Soqquadro Italiano is a music group created in 2011 by Claudio Borgianni and Vincenzo Capezzuto, internationally regarded as one of the most innovative expressions of the European Classical Crossover scene (the word “Soqquadro” means: turmoil, to put everything up-side down). Its musical repertoire ranges from ancient music, to jazz, pop and electronic music. Soqquadro Italiano has held concerts in Belgium, Italy, Holland, Russia, Germany, Spain, Ecuador and it has produced these Cds: “Numero Zero – Qdisc”, “Numero Uno – Live”, “Numero Due – Schubert”. “The Soqquadro Italiano Days” are another unique initiative of the group: a music festival to experiment new ways of enjoying live music through unusual opportunities for meetings and sharings between audience and artists integrated with musical and touristic experiences.
Music is a migrant art that by its nature needs to go beyond its borders, to be enriched by something different, to transmigrate, to emigrate, to create twinning and to meet new cultures.
The musical program of Soqquadro Italiano starts from this concept to explore different musical repertoires: from Sephardi to Argentinian music, from the traditional Italian to the Mediterranean basin music with its ancient and popular Baroque repertoire rich in sound interweaves and rhythms borrowed from different cultures.
Concert for clarinet, percussions, guitar, double bass
Vincenzo Capezzuto, voice
Music by Fabrizio De Andrè, Carlos Guastavino, Santiago de Murcia, Frank Martin, Claudio Monteverdi, Domenico Modugno, Claudio Borgianni, traditional Greek, Sephardi, Corsa and Apulian music
Claudio Borgianni, concept and artistic direction
A fascinating and funny dialogue between the ensemble ("soloist" of the show) and the string orchestra, an intersection between "ancient" and "modern", early music instruments and music instruments of our time. La Stravaganza is a refined game of musical fusion through which Soqquadro Italiano presents us a completely new, unexpected, bizarre Vivaldi. The video projections of images by Italian cities like Mantua, Venice, Ferrara, Rome, Florence, Urbino, Turin, Naples, Bologna and Milan will accompany this amazing music journey.
Concert for sax, clarinet, dan moi, harpsichord, toy piano, percussions, double bass and string orchestra
Vincenzo Capezzuto, voice
Music by Antonio Vivaldi
Claudio Borgianni, concept and artistic direction
Stabat Mater is a show where music, singing and dance come together to define a sort of “Opera Totale”. Claudio Borgianni rewrites a totally new Vivaldi, giving the possibility to Vincenzo Capezzuto to pass, with extreme ease, from singing to dance to a small moments of acting, making sure that the audience loses the horizon of the boundaries between the various genres of the performing arts. Important contribution to this project is given by Mauro Bigonzetti who fits harmoniously in this work, being able to give life to a theatrical and heavily contaminated dance.
Concert for soprano saxophone, bass clarinet, melodica, archlute (or harpsichord), percussions, toy-piano, double bass, live electronics
Vincenzo Capezzuto, voice and dance
Mauro Bigonzetti, choreography
Music by Antonio Vivaldi and Anonymous XII century (elaborated by Claudio Borgianni)
Claudio Borgianni, dramaturgy and direction