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ENZA PAGLIARA

...Among the most representative voices of “pizzica” and Apulia traditions...

Italian singer and songwriter in traditional music from Salento, the southeasternmost part of Italy, leads her voice beyond the natural-born social and family environment where she directly heard and spontaneously learned the real traditional sound.

For over 15 years, Enza Pagliara has spread her sound throughout stages in the world, singing with intimate pride Salento traditions and culture consisting of serenades, legends, epic-lyrical chants, and improvised dialogues in the form of stornelli and saint’s invocations for healing.

Moreover, in the last two decades, she has been one of the leading actors in Salento and Apulia musical tradition revaluations. Her action consists of evoking remembrance in memory keepers and pleasing learning disciples.

Musical traditions survive through ages only if lyrics and instruments renew, taking care in keeping the main features that make peculiar sources and extractions.

"Bona Crianza" project

This is the “Bona Crianza” (good manners) project's aim for musical tradition renewing: melting instruments of ‘banda’, brass band for classical and melodrama repertoire characteristic of Italian southern regions mainly in the Apulian area, and other instruments coming from the entire world played by local righteous musicians.

“Bona Crianza” is a major step in Enza Pagliara's life and artistic path shared from the beginning with accordionist and composer Antongiulio Galeandro, Redi Hasa, and Gianluca Longo - mandolist – from early records.

Line up:

ENZA PAGLIARA: voice, tamburello (Italian frame drums)

Guests:

- ALESSIO ANZIVINO: tuba bass

- ANTONGIULIO GALEANDRO: accordion

- CLAUDIA DE VENTURA: voice, tamburello (Italian frame drums)

- GIANLUCA LONGO: mandola, guitars

- GIORGIO DISTANTE: trumpet

- MARIO GRASSI: tapan, percussions

- REDI HASA: cello

MUSICAL PROJECTS: DIRECTION AND PLANNING

“Ensemble de Turchellis” (2008)

– Festival Eco-culturale Valiò (Interreg 2008) Artist Director

"Canto di Passione. Christ’s passion chants in Italian Tradition (2005)"

– Traditional repertoire research with C. Grimaz, A. Galeandro, and G. Longo

“Matinata (2004)” Special project in musical tradition for banda.

Director and arranger Antongiulio Galeandro with Banda Messapica

“Canti di Mare (2003)” ethno-musical research

with A. Galeandro and G. Longo

“Incantamentum. Il Canto e l’Incanto, il Miracolo del Sonno (2004)”

with A. Galeandro and G. Longo

“Voci di finis terrae. Canti e in-canti delle donne salentine” (2010)

ESSENTIAL DISCOGRAPHY

PUGLIA SOUNDS CD compilation “Malachianta”

(with E.U. support ‘Asse IV, Regione Puglia, Teatro Pubblico Pugliese, Viaggiare in Puglia’)

Notte della Taranta, 2010,

with Ensemble Notte della Taranta, Ludovico Einaudi

Frunte de Luna, (ed. 2008 with A. Galeandro, R. Hasa, G. Longo, G. Spedicato, A. La Volpe)

– ed. 2009 Ristampa - ed. Anima Mundi

Donna de Coppe, (with A. Galeandro, G. Longo) 2002, ristampa nel 2006,

annexed to WORLD MUSIC review

Notte della Taranta, 2004, with Ensemble Notte della Taranta, Stewart Copeland

Sta Manera, Assurd, 2009, Ed. Terraemoto

Fate, Assurd, 2003

Intrasatta Assurd, 2002

Ondas, Cantigas de amigo, Martin Codax, 2001, with Ensemble Calixtinus

Opillopillopi Opillopillopà with Aramirè, 1999.

Festival LA NOTTE DELLA TARANTA

“Orchestra popolare Notte della Taranta”

Ed. 2004-2005-2006 Arr. Ambrogio Sparagna - Guest F. Battiato, G. Nannini, F. Di Giacomo

“La Notte della Taranta” Ethical music festival

• -Ed. 2011 Arranger Ludovico Einaudi – Assistant Mauro Durante

• -Ed. 2010 Arranger Ludovico Einaudi – Assistant Mauro Durante

• -Ed. 2003 -Arranger. Stewart Copeland and Vittorio Cosma

• -Ed. 2002 -Arranger Vittorio Cosma – Guest Noa and Zohar Fresco

"Pizzica Sinfonica" Ensemble Notte della Taranta

1.1. Ed. 2001 Maestro Arr. Piero Milesi with Orch. Sinf. Tito Schipa

FESTIVALS and REVIEWS

Barbican Centre – London June 2011

Festival Oriente Occidente – Rovereto 2011

Primo Maggio Roma concert, Piazza San Giovanni, (1 May 2004, Rome, Italy – Live on RAI TV)

Maurizio Costanzo Show (Rome, June 2002)

Roma Auditorium (Parco della musica) (October 2002, and 29 June 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2010) La Palma Club (Rome, December 2002);

XXIIèmes Rencontres de Chants Polyphoniques de Calvi (Corsica 2010)

Teatro Bolshoi Moscow (November 2003), Teatro Mussorski, Saint Petersburg (November 2003), Teatro Esplanade Singapore (2005), Festival di Bregenz (Austria, 25-26 April 2003) Biennial of Zagreb (March 2003) Europarque (Porto, Portugal, November 2002) Teatru Liceu di Barcellona (Spain, September 2002) - Gulbenkian Theater, Lisbon (Porto Portugal November 2002) Voix D'Europe (Switzerland, September 2002) - Estivoce - (Pigna, Corsica, July 2002) Temporada de musica e danza - (Lisbon, March 2002) with Gulbenkian Ballet. Festivoce - (Pigna, Corsica, July 2001) - Festival Saint-Denis - (Paris, France, March 2001) - Festival ambulant - Chants des mondes - (France, Lyon, July 2000) - Vocalia - Festival of Mediterranean Polyphonies - (France, Nice, July 2000) - VIII Festival De Chants et De Musiques de Noël - (France, St. Dalmas, December 1999) XI Rencontres de Chants Polyphoniques de Calvi (Corsica Sept. '99) - with M. Colasurdo Rassegna di Goerlitz - (Germany, Saxony, May 1998) - Festival of Sami - (Greece, Kefalonia Island, August 1997) -

Carpino Folk Festival - (Carpino (FG), August 1998 and 2004) - Vis Musicae. Mediterranean Music International review – Catanzaro, Italy July 2002

Notte della Taranta with Symphonic Orchestra Tito Schipa M.stro Arranger Piero Milesi - (Melpignano, Lecce, Italy August 2001 and Lecce, Teatro Politeama, April 2002) Notte della Taranta (Melpignano, LE, August 2002)

Lezioni di tarantella - (Naples, December 1997) Donne del Mediterraneo - (Lecce, July 1997)

Venice Carnival, ETTNIC (Venice, February 1997), Scuola di Musica Popolare di Testaccio - (Rome, February 1997, Musica per un mondo senza confini - (Bologna August 1998). with Uccio Aloisi and G. Avvantaggiato singers.

Festival Internazionale di Palau, Isole che parlano (Palau, Sardinia August 1999) Regie Culturali del Caos Incontri intern. di cultura attiva e antropologia teatrale (2000)

5° Festival Internazionale di Valdagno, Etno e World Music (August 2000) Chjant pai tiej deits (Udine, August 2001)
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