Ensemble Creativo dell'Emilia-Romagna

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The Ensemble Creativo dell'Emilia Romagna (ex Orchestra Creativa dell'Emilia-Romagna) is a project created in 2021 with the aim of inviting international musicians to direct it, encouraged to write and organize original music specially designed for the ensemble.
It's an ensemble made up of musicians active internationally, coming from different parts of Italy and resident in the region Emilia-Romagna and which produces an original repertoire.
As in several orchestras of this type, there will be a rotation of musical direction every 3 years to have different perspectives in the field of creative music, improvised and avant-garde music.
Fabrizio Puglisi was the musical director in 2021-2023, while Tobia Bondesan - who already collaborated with Akamu as musical director and arrangements of the jazz opera Windward Passages by pianist and composer Dave Burrell and libretto by swedish poet Monika Larsson - is the new director for 2024-2026 radically changing the direction, the musicians involved, the aims, which are to bring out the different communities of musicians living in the Region.
Despite the development and experimentation of new languages, the Ensemble Creativo dell'Emilia-Romagna cannot ignore the encounter with other non-Western cultures, not to pursue an unlikely undifferentiated melting-pot but to create moments and contexts of meeting and exchange that respect differences and peculiar specificities.

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"Tribute to Butch Morris" (starts at 25'25") conducted by Wayne Horvitz - live at Ferrara Jazz Club 18-3-2022

Live at Ferrara Jazz Club (starts at 20'30") - 20-2-2022

"Meets Gunter Baby Sommer" - live at Teatro Tenda, Modena 18-12-2021

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Pagina Emilia-Romagna Cultura

• projects realized in the years 2021-2023 •

In the first 3 years (2021-23) - under the musical direction of Fabrizio Puglisi - OCER realized 7 original projects with Valeria Sturba, Vincenzo Vasi, Olivia Bignardi, Achille Succi, Tobia Bondesan, Edoardo Marraffa, Francesco Guerri, Fabrizio Puglisi, Filippo Cassanelli, Andrea Grillini that were the core of the Orchestra.
Several special guests partecipated in these projects as Gunter "Baby" Sommer; Wayne Horvitz (as conductor e composer) who has often conducted and written for big ensembles made a Tribute to Lawrence "Butch" Morris (with whom he often collaborated) that represented the posthumous realization of a project that Morris himself would have liked to carry out in Bologna before his untimely death: the creation of a stable Orchestra with which to develop his particular conduction technique for large ensembles over time and with special guests such Robin Holcomb, Steph Richards, Gabriele Mitelli, Silvia Bolognesi, Camilla Battaglia; Ernst Reijseger, Rosa Brunello; Dudu Kouaté, Kalifa Konè, Bifalo; Marty Ehrlich with his amazing "Tribute to Julius Hemphill"; Reda Zine, Melaku Belay, Dimitri Grechi Espinoza and many others.