europe as an itinerant artist for two decades, performing, teaching and collaborating in myriad situations across the idiomatic spectrum. Thollem’s...

Emma Manghi

Project Designer, educator, and performer, her artistic and professional path is driven by a passion for performing arts and their exploration as an educational and connecting tool. In 2012 she approached the performing arts under the guidance of Ilaria Gerbella and Loredana Scianna, discovering a...

Eugenia Marzi

Curious about stories, legends, songs, and lullabies, and about what the oral tradition has left behind, such as sounds and words, Eugenia Marzi has always been connected to polyphonic singing. She has sung in numerous choirs, from France to Brazil to Bentivoglio together with the Mondine....

Giulia Matteucci

Singer, vocal improviser, circle singing facilitator and community builder. Her research commitment encourages the development of vocality in the artistic field and well-being through music. Founder of “Circlesinging Bologna”: artistic and community project through which she promotes activities...

Federico Nardella

He conducts his musical and artistic research in the field of hyper-amplification of inaudible sounds. The exploration of silence is used as a pretext to investigate noise, forcing attention on the invisible and forgotten sonic universe of everyday life. In his compositions, minute elements...

NicoNote

NicoNote is an alias created by Nicoletta Magalotti (I/A) in 1996, an artist active in the fields of music, theatre, art installations, radio and beyond. A researcher equally attuned to the club and the theatre, NicoNote is engaged in sound art and performance as well as storytelling and...

Daphne Nisi Mete

Roman singer, composer and performer, she is an artist characterized by a strong vocal and musical versatility. She approaches vocal improvisation by studying with mentors from around the world and in turn holding workshops to develop and unleash extemporaneous competitive skills and build...

Emanuela Sforza

A woman and artist originally from Serra de’ Conti and adopted by Bologna, Emanuela Sforza has always carried within her an inexhaustible passion for photography, which she develops in a completely personal journey since, in the second half of the 1970s, she discovers the allure of dance, which...

Pietro Trallori

Sound designer, performer, and trumpeter, he graduated with honors in Electronic Music from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory of Florence and currently pursuing a Master’s degree in Sound Design at the Giovan Battista Martini Conservatory of Bologna. He began studying classical trumpet at the L....

Francesco Venturi

Francesco Venturi is the director and founding member of CRIV. Composer, voice artist, and researcher, he is a PhD candidate at Kingston University London, with a study on voice education and the access question. For the past decade, he has developed voice-based projects within and without the live...

Olimpia Vivarelli

Speech-Language Pathologist expert in Artistic Vocology, lecturer in the Speech-Language Pathology degree program at the University of Ferrara and at the Vocology Master’s in Ravenna. She focuses on prevention, assessment, and rehabilitation of voice disorders in spoken, acted, and sung contexts....