Marco Ferrari

Marco Ferrari, multi-instrumentalist, clarinetist and flutist, has taught improvisation since 2004, at the HEMGE Haute Ecole de Musique de Genève; for 40 years he has been involved in an intense concert activity in the field of ancient and ethnic music.

From 1980 he began his international concert activity with the Ensemble Alia Musica of Milan; since 1985 he has been regularly invited by the most important European music festivals of Northern Europe, Holland, Belgium, France, Germany and England; as an instrumentalist specialized in ethnic and ancient music, he took part in the creation of POP music CDs with Italian artists such as Lucio Dalla, Mia Martini, Aleandro Baldi, Angelo Branduardi; in the same period he collaborated with several groups of Middle Eastern music, coming from Egypt, Greece and Lebanon, as a nay player; in 1989 he founded and directs the ancient music group Sine Nomine-Acantus, with whom he made several tours in the most important European festivals; in 2003 he founded Salon de Musiques, an ensemble at the crossroads of different musical genres; he has toured throughout the United States and South America, playing in New York, Los Angeles (Getty Museum), San Francisco, Chicago, Washington (National Gallery), Seattle, Saint Louis and many other major cities; published in September 2018 in the form of Suites for the String Quartet for the Ut Orpheus publishing house, a series of seven booklets on traditional urban music in central Europe.