VOCELLANDO duo

Luisa Cottifogli - voice
Enrico Guerzoni - cello

They formed in 1991 when both artists were called to the stage to improvise a Gospel Spiritual. From that day on, Luisa Cottifogli and Enrico Guerzoni have performed on the music scene all over Italy and also abroad. Together with the Petronius trio, with Aurelio Zarrelli on the piano, they won the International Competition of the City of Ispra in 1992, and the International Competition at the Philharmonic Academy of Rome in 1994.  They have also performed as a quartet with the percussionist Roberto Rossi. Luisa is currently the singer for the Italian band Quinto Rigo and is also working on various projects, including “Aiò Nenè “ and “ Rumì ”. Enrico is the founder of ”Arkè Quartet “, and the “Kuasar String Kuartet” as well as the “ Ten Strings duo “ (cello- guitar).Their repertoire has a trail in space and time, from John Dowland’s 16thC England to their own original compositions, along the way passing through Italy, of course, the Arab world and the Sephardic Jews, touching on Fado and Brazilian music, reviving the Spiritual/Blues tradition and the unforgettable Jazz standards of great American musicians of years gone by.

	AUDIO DEMO
	DOS AMANTES
	ROSA
	MAR AZUL
	IVE GOT RITHM
	U CARDILLO
	PHERAPS

LUISA COTTIFOGLI
For years now, she has experimented with different vocal techniques, from classical, ancient music and contemporary; Jazz and ethnic. She also enjoys breaking down the barriers with with the visual arts and in theatre.She graduated in singing from the "G.B.Martini" Music College and in drama from the Academy of Dramatic Arts in Bologna.  She has also earned herself a diploma in Choral singing from the Teatro Comunale dell'Opera in Bologna. She has studied under the guidance of Paride Venturi, from Bologna, Gabriella Ravazzi, from Genova, Ustad Aslam Khan and Danashree Pandit Rai, from Bombay.She has worked as a soprano in the choir and orchestra of the Teatro Comunale dell'Opera in Bologna.  As an actress she has worked in the theatre Teatro delle Moline (shows include: "Recapito Prossimo", "Santità") and for the director, Luigi Gozzi.She has worked as a programmer/presenter for the radio programme "Se son rose…" for RAI-Radio 2.She has appeared on numerous TV programmes on TVE (Spanish National T.V.), ORF (Austrian National radio), Radio-RAI ("La musica nella stanza", "Il frutto senza nome" radio film by Bonifacio-Isgrò).With the San Petronius Trio (Aurelio Zarrelli, Enrico Guerzoni) she won the International Competition of Ispra in 1992 and the June Junior Competition at the Philharmonic Academy in Rome in 1994.  As leader and arranger of the female voice sextet, Vocinblù, she has worked with:Glauco Mauri ( in “The Tempest" by Shakespeare, music by Arturo Annechino ), Ivano Fossati in "Macramè" (Columbia-Sony, with Trilok Gurtu, Tony Levin, Riccardo Tesi, Mario Arcari), Lucio Dalla on Milingo’s first CD (Pressing-BMG Ricordi) and in the T.V. programme "Taxi" on RAI3, Sentieri Selvaggi from Milano, She has participated in the Rossini Opera Festival '98 ( music by Azio Corghi) and in the Salone della Musica in Turin '97 ( music by Nicola Campogrande).As a solo artist she has sung for: Giovanna Marini in "Il dono della veggenza" in Bologna and Paris;David Riondino in his recital inspired by "Cantico dei Cantici";Andrea Centazzo perfomring some of his pieces for voice and orchestra;Roberto Cacciapaglia performing in concert;Andrea Parodi (ex singer of Tazenda) in his project "Ninneh" and in concert with Marlevar;Marlevar, with whom she released the CD, of the same name, with Forrest Hills Rec. and participated in Italia al tour "The Wide World Over 02" by the  Chieftains, legendary Irish group;Metissage, with whom she performed alongside Teresa De Sio, Rita Marcotulli and Ambrogio Sparagna and has released the CD for Il Manifesto;Flavio Premoli, for whom she released  the CD "Variazioni" (Virgin, with Phil Manzanera and Demo Morselli); Giovanni Amighetti in the CD-compilation "And if the world…" (ARV-Suoni dell'altro mondo '02, with music by Ayub Ogada, Tiziana Ghiglioni, Adel Salameh, Terem Quartet, Guo Yue and Joji Hirota) and on a CD soon to be released playing with the Chinese flautist, Guo Hue and the Norwegian percussionist Helge Norbakken.For years she sang in other groups with the jazz guitarist Tomaso Lama.She has performed with musicians such as: Massimo Manzi, Ettore Fioravanti, Roberto Bartoli, Vladimir Denissenkov, Guo Hue.In the world of ancient music, she has collaborated with Giorgio Magnanensi, Candace Smith, Stefano Rocco, Fabio Tricomi, Pedro Memelsdorf, Octandre-Musica Attuale from Bologna, AGON in Milano and Caronte from Brescia. In 1999 the ORF (Austrian National Radio) commissioned a show on Italy. This is how the project "Aiò Nenè" (I come from the North but I am from the South) originally came about, which has toured in:  Austria (Auditorium of the National Radio ORF in Vienna, Linz Festival 2000, Castello di Oberdrauburg 01, Accordeon Festival 02 in Vienna ), Switzerland (La canzone donna 02 in Locarno),  India (Jazz Yatra Festival 2000 in Bombay, Delhi, Pune), The United States (Seattle 02 at the EMP Sky Church),  Italy (Cassero Jazz 2000, Pavaglione Estate 01, Vocalia 02, Garda Jazz 03, From Bach to Bartok 03). In the project "Aiò Nenè" she has played alongside musicians such as Gabriele Bombardini, Matteo Scaioli, Cico Cicognani, Simone Zanchini, Enrico Guerzoni, Carlo Cantini, Fabio Tricomi, and Benny Penazzi.What is more, she has also performed some songs from this project with Andrea Parodi (ex singer of Tazenda), Francesco Sotgiu, Gavino Murgia, Salvatore Maiore, Fausto Beccalossi, and Arnaldo Vacca. In 2000 she auto-produced the CD "Aiò Nenè".In 2001 she took part in the show "Cyrano" by the theatre company Teatro del Drago in Ravenna, and went on tour in Italy and Switzerland.She was commissioned by the Europe Jazz Network in Ravenna to work on various original projects for the show "Musica in gioco", alongside Marco Biscarini, Gabriele Bombardini, and Carlo Cialdo Capelli. Another commission is that of the Ravenna Festival '02: with the original project, "Cohors" Luisa has worked with the visual artist Gianluca Beccari, the Percussion Voyagers, and Gabriele Bombardini. In 2003 she participated in the Jazz Joint Ventures Festival of Graz with an original project, alongside Glauco Venier, Achim Tang, Herbert Reisinger, Joao De Bruco and Roderick Van der Straaten.  For the Festival Progetto Jazz'03 she performed, for the first time, her original composition for voice and video-installation "Velocità di fuga" at the Ponchielli Theatro in Cremona, alongside the video-maker Gian Luca Beccari.In the same year, she was commissioned  by the Public Library of Imola to work on a new project, "Voci al di là del mare" (with Fabio Tricomi and videos by Andrea Bernabini).In December she will make her debut in the contemporary opera "La famosa invasione degli orsi in Sicilia" by Marco Biscarini, directed by  Aldo Sisillo.

ENRICO GUERZONI
Musician, cellist, composer, arranger.He graduated in studies on the cello from the Conservatorio di Bologna in 1986. He has been First Cellist in several Italian orchestras, and had also collaborated with numerous instrumental groups such as the "Solisti Veneti", with whom he has played in some of the most prestigious reviews of music in the world. He has also been on tourneé in Japan, China, Korea, India, Germany, Spain, Argentina and obviously Italy, in prestigious places including Teatro Olimpico of Vicenza, Teatro Bellini of Catania, Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. Moreover, he has played with the "Virtuosi Italiani", “Archi Italiani”, “International Chamber Ensemble”, the Orchestra della R.A.I in Rome, “Orchestra da Camera di Bologna”, “Filarmonici di Bologna” and “Solisti di Bologna”, Orchestra Regionale of Marche, and the orchestra “Giovanile Toscanini”.He won the international competition for the position of cellist with the Symphonic Lyric Agency "Teatro Comunale di Bologna" and he collaborated with them from 1988 to 2001. With this orchestra, he went on tournèe in Japan and Germany and has made recordings for the Decca. He has played under the guidance of conductors such as R. Muti, G. Sinopoli, C. Thieleman, V. Delman, R. Chailly, Z. Pezsko, L. Berio, G. Bertini, and D. Oren.He dedicates himself to his freelance work. He is the founder of the eclectic quartet of acoustic and electrical strings "Arké", with whom he has done numerous concerts and performed for the Royal Family in London, along with the tenor Josè Cura, with whom he has performed in concerts in Germany and Japan. From 2000 to 2004 he collaborated with the singer Antonella Ruggiero, building an ethnic and classical repertoire. They made a record together for Sony, a DVD for the EGEA and they have done more than 160 concerts all around Italy and in foreign countries, in prestigious theatres such as the "Regio" of Turin, “Carlo Felice” in Genova, ”Comunale“ in Modena and for musical agencies such as the Santa Cecilia (Terme di Caracalla) and Teatro Massimo in Palermo, for the Pope in the Vatican and Toronto and a tournée in Morocco. What’s more, two years in a row, they performed at the review “I suoni delle Dolomiti”.One of their concerts was integrally broadcast on Channel 4 of national Italian television. In February 2004 he went on tournée with A.S.Q.in Estonia and performed famous concert halls, such as the Puccini theatre in Merano and the jazz festivals of Vignola, as well as recordings with the Indian percussionist Trilok Gurtu. He took part in the Ensemble "Tourte" of Bologna, with whom he has recorded the unpublished quintets for flute by Boccherini and the string quartet for the record label "Dynamic".His repertoire includes the six Bach cello suites, which he has performed in public at the Teatro Consorziale di Budrio (Bo) and at the Medieval museum of Bologna. He has collaborated with Salvatore Sciarrino in various composition courses in "Città di Castello", and for years he played in the finalé concerts for the course in composition for the "Accademia Chigiana” in Siena.In 1992, his jazz-blues group "Petronius Quartet" won the international prize "Città di Ispra", and, in 1994, the competition “Giugno per i giovani” at the Accademia Filarmonica Romana.He has held jazz concerts with artists such as T. Lama, R. Gatto, D. Rea, P. Fresu, S. Zanchini, D. Lynx, L. Cottifogli (who recorded a CD with him, in a duo and in a sextet) F. Del Gaudio, S. Battaglia, G. Mirabassi, E. Fioravanti, M. Negri, R. Rossi, N. Machado, and M. Minardi.Enrico Guerzoni was invited to Paris to play with Pierre Blanchard’s string jazz group and at the "Festival du Cinèma" for the centenarian of the Lumière brothers, performing at the Theatre of the Museè du Louvre . This was organized by the Cinémathèque Francaise,. He has a great passion for the baroque period in particular and done extensive study on baroque technique. He has worked as director and solo artist in various groups (Harmonico Concento, Ensemble Anciuti). He has received lessons in orchestra conduction with the great Lu Jia.He has taken part in the most important recordings of Andrea Bocelli.He has collaborated with some of the most important composers of Italian popular music, such as Eugenio Finardi, Lucio Dalla, Gianni Morandi, Renato Zero, Adriano Celentano, Gino Paoli, Zucchero, E. Ramazzotti, V. Capossela, Tullio de Piscopo, S. Bersani, and D. Silvestri, performing numerous concerts with them and working on various recordings, participating in the arrangements of some of their records.He has arranged and recorded the string section on the records of the singer Mirco Menna, of the group “Parto Nuvole Pesanti” and of the Chilean singer Marcelo Araya.As a composer, he has produced music above all for string quartet, but he has also tried his hand at many other styles, includingPOP, jazz, and ethnic music, with excellent results.He has recorded and made concerts with the avanguarde group of Roberto Cacciapaglia.Moreover, Enrico Guerzoni, as a cellist, has taken part in several programmes on R.A.I. TV.He has taught the cello at the “Scuola di Musica Baroncini” in Imola (Bo) and at a musical high school in Cento.Current projects and collaborations:In 2004 he founded the Kuasar String Kuartet an innovative musical project for string quartet. The K.S.K. collaborates with the Italian jazz project, the project "Plancton", the singer Kelly Joyce and other Italian and foreign artists.He plays in the "Ten Strings" duo with the guitarist Stefano Mirandola, climbing the height of original musical composition and playing the music of E. Gismonti, P. De Lucia, C. Corea among others. They have recently completed their first album: "Ten Strings".He also collaborates with Eugenio Finardi’s group in the show “Il Silenzio e lo Spirito“, and together they have recorded a CD and a DVD for the EDEL, and have performed in various concerts all over Italy.He collaborates with the Mancuso brothers and Giancarlo Parisi in the project “Voci e strumenti da una Sicilia di Tradizione e di Reinvenzione”, working on traditional Sicilian music.He also works with Mirco Menna and Stefano Mirandola in the "Rinato Carosello di musica napoleatana", performing Neapolitan music fromn the Renaissance to the present day.In August 2005 he performed in a concert with Michael Nymann at the Kursall of Merano.

TECHNICAL IT FILES FOR VOCELLANDO DUO
1 chair 1 voice microphone1 Lexicon reverb2 on-stage monitors with separate lines and monitors which can be equalised (alternatively, lines for ear monitors (to be communicated beforehand).4 lines on stage, 2 of which for microphone and 2 for 1.4 Jack.