Comizi d'amore is a violin and cello performance that took place as part of the Altolivenza Festival on the occasion of the 100th birthday of the Italian director, poet and writer Pier Paolo Pasolini (2022). The source of inspiration for this performance is the 1964 documentary film of the same name "Comizi d'amore".

Two people in a confined space. They meet for the first time, get to know each other and react to each other's unpredictable impulses and different points of view. What do we expect when we get to know another person? What is worth loving or hating? Do we take these things a little too seriously?

Composed impro-piece for the opening of Almudena Tapia’s exhibition “TIERRAS NEGRAS: Flores de Valdenoceda” in La Neomudéjar de Atocha (Madrid).

Valdenoceda is a small village in Burgos (North of Spain), known for one abandoned building. Initially this was a silk factory over the river Ebro, but from 1938 to 1943 it became a prison that was active during the end of the civil war and the beginning of the cruel dictatorship of Francisco Franco.

Some musicians couldn‘t live without their precious musical companion, and most of them feel overly protected by them when they perform on stage. In a way, an instrument can be the only shelter where a musician feels safe. Without it, they are naked. Or worse, at danger.

Violin recital with pieces by Jennifer Walshe, Lisa Streich, Rebecca Saunders, Adriana Hölszky and Liza Lim.

“Words are sung, murmured, silenced, danced, pressured, stamped, and, of course, played.“

The works of Lorca, Kafka, Beckett and Zorn are filled with surrealism, subversion, humor, fight and irony — concepts that are translated in a masterful way by their musical counterparts: Francis Poulenc, Gyorgy Kurtág, Luke Martin and Fritz Voegelin.

“Anche il più piccolo dei felini, il gatto, è un capolavoro” – Leonardo da Vinci.

String quartet performance for the Altolivenza Festival 2019 (Pordenone, Italy). Music by Adriana Hölzksy, John Cage, Lisa Streich, Bryan Ferneyhough, Salvatore Sciarrino, György Kurtág, Jennifer Walshe, Anton Webern, Igor Stravinsky.