SOCIAL GATHERING: MUSIC, DRINKS and FOOD
An evening of Mediterranean music as an anticipation of the session on Cultural Heritage
Monday 23 October from 19:00
Complex of Sant’Antoniello a Port’Alba, University of Naples Federico II, Piazza Bellini 56
The Social Gathering will be hosted by the University of Naples Federico II in the Complex of “Sant’Antoniello a Port’Alba” that is located in what may be considered the intellectual meeting point of the old city, namely Piazza Bellini, where the remains of the V-IV century BC city walls show how our history is embedded in our present.
Lively ancient streets lead from the Workshop venue to Piazza Bellini in a walk of about 15 minutes, inevitably made longer by curiosity. One of these streets is the ancient “Decumanus”, now part of “Spaccanapoli”, which is a long narrow street that splits (“spacca”) Naples into two.
The rich musical menu will be served by:
M’Barka Ben Taleb (voice, Italy and Tunisia) with Arcangelo Michele Caso (cello), Raffaele Vitiello (bass and guitar), Gianluca Mercurio (percussion)
Laurent Felipe, Douro Generation (trumpet, Portugal)
Marco Sannini (trumpet, Italy)
Loredana Simioli (voice, Italy) with Marco Piscopo (guitar)
“Kennst du das Land, wo die Zitronen blühn” (Do you know the land where the lemons blossom?) wrote Wolfgang Goethe at the end of the 18th Century, inspired by his Mediterranean journey in Italy. So, Alfonso and Livia Iaccarino offer a taste of lemon for the end of the dinner from their famous “Don Alfonso 1890” at Sant’Agata dei due Golfi.
Open to registered participants. Collect the ticket at the registration desk at the conference venue.
Bio sketches
M’Barka Ben Taleb is an Italo-Tunisian singer, resident in Naples for years, has been called the Maghrebian lioness by the press. She sings in Arabic, French and Neapolitan mixing the sounds of all melodies. Every day her voice is on the air on channel Rai 1 thanks to the theme song of “Onda Blu”. She has cooperated with international musicians and has also taken part in four movies (“La stanza dello scirocco” with Giancarlo Giannini, “Toto’ Sapore” with the Bennato Brothers, “Passione” with John Turturro, “Gigolò per caso”-Fading Gigolò” with Woody Allen, Sharon Stone, Vanessa
Paradis and Turturro), as well as in the short by Fernando Maddaloni “Vedi Napoli e poi non muori” which won the Humaniter prize.
Laurent Felipe. Trumpeter, composer, producer.Currently residing in Lisbon, Portugal, Laurent works with the following groups of which he is the author: “Duo Iberia” (with Spanish pianist Pedro Sarmiento), “Tribute to Chet Baker”, ” The Song Band”, “Mingus and More Sextet”, “Flick Music” (film soundtracks) and the “Swing City Orchestra”, dedicated to the swing music of the 30’s and 40’s. Laurent maintains a regular activity as composer, producer, lecturer, arranger and instrumentalist in Portugal and abroad. Between 2010-13 he was general director of Musiberia International Centre of Music and Dances of the Iberian World, in Serpa www.musiberia.com.pt
Marco Sannini teaches Jazz Composition, Arranging and History of Jazz at the Conservatory S. Pietro a Majella in Napoli. Graduated in: Trumpet at the Conservatory of Music in Italy, Commercial Arranging at the Berklee College of Music in Boston,Ma,U.S.A. and Jazz Music at the Conservatory of Music in Italy. Since 1980 is active as Jazz soloist, composer and arranger performing and writing for several recording production and festivals Such as: Roccella Jonica, Pescara Jazz, Stratosphera (New York), Jazz Rallye (Bruxelles), La Batie (Ginevra), Brechtforum (New York), Rhino Jazz Festival (Lione) etc. Since 1994 cooperates with Roberto de Simone, soloist and composer in: Li Turchi Viaggiano, Da Dioniso ad Apollo, La Gatta Cenerentola, Festa da Requiem etc. Since 1989 has been leader of ensembles performing and recording his own original music. He produced several Works : Donna Regina (2005 with Norma Winstone), Il Genio tra i Laceroni (2006 with Licia Maglietta), Notte nella Rabata (2007 with Peppe Barra) Poetango (2008 with J.Girotto) Yoruba (2009 with G.Mirabassi) He is Director of the Jazz Festival : I Cortili del Jazz at Capodimonte Museum and, currently, he is Chairman of the Jazz Department at the Conservatory S. Pietro a Majella in Napoli.
Loredana Simioli. She acts since she was 14 years old, mainly in traditional neapolitan comedies (by Eduardo Scarpetta or Eduardo De Filippo). She then worked as stand-up comedian for the Italian television. She also appeared in Matteo Garrone’s movie “Reality”. She is a talented versatile artist that is now bound to music , in particular traditional Neapolitan songs.
