Artist
Sara Calvanelli
Biography
Sara Calvanelli is an accordionist, singer and composer whose work connects traditional song, experimental music and free improvisation with writing for theatre, dance and moving images. Based in Tuscany, she has performed in more than ten countries and collaborated with artists across musical traditions.
She graduated from the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan, combining accordion studies with piano, composition and singing. Her research explores the interaction between voice and accordion, bringing together archaic and contemporary sounds through live electronics and bellows instruments of different periods and origins. Her recordings have appeared on Losen Records, Amadeus Arte and Da Vinci Classics; collaborators include Giovanni Sollima, Riccardo Muti and Orchestra Cherubini, and Compagnia Finzi Pasca.