Curriculum Vitae
Course Programme
Music from the body
Musical emporium
Video
Has been working for 25 years in the field of music education for Kindergarten und Primary School, both in public and in private schools. Didactic Director for the children music activities (age from 4 to 13) at the Scuola Popolare di Musica Donna Olimpia in Rome. Has beeen teaching in the National Orff-Schulwerk Courses for 15 years, in further education courses organized by the municipality in Rome and in the Orff courses organized in Mikkeli and Orivesi (Finnland). Carried out performances and reviews for young people and didactic activities in some high schools in collaboration with the Auditorium Parco della Musica - Rome. Collaborates with the «Roma Tre» University in Rome on the Master in Science of Education. Is charter member of the OSI – Orff-Schulwerk Italiano. Published over 150 articles about sound and music education on the review “La Vita Scolastica” (edited by Giunti, Florence). Published “Altro che musica” and “Animali”, pieces and didactic activities for Kindergarten und Primary School children (edited by OSI/MKT, Brescia) and “Musica dal corpo”, body percussion didactic purposes and models (edited by Rugginenti, Milan). Founder of the performance-group “BodySband”, that creates shows and concert-lessons employing body percussion as well as music with objects.
Languages: Italian, English
Discovering the body as a sound object as well as when standing still as when in movement. From sound gestures to body percussion sequences. From the superimposition of rhythmic sequences to the building of pieces with voice, instruments and body percussion. Body percussion to play rock, blues and minimal music. From body percussion to graphic score. Body percussion as basis for a performance. How to stimulate the discovery of the body as an educational way to start elaborating and drawing up musical projects that can evolve in different directions according to working contexts.
The everyday object looses its pristine function and becomes a resonant object, a choreographic object, a scenographic object. The common object to explore sound; the common object as a propaedeutic mean to musical instruments; the common object as a self-sufficient musical instrument. The object as a building element of three-dimensional scores. The object accompanying songs or playing on playback music. The object, together with musical instruments, as a building element of a mimic-musical performance. How to stimulate the use of the body and of the objects as means to elaborate and draw up music-didactic projects that can be developed according to anyone’s working context.
