"My Seikilós, I imagined him in taverns, in open-air markets, listening to the radio in a taxi, drenched in sweat and nostalgia"

The concert (a solo Piano performance) is based on a selection of pieces from various ancient musical traditions, united by their geographic origin, the Mediterranean area, and by the fact that I was fortunate enough to be able to hear their performance in the countries where they were conceived, being impressed and fascinated by them. "The transcriptions I have made, on which the concert programme is based, are therefore contaminated both by the memory I have of these performances and by my own artistic sensibility."

The aim is not to propose a concert/tribute to the various styles tackled (Rebetiko, Mandira, Neapolitan Song, Andalusian Traditional Music and Jewish Songs, to name but a few), but to highlight how they are contaminated and interconnected, proposing to the listener a musical experience that will lead him to lose ‘geographical’ reference points and appreciate the common Mediterranean matrix that characterises these only apparently distant musics.

Here are a couple of pieces that are included in the concert programme:

The concert lasts about an hour and a quarter, but can also be adapted for two 45-minute sets; it is preferable to have an acoustic piano, if it is an ‘antique’ piano, even better.

Thank you for your attention, if you have any ideas, proposals or suggestions, please email me at mattiacolombimusic@gmai.com