Duo Nuages

Duo Nuages: The Duo Nuages was born in 2010 on the occasion of the contemporary Music Exibition “Suoni Inauditi” held by “Pietro Mascagni” High Musical Formation Institute.

The two pianists, after an intense artistic background and a series of recitals, both as soloists and in chamber ensembles, decided to share their experience and musical expression, thanks also to the common taste for an eclectic and experimental research.
Through the elaboration of compositions for piano duet, the Duo tackles a vast repertoire that ranges from Mozart to Piazzolla, passing through the big romantic and the less famous twentieth-century's authors.
The Duo dedicated also to the study of the repertory for forte-piano and plays on the branded table forte-piano: “John Broadwood & Sons/Makers to his Majesty...Great Pultney Street … London” of 1825.
One of the peculiarities of the Duo is to execute performances where music combines with other languages such as dance, recitations and other graphic-visive expressions.
The Nuages Duo aroused the interest of some italian composers who dedicated them some pieces, paraphrases and projects tied to contemporary musical research: Stefano Nanni, Giacomo Riggi, Diego Valente, Roberto Ghilarducci, Fabio De Sanctis De Benedictis, Claudio Vaira.
The Duo Nuages held numerous recitals for prestigious associations and concert season in Italy.
On the occasion of “Concerti della Domenica 2012” at Pietro Mascagni Institute, during the review's opening recital, dedicated to Darius Milhaud, the Duo played “Le boeuf sur le toit”, before the composer's son, who is a famous contemporary painter that expressed his own enthusiasm towards the two pianists.
The Duo recorded the CD “Ritmi dal Sud America”
(PPG Editions, 2016) and the CD “Finchè non sarà mattina” (Map Classic, 2017).
The name “Nuages” is inspired to the first of the “Three Nocturnes” of Claude Debussy who wrote the following introductive note to this orchestral work: “Nuages” shows the sky's unchanged appearance and the slow, impressive clouds' motion, disappearing in shaded grey tones, lightly tinged with white.
The choice of the name has a dual reason: the two pianists' common love towards the great composer Claude Debussy's music and the Duo's expressive affinity to clouds' ineffable essence and continuous becoming.