Institutions and Projects
Here you’ll find our partnering institutions, associated projects, and befriended voice Centers.
-The Centre for Interdisciplinary Voice Studies, University of Exeter, UK -Centre of Voice Studies, Aarhus University, Denmark -[Department of Child and Adolescent Neuropsychiatry (U.O.N.P.I.A.], Milan Polyclinic Hospital, Italy](https://www.policlinico.mi.it/reparti/45/neuropsichiatria-dellinfanzia-e-delladolescenza) -Associazione Mirmica, Milan, Italy
Artists, Researchers, Teachers, 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 humanities, design and communication, electronic music and sound design) and a multidirectional interest in sound and music, her activity has always been gravitating around many points of attraction: such as choral music, soundscape studies, traditional folk music repertoires, space composition and the collaborative dimension of making music. One of the things that fascinated her the most in recent years is the research made around a sound installation project on frog voices and ancient ruins that she realised between the Electronic Music School of Bologna and the Ionian University of Corfu for her master’s degree.
She collaborates with Tempo Reale, the esteemed centre for musical research, production and education in Florence founded by Luciano Berio and she works on overtones singing projects with the Italian composer Roberto Laneri. She’s the creator of the intimate music project The Songbook and the co-founder of the electronic music collective born in the Conservatory of Bologna (2018-2021). Recently she collaborated with the choreographer Marta Bellu in “I versi delle mani” and she attended Malagola, the School of vocality and international centre for voice studies based in Ravenna.
In 2023, thanks to the support for artistic research from FONDO – Network for Emerging Creativity, she dedicated herself to the project “Speaking cables, choreographic device for voice, cables and loudspeakers”, in collaboration with the sound designer and computer musician Andrea Trona.
Her works have been performed in Italy, Ireland, Greece, Portugal, the UK and the US. She collects music tapes and spinning tops in order to “play” them all.
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.
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 electronics, carried out at the Conservatory of Trento, culminated in the sound theater work HUNT (2022), which debuted at Biennale Musica 2022 and with which he graduated in Electronic Music with the highest honors. More recently, he has been specifically interested in the relationship between choreography and music, taking part in multidisciplinary projects in contexts such as the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (FR) and the GRADUS residency of the Reggio Parma Festival (IT).
His works have been presented in events such as La Biennale di Venezia (IT), Glasgow Science Center (UK), Festival Accademia Chigiana (IT), ZiMMT (DE), Fondazione Luigi Nono (IT), and others.
Daniele Chieppa
Performer, choreographer, dancemaker. Student of Performing Arts at the University of Bologna, he studied acting and contemporary dance; now he is working for theatrical productions as a performer and collaborates in the creation of performances and video dance works with choreographers and visual artists.
He is teaching dance for children, and he is also conducting dance theater workshops for adults. From 2023, he is Dance Well teacher, sharing dance practices for people with Parkinson’s.
He has been assistant of “Officine di Creazione” dance company, led by Paola Palmi.
He is involved in the creation of site-specific performances and is currently pursuing his own research on the “alien and queer performative body”, distant from any form of canon and any stereotypes.
Now he is working on his first choreographic piece, and it will debut in 2024.
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 International Academy of Psychophony, Mantova.
Since 2009, she has been the founder and director of the women’s choir “Le chemin des Femmes” as part of the Amigdala Collective, and since 2016, she has directed the women’s choir in Bologna called Le Core (Jaya Association). She released five albums as singer and songwriter with the musical group La Metralli (Ciampi Award 2012 and selected for the Tenco Award in 2014). Since 2016, she has been a composer and multi-instrumentalist for the electronic project Dueventi. Since 2014, she has been part of the Amigdala Collective, producing vocal installations and performances such as Elementare, KIN, and MAGNITUDO. From 2011 to present, she has released 12 recordings of original musical projects, choral works, and performances for various labels, including the British Audio Network. Since 2018, she has collaborated internationally with artist Claudia Losi on the production and creation of musical and vocal performances, including two albums: “Voce a vento” (Cilento, NA) and “Being There” (Birmingham, UK). Since 2023, she has been a voice teacher at the Iolanda Gazzero School of Advanced Training for Actors of Emilia Romagna Theatre. She worked with Argentine director Lola Arias as composer and choir director for international productions of “Lingua Madre” at Emilia Romagna Theatre in Bologna, Italy, the National Drama Center in Madrid, Spain, and the Gorki Theater in Berlin, Germany (“Mother Tongue”). Also in 2023, she began collaborating as vocal coach for dancers and stage music composer with choreographer Simona Bertozzi for the production of Athletes.
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 Bellecroix (Centre de dance du Marais - Paris) and Richard Haisma (Laban Institute - New York). Between 1999 and 2001, she studied contemporary dance with Nicola Laudati and Simona Bertozzi (new dance, release technique, floor work - Bologna), attended intensive workshops on the use of voice held by Sabina Meyer, and participated in Rom Ciceko dance workshops led by Afrim and Dulfadhana Beijzaku. In 2002, she began studying Bharatanāṭyam with Nuria Sala Grau.
She deepened her study with Indian masters K. Mohan, Pramila and H. Hariharan, C.K. Balagopalan, P.T. Narendran, Meena Raman, Win Thang, C.V Chandrashekar, Sangeeta Ishvaran, Shantala Shivalingappa, Hema Bharati Palani, and especially Smt. Leela Samson, through workshops and stays in both India and Italy. Since 2005, she has combined the study of Bharatanāṭyam with the practice of Hatha yoga and Kundalini yoga. She regularly practices Tai Chi under the patient guidance of Denise Vallo, with intensive workshops led by Shrfu Edward Coughlin. Since 2007, she has combined teaching Bharatanāṭyam with performing. Since 2009, she has regularly collaborated with the Department of Music and Performing Arts at the University of Bologna, where she annually conducts lecture-performances on South Indian dance theater. Since 2011, she has been a student of Smt. Priyadarsini Govind.
From 2009 to 2012, she led the activities of Associazione Culturale Mudra (Bologna), organizing courses, events, seminars, and performances related to Indian culture, with internationally renowned professionals and students. Since 2012, she has continued this activity with Associazione Culturale Jaya. Among her most important artistic and human collaborations are those with dancers and teachers Apoorva Jayaraman, Haru Kugo, Marianna Biadene, Sufi dancer and musician Dhamal Ayub Noor Muhammad, and Sutradhari Monica Gallarate.
Giuditta is a co-founder of Collettiva Dhuni, a feminist performance ensemble.
Sara Giordani
Sara Giordani is a somatic researcher and educator, performer, Hatha yoga teacher, Danzeducatrice®, and Tuina practitioner. Her refined research focuses on the universality of the body and perception, aiming to create new interconnected languages and conscious interrelations with the environment and other species.
Born in Trieste, she began studying Classical Dance as a child, later expanding into Contemporary Dance (Graham technique, release technique, floorwork) and Dance Theatre, pursuing her training across Italy and Europe. Her technical-expressive and compositional development was significantly shaped by working with Raffaella Giordano, Antonella Bertoni, Julie Ann Stanzak (Tanztheater Wuppertal), Masaki Iwana, Giorgio Rossi, and Gloria Desideri.
She has extensively studied various somatic disciplines, including Feldenkrais and Body-Mind Centering® (currently completing certification as a Somatic Movement Educator). A yoga practitioner since 1997, she completed her Anusara Yoga teacher training in 2016 with Piero Vivarelli and Andrea Boni, furthering her studies with teachers like Desirèe Rumbaugh, Carlos Pomeda, Ellen Saltonstall, and Sianna Sherman, with particular focus on non-dual Yoga of Kashmiri Shaivite Tantra. She also holds a freediving certification, obtained to deepen her understanding of breathing techniques. Her education includes Traditional Chinese Medicine, Tuina, and Chinese Medical Gymnastics (Qi Gong and Taiji) at the Matteo Ricci Institute and Tao School in Bologna (2009). In 2023, she completed her training as a Danzeducatrice®.
Since 2016, she has pursued personal choreographic research and collaborated with visual artists, exploring the relationship between body, space, matter, and perception, and the dialogue between subtle body and imaginative gesture. Her works include “Corporea” (2016), “Opera” (2019), “Sensibili alle foglie, primo studio” (2020), and “Cantico Silvestre” (2022).
From 2017 to 2020, she assisted with the Corpo Poetico® project, focusing on artistic/social integration in physical theatre and dance. She co-founded MetROzero, a human-specific project centered on individual and community value, developing participatory theatre projects in urban and natural settings. In 2007, she co-founded Samà, a cultural and artistic promotion, production, and training center in Bologna, serving as artistic director until 2024.
Since 2014, her pedagogical experience has continued to evolve, focusing on body expression techniques and somatic practices integrating body and mind. Her approach emphasizes human complexity and movement as a means of conscious relationship and communication, aiming to generate creative awareness that respects both self and others. She conducts workshops and seminars for adults and children with an intergenerational and intersectional approach.
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 media music.
He has collaborated with various contemporary scenes in Italy, also in the field of dance for live music and fixed media music. He has worked in various important experimental music scenes in Italy, such as “Tempo Reale” in Florence and “Teatro San Leonardo,” the venue hosting the Angelica Festival. Currently, he teaches at the popular music school “Ivan Illich” in Bologna.
He has collaborated and performed with artists such as Alvin Curran, Motus Ensemble, Elio Martusciello, Walter Zanetti, Damiano Meacci, Lelio Camilleri, Francesco Giomi, Giorgio Magnanensi, Maurizio Pisati, Alessandro Sbordoni, Jari Boldrini, Giulio Petrucci, Virgilio Sieni, Christian Wolff, Julien Desprez.
Alice Norma Lombardi
A graduate in operatic singing, Alice Norma Lombardi has been dedicating herself to voice research for years. She is active as a vocalist both in early music and in contemporary and experimental music, in Italy and abroad. She regularly holds workshops on the voice for the International Museum and Library of Music in Bologna.
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. Graduated in Literature with a thesis on folk singing in the Apennines, today she works in outdoor education and continues to study music, bringing it into the many spheres of life.
Giulia Matteucci
Giulia Matteucci is a vocal improviser, singer, and facilitator of Circle Singing. She focuses on empowering vocal precesses and well-being through music and is the founder of Circle Singing Bologna, where she leads workshops and long term paths centered around Circle Singing and Collaborative Vocal Improvisation.
Giulia holds a degree in Music Performance and Production from the LCCM in London and a degree in Singing from the Jazz Conservatory of Ferrara, Italy. With over fifteen
years of teaching experience, she is passionate about the voice expression and its role in artistic communication and community building. She has received specialized training in facilitation techniques both in Italy and abroad, including from the CircleSong School of Bobby McFerrin in Berkeley, CA. Additionally, she completed a university master’s degree in Circlesinging Education and further master training in leadership with the Musica Do Circulo group in São Paulo, Brazil.
Giulia is active on the Italian and European scene and she is also a founding member of Collettivo CantIncerchio, Italian collective of Circle Singing and vocal improvisation facilitators.
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 will become one of the fundamental points of her research.
By observing and studying the construction of ballet, the theatrical space, the play of light and shadow, Sforza captures the moment in which sinuous bodies move, focusing particularly on the expression of the human being and portraying them in their environment, to know, understand, and appropriate, and then return to us, their inner emotionality, in a play characterized by exceptional contrasts of black and white.
Sforza’s artistic research starts from dance and then turns her gaze to the theater, enters the studios of artists, and focuses on portraits of working women. Her photographs are exclusively black and white shots that she personally develops, spending hours and hours in the darkroom, until the soul of the image evolves as she herself desires. The artist has to her credit over a hundred exhibitions of national and international importance, awards, prizes, and publications.
Alessandro Tampieri
He graduated in Philosophy with a thesis in English Language and Literature from the University of Bologna and University College of Galway, Ireland, and trained in theatrical disciplines in Italy and the United States.
As an actor, he has worked with numerous theater companies on prose repertoire, musicals, operettas, and contemporary music. His monologue Schifo/Dreck, directed by Gianfranco Rimondi, was chosen for the reopening of Teatro Magnolfi Nuovo in Prato. He specialized in directing with renowned professionals and completed the Advanced Training and Specialization Course in Opera Directing. He designed several series of performances and festivals, and adapted and directed multimedia projects and theatrical versions of novels.
As a dramaturg, he collaborates with choreographer Carla Vannucchi on solo and international danceability projects. He debuted in immersive theater projects and shows on social themes. Since 2014, he has collaborated with Istituzione Bologna Musei and the network of European historical cemeteries ASCE for site-specific projects. He has overseen the artistic direction of intercultural festivals and festivals for actresses and authors.
He teaches acting and stage techniques for various performers and collaborates with educational institutions on communication and accessibility projects. He completed a Master of Multimedia Translation and training courses in Audiotranslation, and he collaborates as an audio describer for theater accessibility.
In the 2022 Wonderland Festival, he curated a dramaturgy workshop and the staging of an itinerant show in the Castello di Brescia.
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 arts, collaborating with institutions internationally and intersectionally. His interests encompass the relationship between voice and identity, opera, extended vocal techniques, somatics, critical musicology, music curation, transformability, and radical pedagogies.
A spokesperson for the emerging field of voice studies, Venturi has been leading educational projects across Europe, including at the Milan Conservatory, Goldsmiths University, Festival della Scienza, Policlinico of Milan, and Refuge Worldwide Berlin. He worked as educational curator at Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo and Festival Milano Musica, and worked as a teacher trainer for projects such as OperaDomani. He published research in academic journals and edited the book “Creak: Theories and Practices of Pulse Phonation” (2024), the first monography dedicated to vocal fry.
An active music curator, he created the Microstagione festival in Milan (2012) and co-founded the venue Spettro in Brescia (2018). He is also on the editorial board of “TURBA: The Journal for Global Practices in Live Arts Curation”.
Venturi has performed since age nine. Currenlty, he alternates between opera and experimental singing, and has collaborated with choirs like OperaLombardia and LaVerdi. He has lent his voice to films, artworks, podcasts, and one video game, and was the vocalist of duo Interlingua. In 2023, he presented his vocal performance “Urvoice” at Hangar Bicocca in Milan.
As a composer, Venturi has created music for cinema, live and visual arts, including award-winning soundtracks like “Stonebreakers” by Valerio Ciriaci (USA 2022), as well as productions by artists like Rimini Protokoll. In 2021, he created the show “Donizetti On” for the reopening of Teatro Donizetti. His music has been presented in institutions such as Palais de Tokyo in Paris and Teatro Nazionale in Milan. Along the years, he collaborated with artists such as Thollem McDonas, Francesco Micheli, Tamara Handerson, Thomas Hirschhorn, Pier Lorenzo Pisano, Vassilina, Danilo Correale, Igor Simić, and Jason Dodge, among others.
He holds degrees in composition from the Milan Conservatory, musicology from Goldsmiths University, and graphics from the Brera Academy. An alumnuns of Malagola School in Ravenna, he studied singing and voice with Guillermo Bussolini, Margaret Pikes, and Ermanna Montanari.