Guitare Actuelle

Guitare Actuelle is an association led by a collective of musicians dedicated to promoting music as a living, ever-evolving language.

Founded in 2010 by Dora Filippone — guitarist, researcher, and longtime professor at various Italian Conservatories, as well as a festival organizer — the association brings together a team of artists and scholars united by an interdisciplinary approach to music.
Based in Turin (Italy) and collaborating with various cultural and academic institutions, Guitare Actuelle fosters a dialogue between music, science, and other fields of knowledge, maintaining a constant balance between tradition and innovation. Within this framework, the association’s research spans pedagogical experimentation and musicological study, aiming to devise new ways of creating and interpreting artistic performance.
This commitment to research and dialogue has fostered international artistic collaborations over the years. This album brings together the work of eight international musicians from diverse backgrounds, primarily based in Turin (IT) and Bern (CH). Their collaboration reflects a desire to create a network of connections where the resulting musical language is the product of diverse artistic voices and experiences: Matteo Appendino, Marta Cellini, Elisa Giordano, and Daniele Ligios, whose training combines studies at the “Giuseppe Verdi” Conservatory in Turin with their experience in Guitare Actuelle; Marcin Domagała and Dominyka Šeibok, who developed their paths at the Hochschule der Künste Bern; and Arturo Mariotti and Marcello Massari, who share experience gained across these different realities.