MASTERCLASS OF FANFARA AND ORCHESTRA BALKAN
 

Crossroads of peoples and cultures, in the Balkans resides an extremely rich and varied musical tradition, almost completely ignored in Italy.With the Trento project Balkan plays! an opportunity is offered to all those who want to get in touch and have direct experience with this musicthrough collective workshops where practice and oral transmission are the first two ingredients.

The workshops are aimed atprovide participants with the necessary tools to travel independently in the musical world of the Near Eastand acquire the skills to become members of an ensemble inspired by traditional Eastern European ensembles, from the “trubaci” fanfare to the “lautari” orchestras, up to the “panigiri” groups, the endless nights of music in the summer of the Aegean islands.

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The groups work on the construction of a collective repertoire of traditional music from the Balkans, Romania, Turkey, Greece, Asia Minor and the Middle East.Thetechnical and aesthetic issuesspecifications necessary for understanding the music in question. Between these:  styles and territorial diversity;rhythms, repertoire and dances;ornamentation and articulation;specific instrumental techniques;encounter between the European tone and the Middle Eastern modality;notions of the Ottoman makam (modes) system;improvisation in the aesthetics of taksim; intonation and microtonality.

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THE TEACHER: FEDERICO PASCUCCI

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FEDERICO PASCUCCI is a musician who for years has devoted himself to the study of traditional Eastern European and Asian Minor music. He lived the experience of jazz musicthrough an intense activity of studies and concerts in Europe, living permanently in the cities of Lisbon, Amsterdam and Rome. During his career he trained at the Testaccio Music School (Rome), the Frosinone Conservatory, the Siena Jazz Foundation and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam with numerous teachers (Kurt Rosenwinkel, Eric Harland, George Garzone, Jim Snidero , Jeff Ballard from the USA, as well as Italian masters such as Pierluigi Quarta, Maurizio Giammarco, Enrico Rava, Paolo Fresu and Gianluigi Trovesi).

His artistic work includes detailed research into the musical styles of the Balkans and Asia Minorwhich leads him to collaboration with Macedonian Gypsy orchestras (Kocani Orkestar and Sercuk Orkestar), with the Bulgarian accordionist Martin Lubenov and the creation of musical projects such as Errichetta Underground (Italy), Tugoslavic Orkestar (Portugal) and FPEast Trio (Italy / Bulgaria). Since 2006, his rich concert activity has led him to travel to the stages of international festivals and clubs with projects such as European Saxophone Ensemble (Belgium, EU), Agios Lavrentios Brass Band by Hayden Chisholm (Greece, Germany), Errichetta Underground (Italy), Malson , Kumpania Algazarra, Nelson Cascais Decateto (Portugal), WAS (Portugal, France), Animatronic Leviathan (Holland, Germany), Storytellers (Italy). In 2010 he won the "Critics Prize" in the official competition of the Italian conservatories "Premio delle Arti". In 2011 the film "The dark side of the sun" by CSHintermann for which he worked as a composer won the prize for the best soundtrack at the Sulmona Film Festival. Since 2011 he has been the organizer of the Errichetta Festival, one of the most important events for traditional Eastern music in Italy.

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VIDEO

Federico Pascucci East Trio/Jazz and Balkan traditional music

Kočani Orkestar/Live at Khamoro Festival World Roma Festival

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