Petra Haller Double Bill: "Shoulders I Stand On" Release + " Orbit"

1st set: Petra Haller's debut album, Shoulders I Stand On, a unique tapestry composed of rhythmic tap dance and harmonious piano melodies.

2nd set: Petra’s new project Orbit with Alcyona Mick on piano, Kate Shortt on cello, Jeffrey Durrant on spoken word, Petra Haller on tap dance and myself on voice.

Motion Flow is an energetic space for connected creation organised by singer, composer Ellc. Artists from various art forms: music, dance, live art, poetry… get together to interpret a theme set by Ellc. This week theme is: LIBERATION.

Moment's Notice showcases five leading lights in the art of spontaneous composition. Each episode consists of one duo and one trio playing fully-improvised, 40-minute sets. The evening culminates with a combo quintet set. Line-ups are curated by the event creator, George Nelson.

I am thrilled to be part of this incredible line up:

DUO: Matana Roberts and Liam Noble

TRIO: Maddalena Ghezzi, Neville Malcolm, Will Cleasby

Pietro Cavassa and I will be opening for Sculpture band with a set modular synth and voice.

Recreational Grounds is a reaction to the issues of limits and accessibility of the more typical exhibition spaces in London, with an aim to encourage experimentation and create a dialogue around the alternative presentation of artwork. The project encourages ephemeral approaches to react to the restrictions of creating outdoor site-responsive work for the 48 hour exhibition.

I will be part of a music and dance event alongside amazing musicians: Francis Moore (shakuhachi, flute, bagpipes), Kirke Gross (cello), Emily Shapiro (bass clarinet) and dancers: Laura Doehler, Elisa Vassena, Pepa Ubera.

The event takes place in Wendover House ground floor car park, SE17 2UD.

Recreational Grounds VII will be guest curated by Catherine Long, Jesus Crespo and Dido Hallett, who are all currently undertaking the Turps Studio Painting Programme on the Aylesbury Estate. This will be the seventh event to be held at the carpark and will be the first one held there since the pandemic.

Musicking is the verb for engaging in music, and musicking is a lovely evening curated by musician, curator and radio host Francis Moore.

On the night I will present two solo work-in-progress works: Transitions and Trees/Humans and then I’ll join forces with singer, composer and improviser Miryam Solomon for some duos…I am truly looking forward to it. Come along!

£10 / pay what you can (tickets on the door)

Inspired by the work of organisations like Mutual Mentorship for Musicians and the words of Shanta Nurullah at the latest This Is A Movement talk.

I curated a women composers’ recital at The City Academy Hackney in which I teach singing and lead senior choir. This is the first women composer celebration ever hosted in the school and it will include pieces by contemporary jazz artists (many included in the 2022 New Standards: 101 Lead Sheets by Women Composers by Berklee Press), classical composers from the 18th century and hip hop artists from the 2000s. Among them: Shunaji, Tomeka Reid, Little Simz and more…

I will perform a piece by contemporary vocalist-composer Sara Serpa together with the musicians: Liz Jones, Sophie Ali, Hannah Monkhouse, Meghan Marshall and Harriet Crawford.

The event will be held at the school at 16:30.

"Tre corpi di voci in un gioco di echi e risonanze: libere improvvisazioni per tre voci, chitarra, chitarra preparata.

Francesca Naibo, Beatrice Arrigoni e Maddalena Ghezzi si incontrano nel 2022 per sperimentare insieme nell'ambito dell'improvvisazione estemporanea. Attualmente lavorano ad un progetto di musica originale a confine tra improvvisazione e composizione, il cui intento è quello di musicare alcune poesie tratta dalla raccolta "Monologo addosso" della poetessa Elena Cornaggia".

Ingresso 5 € + tessera associativa 10 €

Francesca Naibo (guitar) and I will present Opal at Vortex Jazz Club in London. Our set will be followed by two amazing London based musicians Maria Chiara Argirò (piano) and Bruno Heinen (piano)

Doors 7.45pm, music 8.30pm

RUN, acclaimed London street artist, is welcoming Simone Baron (accordion) and I in his Hackney studio, Bodega Gallery Studio, to paint and play. RUN will live paint a wall of his studio and Simone and I will accompany each strokes.

Music from 8PM

Free event

Known as RUN, Giacomo Bufarini is a London based Italian artist whose works can be seen adorning streets from China to Senegal. RUN is interested in street art as a language of communication. His recognisable style shows a level of detail and complexity rarely seen in street art today, evidenced through his vivid rendering of interlocking bodies in symbolic poses, pattern like, friezes in bright, arresting colours.

Simone Baron is a polyglot pianist, accordionist, improviser and composer whose work “ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” (JazzTimes) engages curiously and charismatically with a broad spectrum of experimental idioms. Educated at Oberlin and Tel Aviv University and joyfully de-educated at festivals and performances across Europe and the Americas, Simone has won grants, fellowships and residencies from Chamber Music America, South Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Hambidge Center, i-Park Foundation, Strathmore Foundation, ArtOMI, UMD, Avaloch Farm, the Banff Centre, and Spectrum Toronto. Simone is a Victoria Artist and plays a Poeta XB Accordion.

I am very excited to play with Simone Baron (accordion) as a featured act at Skronk improv night in London . Simone and I met at Conserere, an improvising lab in Milan. We will present a series of improvised and written pieces inspired by nature and painters.

Music from 8PM

Free event

Simone Baron is a polyglot pianist, accordionist, improviser and composer whose work “ego-less, genre agnostic and without expectations” (JazzTimes) engages curiously and charismatically with a broad spectrum of experimental idioms. Educated at Oberlin and Tel Aviv University and joyfully de-educated at festivals and performances across Europe and the Americas, Simone has won grants, fellowships and residencies from Chamber Music America, South Arts, Maryland State Arts Council, the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities, the Hambidge Center, i-Park Foundation, Strathmore Foundation, ArtOMI, UMD, Avaloch Farm, the Banff Centre, and Spectrum Toronto. Simone is a Victoria Artist and plays a Poeta XB Accordion.

Every month you can find me at the amazing Ariwo Jam together with Ariwo’s members Pouya Ehsaei, Hammadi Rencurrell Valdes, Sam Warner and guests.

This is a great night to spot many amazing London musicians improvising with an Afro -cuban/electronic/dub/jazz/techno feel and to dance!

To know more follow Ariwo on IG. https://www.instagram.com/ariwo.music/

photo by: Jozef Kozmon https://www.instagram.com/spiegelhund_photography/

At Hundred Years Gallery

Maurizio Ravalico - solo congas

Maurizio Ravalico and I - Calcite a Mineral in the making.

Tasos Stamou - solo electronics

19:30 doors

20:00 music

Tickets £7 on the door

For the safety of all musicians and attendees we ask everyone to wear a mask. Thank you!

Maurizio Ravalico is a percussionist, improviser, composer and indefatigable searcher of the sound hidden inside inanimate things. Based in London since 1991, he has toured and recorded with, among others, Jamiroquai, Paul McCartney, James Taylor, Jesus Alemani, Snowboy, Alex Wilson, Dennis Rollins, Greg Osby, Kaidi Tatham, Dego McFarland, Finn Peters, John Edwards, Steve Beresford, Orphy Robinson, Rowland Sutherland, Oren Marshall, Shabaka Hutchings, Andrea Parkins, Dele Sosimi, Tamar Osborn’s Collocutor and the choreographers Lea Anderson, Bill T. Jones, Maja Garcìa, Jane Turner and Laura Simi. His most recent projects area solo percussion album, entitled “Nobody’s Husband, Nobody’s Dad”, and the creation of “The Loud Atlas” a duo piece for one percussionist and one dancer, produced with the Normandy-based company Silenda.

Tasos Stamou is an electroacoustic music composer and performer, alternative electronic music instrument maker, tutor and sound technologist. During a decade of sound performances and recordings, Tasos Stamou has developed a unique style of live electroacoustic music composition. Long and continuous pieces are created in situ using a “portable electroacoustic music studio”. His work explores the space between ancient and contemporary transcendental music, using both traditional and advanced media. His gear consists of acoustic (prepared strings, reeds, recorders, objects) and electronic instruments (self-made electronics, modular synthesizer system and live processed feedback loops). Based on sustained tonal textures and free improvised instrumental solos, his live compositions create a particular and unique atmosphere of ritual noise.

At Hundred Years Gallery Ruth Goller and Maddalena Ghezzi are presenting their work inspired by South Tyrol plateau's, Seiser Alm, where Ruth was born and Maddalena has a deep connection to. Using improvisation and video they are aiming to create a sonic map of the Dolomite paths that they have both walked on many times.

Door 19:00

Music 20:00

£7 on the door

For the safety of all musicians and attendees we ask everyone to wear a mask. Thank you!

Ruth Goller, originally from South-tyrol (IT), is a London based electric and double-bass player, arranger, composer and improviser. Hailed by the Guardian for her “thunderous bass-guitar hooks", Goller helped lay the foundation for the UK’s jazz renaissance whilst playing in many of its most influential and popular bands, from her years on stage with Acoustic Ladyland and Melt Yourself Down, to more recently Let Spin and Vula Viel, whilst performing and recording with the likes of Shabaka Hutchings, Mercury-Award nominee Kit Downes, Sam Amidon, Bojan Z, Marc Ribot, Rokia Traoré, and Paul McCartney. Her recent release Skylla was featured among the 10 best jazz albums of 2021 by the Guardian and among the 100 best 2021 albums by The Quietus. Ruth is endorsed by Orange Amplifiers.

My band FUWAH has been shortlisted to participate to Jam The Future a contest in which seven jazz bands will present original compositions.

“After an online call launched in May 2021 counting over 100 bands and 400 artists, JAZZMI has selected 7 jazz bands that will present their original compositions at Volvo Studio Milano.

On Thursday, September 23rd, a jury composed of guests from the music world, together with the audience both in person and online, will decide the 3 bands finalists that will perform again on September 30 for the final.

The winning jazz band will be given the special opportunity to perform on one of the great stages of JAZZMI 2021.”

The audience will be able to vote online between September 23rd and September 30th.

Book your ticket below for 23rd September.

FUWAH presenterà il secondo album!!!

Free entry

Prenotazioni - 0331.1130431

Durante il 2020/21 la band abbiamo composto il nostro secondo album, ora nelle fasi finali di produzione. L'album è ispirato al continuo oscillare tra una dimensione personale, solitaria e meditativa, e la forza che scaturisce dall'interazione tra individui.

FUWAH è costituita dalla cantante Maddalena Ghezzi, il bassista Luca Pissavini, il sassofonista Filippo Cozzi e il batterista Fabrizio Carriero. 

Il nostro primo album è Eŭropo: sen limoj (Europa senza confini), un album in 8 lingue con testi scritti da 8 donne sul tema Europa. L’album racconta un’immagine dell’Europa contemporanea dal punto di vista di 8 donne in un viaggio umano senza confini. Abbiamo presentato Eŭropo: sen limoj al Southbank Centre di Londra. La traccia Grekio e’ stata trasmessa nello show Prospettive Musicali di Radio Popolare. 

Come and listen to our new album composed during the pandemic and in the process of being recorded.

You can listen to our previous album, Eŭropo: sen limoj, on all platform and below.

Come and listen to our new album composed during the pandemic and in the process of being recorded.

You can listen to our previous album, Eŭropo: sen limoj, on all platform and below.

For 4 weeks I have been meeting weekly with an amazing group of women composers and on July 8th we are sharing the creative work achieved in a 4 week long workshop led by Sara Serpa.

If you are interested in checking it out, drop me an email at: hello@maddalenaghezzi.com

For 8 weeks I have been meeting weekly with this amazing group of musicians and on April 6th we are sharing the creative work we did during this 8 week long workshop led by Sara Serpa.

A snippet of my work below:

At Jamboree we will present a selection of songs from our themed concerts (Women composers in jazz, Songs of Resistance and Looking Up) alongside some original compositions.

Stanza Da Tre on the Islington Gazette.

Maddalena Ghezzi (voice), Ed Blunt (piano), Thodoris Ziarkas (double bass)

I am very excited to be opening Phoenician Blinds’ album launch with a DIY solo set as a sort of DJ. Come down to BBE store in Hackney on Sunday 23rd February from 18:00

Phoenician Blinds - http://phoenicianblinds.net/

An exploration of the love between Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf through the letters they wrote each other and that were collected in the book The letters of Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf edited by Louise De Salvo and Mitchell A. Leaska.

Actors: Maite Jauregui and Imogen Hudson-Clayton

Piano Ed Blunt and voice Maddalena Ghezzi

PROGRAMME OF THE NIGHT: Dinner and Performance
FOR BOOKINGS:
Call Hatch Homerton on: ‭020 8533 5007‬
E-mail: events@hatch-homerton.co.uk

I am excited to announce that I will be playing a Friday Lunch with my band FUWAH at Southbank Centre We will be playing our latest album Eŭropo: sen limoj and some snippets of our new album in the making. This is a FREE event.