La Frontera

La Frontera is a musical quartet playing ethnic, Mediterranean and Arabian music; the musicians are Miranda Cortes, Michele Pucci, Michele Sguotti and Francesco Clera. La Frontera is an acoustic formation of freelance musicians, operating across France and Italy (Veneto and Friuli); the group was founded in 2000 from an idea of Miranda Cortes (accordion) when she met Michele Sguotti (violin, viola) and Francesco Clera (percussions). In 2001 Michele Pucci (flamenco guitar) joined the group and in 2005 a cooperation with the singer Federica Doniselli began. La Frontera proposes original songs, composed by the group, as well as reprocessed pieces coming from Mediterranean musical tradition, in particular from areas of Arabian influence (Morocco, Algeria, Egypt, Turkey, etc..). We don't play our music with a philological intent; we rather arrange traditional pieces according to our personal style, always respecting the original songs, mixing them with our personal musical influences (flamenco, classical music, jazz, afro). La Frontera has already played in hundreds of concerts all over Italy and abroad. The group composed 3 Cd: the first one, titled "Oltre le frontiere" is a live album recorded in 2001; the second one "Mar Bianco" has been recorded in 2004. The last album is dated April 2007 titled "Ferme tes yeux".

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Miranda Cortes

She's a french accordionist. She graduates full marks at the Vicenza's Academy of Music; she specialized and achieved a master-class with C. Jacomucci, T. Anzellotti, R. Ruggieri, I. Battiston, U. Noth e J. Macerollo. She cooperated with other artists (the actor Sandro Buzzati, the emilian poet Gianruggero Manzoni, the poet P. Lanaro, the writer Roberto Piumini, the writer-journalist Graziano Pozzetto, the writer Claudia Vio, Gigi dal Bon and others) to produce poetry recital and multimedia cultural events. She took part in various plays with the production of Giorgio Fabbris and Pippo Gentile; she cooperated as a musician and as an actress with the actor Ivano Marescotti, in the first play he directed, "Babe-lè", the first play project financed by the European Community. Together with the English violinist Marianne Wade, she plays a repertoire mixing cultured and folk music: she cooperates moreover with Argentinian tango formations and music of italian singer and songwriters.

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Michele Pucci

He learnt guitar as an autodidact, and after a long run into the fingerstyle he came to flamenco; this kind of music has strongly conditioned the evolution of his style. At the moment, he plays not only with "La Frontera", but cooperates also with the folk violinist Giulio Venier and with the group "La Sedon Salvadie"; about flamenco, Michele Pucci is particulary engaged with the group "Mimbrales". As soloist, he took part in 2003 and 2004 in the Festival Folkest, in the "Soul & Strings" in 2005, and performed many concerts all over Italy. He has been supporter in concerts of Ottmar Liebert, Tommy Emmanuel, Annebjorg Lien, Pedro Javier Gonzales. Since many years he cooperates with the actress Sandra Cosatto in realizing performances for children.

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Michele Sguotti

He reached his degree in viola and specialized in Cremona by the "Stauffer" Foundation. He cooperated with orchestras such as: Orchestra dell' Arena di Verona, Orchestra da Camera di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra da Camera Italiana, Orchestra del Teatro Regio di Parma, Orchestra Filarmonica Veneta di Treviso. He's now First viola in the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico di Vicenza. He carries out an intense activity in quartets; in the field of folk music, at the moment he plays Irish music with the group "Folk Studio A". He cooperated in Giorgio Gaber's last two records and he took part in some concerts of the 2006 tour of Gianna Nannini.

Lorenzo Abu Gasperoni: un percussionista esploratore

Si diploma in percussioni classiche e si perfeziona in batteria sotto la guida del grande maestro Enrico Lucchini; parallelamente coltiva lo studio delle percussioni etniche, specializzandosi in strumenti africani, afrocubani e mediorentali.
Come batterista, percussionista è attivo sulla scena musicale europea dai primi anni ’90 collaborando con grandi artisti come Lester Bowie, Paco Sery, Brian Auger Mauro Pagani, Paolo Fresu, Alfio Antico, Roy Paci, Sagoma Everett, Jamal Ouassini, Famoudou Don Moye, Famoudou Konate e il compositore Giovanni Venosta.
Svolge stabilmente un’intensa attività come musicista e compositore per spettacoli di danza, teatro, cinema, collaborando con numerosi coreografi tra cui Errns Duplan (Haiti), Brigitta Luisa Merki (Svizzera), Mama Adama Camara (Guinea), Frey Faust (USA), Francesca Pedullà, Katina Genero (Italia). Ha partecipato alla creazione e realizzazione di spettacoli per prestigiosi enti come il Teatro Alla Scala e il Piccolo Teatro di Milano.
Come studioso esperto di percussioni da anni tiene corsi, stage e conferenze sul folklore musicale dell’Africa Occidentale per enti pubblici e privati in Italia, Europa e Stati Uniti.
Lorenzo è stato premiato come migliore percussionista creativo europeo al Festival PercFest Memoria Naco, Laigueglia 2006.

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