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"richiamare is an attempt to build a bridge toward the past, a connection between absence and precariousness as a vivid action of the present. J.S. Bach's French Suite No. 3 is a piece that accompanied me for many years during my growth and training as a musician. It forced me to confront the difficulties of the instrument, the need for dedication and the striving toward a state of higher awareness. Many years later, that same piece resonates in my memory in a different way. It has created a space all its own, in which musical invention and memory contaminate each other and fuse into a single sonic image. If this piece has stayed inside me for so long, it is because I have never listened to it again except in my mind, where over time it has rusted, like an object fallen into the sea. Playing it today is like trying to bring that city submerged by the waters back to the surface. richiamare is an improvisation based on the memory of J.S. Bach's French Suite No. 3."
Carlo Sampaolesi (*1997, IT) is an accordionist and performer based in Brussels. His interest in sound and in its relationship with space and time has led him to deepen the timbral and spectral research of his instrument, undertaking a series of collaborations and commissions with composers such as Francesca Verunelli, Stefano Gervasoni, Dmitri Kourliandski, Gavin Bryars, Giulia Lorusso, Maurizio Azzan, Carlo Elia Praderio, Mattia Clera and many others.
He has collaborated with leading ensembles and orchestras such as the Neue Vocalsolisten, mdi ensemble, FontanaMIX Ensemble, Opificio Sonoro, the Orchestra of the Teatro "La Fenice" in Venice, Eutopia Ensemble, Dedalus Ensemble and others, also working with artists such as Claron McFadden, Lucy Railton, Jessie Cox, Catherine Lamb and others.
He is also active as organizer and artistic director of PNE.UMA - Contemporary Accordion Festival.
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