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Petra Magoni began singing in a treble voice chorus and later and for many years, she has been experiencing various kinds of music in vocal groups.
She studied singing at the Conservatory of Leghorn and at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Milan, specializing in ancient music with Alan Curtis.
Over the years, she attended seminars held by Bobby McFerrin, Sheila Jordan (improvvisation), Tran Quan Hay (armonic and diphonic singing), King’s Singers (vocal ensemble).
After practising ancient and opera music in the company of Teatro Verdi of Pisa, she came to the rock music with the pisan group Senza...
Ferruccio Busoni (April 1, 1866 – July 27, 1924) was an Italian composer, pianist, music teacher and conductor.
The majority of Busoni's works are for the piano. Busoni's music is typically contrapuntally complex, with several melodic lines unwinding at once. Although his music is never entirely atonal in the Schoenbergian sense, his later works are often in indeterminate key. In the program notes for the premiere of his Sonatina seconda of 1912, Busoni calls the work senza tonalità (without tonality). Johann Sebastian Bach and Franz Liszt are often identified as key influences, though some of his music has a neo-classical...
Ferruccio Tagliavini (Reggio Emilia, 14 August 1913 - Reggio Emilia, 29 January 1995) was an Italian operatic tenor mainly active in the 1940s and 1950s. Tagliavini was hailed as the heir apparent to Tito Schipa and Beniamino Gigli in the lyric-opera repertory due to the exceptional beauty of his voice, but he did not sustain his great early promise across the full span of his career.
Tagliavini studied in Parma with Branducci and in Florence with Amedeo Bassi, a well-known dramatic tenor of the pre-World War I era. It was also in Florence that he made his professional debut in...
