Francesca Cassio and Ugo Bonessi

Monday, November 9, 2009

Genre: Indian and Western Classical

Country: Italy

Francesca Cassio is a singer, and scholar, trained in Western and Indian vocal music.Lecturer of Indian Music at the Conservatory of Vicenza, and Lecturer of Ethnomusicology at the University of Trento (Italy). Disciple of the dhrupad singers Amelia Cuni and the Padmabhushan Ustad Rahim Fahimuddin Dagar, for several years she has also been studying the romantic genre of thumri under the precious guide of Padmabhushan Smt. Girija Devi.

Composer of music and lyrics, she won national awards in this field. Among her collaborations: Talvin Singh, Robert Miles, Luis Bacalov, Nicola Piovani, Taffetas, Eddi Powell, Paolo Vivaldi, Susanna Tamaro, Roberto Laneri.

Pianist - Ugo Bonessi

Ugo Bonessi is a piano artist who has performed as soloist, in duo piano performances and with orchestra. His performance mainly involves Russian music, contemporary music and voice-piano duo. He has even organized and performed in several festivals of Russian music sponsored by the Soviet Embassy.  He has studied classical singing traditions of dhrupad and khayal. His playing radiates lightness by his delicate touch and harmony and by the well balanced equilibrium between left and right hand.

He is a frequent traveler to India and will be performing in Mood Indigo this year along with Francesca Cassio

--written by Archana Das

Web Link : http://www.francescacassio.com/

Date:24th December 2009 
Venue: Mood Indigo '09, IIT Bombay Campus

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