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Maddalena Ghezzi

Hailing from Milan, Italy, Maddalena Ghezzi is a London-based singer, composer, improviser and educator. Passionate and curious about using her voice in creative ways, she has been working in the field of jazz, improvised and experimental music since moving to the UK in 2009. Her work draws inspiration from the natural world, literature, visual arts and the socio-political status of our world.

As a leader she has released two EPs, Amethyst and Halite, part of her series Minerals, and one album, Eŭropo:sen limoj (Europe With No Borders), with her band FUWAH.

Her work was played at BBC Radio 3 (Freeness), Radio Popolare (Prospettive Musicali), Soho Radio (Tamar Osbourn), Pure Jazz Radio and Jazz Is NYC (Chris Hodgkins) and in June 2021 it was included in Cutting Edge Jazz and Jazz Today Spotify playlists. Ghezzi was featured in Womxn Of Music Business online platform and her work with her trio Stanza Da Tre has been covered by the The Islington Gazette.

As a collaborator, her most recent collaborations are call and responses (Andrew Page), Parasang 8 (Pouya Ehsaei/Manana Records) and Animal Choir (Robbie Judkins).

With her projects Maddalena performed at Milan Jazz Festival, at the Southbank Centre and was selected among 400 artists for Jam the Future (Milan Jazz Festival’s contest 2021).

Maddalena studied jazz singing with Brigitte Beraha and is currently deepening her research in singing, Libero Canto, improv and composition with Sara Serpa. To broaden her understanding of the voice she have attended workshops in Mongolian throat singing (Michael Orminston and Candida Valentino), Yiddish and Russian songs (Polina Shepherd), Maquam music (Louai Alhenawi) and others.

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