THE DELEGATION OF EMILIA-ROMAGNA AT JAZZAHEAD! 2025

AngelicA – Festival Internazionale di Musica | i dischi di angelica – Bologna (festival, label)

Delegate: Andrea Sbaragli

Andrea, who has been active in the music business since the 1980s, founded A Buzz Supreme in 2008 and is active in music promotion and publishing.
AngelicA is an international festival of contemporary music that aims to represent every form of musical research that moves in unconventional spheres, and that freely uses the multiple materials offered by different musical traditions. Born in 1991, in its 35-year history it has hosted more than 1000 concerts and artists including: La Monte Young & Marian Zazeela, Karlheinz Stockhausen, Ornette Coleman, Cecil Taylor, Heiner Goebbels, Mike Patton (his Mondo Cane project was produced by Angelica in 2007 and has since been performed all over the world), Terry Riley, John Zorn, Rhys Chatham, Charlemagne Palestine, Otomo Yoshihide, Roscoe Mitchell and Anthony Braxton.
The venues that have hosted the festival, in Bologna and other cities in the Emilia-Romagna region, include theatres, cinemas, museums, historical buildings, churches, sanctuaries, city squares and railway stations.
In 2011 AngelicA also became a Centre for Musical Research and since then its venue has been the Teatro San Leonardo complex in Bologna.
i dischi di angelica is the record label founded alongside AngelicA with the intention of producing the sound anthologies of each of its editions, but which immediately broadened its perspectives towards a wider production. A small global catalogue in the sea of music and the international market, with the most diverse expressions inside: a combination of art and craftsmanship. To date, the catalogue, edited by Massimo Simonini, counts some sixty titles and includes special projects specially created for the label by the likes of: Antony Braxton, Toshinori Kondo, Terry Riley, Stefano Scodanibbio, Fred Frith, Gianni Gebbia, Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell, Peter Brotzmann, Pauline Oliveiros, Wadada Le Smith, John Tilbury, Giovanna Marini and many others.

→ Spotify playlist of i dischi di angelica

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Greta Campri – Ravenna (booking agent)
Greta Campri is an Italian booking agent, driven by a deep passion for music and its ability to convey emotions instantly.
With a background in Fine Arts and personal research in traditional dances, ranging from West Africa to Flamenco and Cuban Rumba, she collaborates with various international artists from countries such as Spain, France, Mali, and others.
She promotes music projects that remain rooted in folk traditions, while rising from them to create a truly original sound.
She contributes to the dissemination of music that fosters cultural connection and stimulates personal reflection. Each proposal is designed to have a lasting and positive impact, transforming every concert into an enriching and stimulating experience, deeply engaging the audience in a meaningful way.

→ All the artists on the roster

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Francesco Cavestri (jazz pianist)
Francesco Cavestri (born in 2003), a 20-year-old native of Bologna, is a jazz pianist, composer, and educator (honored in the Top Jazz as the youngest new talent of 2023) with three albums to his name, the latest one being “IKI – Bellezza Ispiratrice” which features collaborations with, among others, renowned Italian trumpeter Paolo Fresu. After graduating in Jazz Piano from the Conservatory of Bologna, Cavestri pursued studies in the USA at the Berklee College of Music in Boston, where he earned two scholarships (including one at the New School in New York). It was there that he immersed himself in the New York music scene, performing at venues such as Fat Cat and Smalls Jazz Club.
He won the Strada del Jazz 2023 award, presenting a concert titled “Early 17 between jazz and hip hop: the musical legacy of Bill Evans” in Piazza Maggiore, Bologna, as part of the celebration. He also secured a prominent position in the Top Jazz rankings as the youngest among the new talents of 2023, a list published annually by Musica Jazz.
In 2024 he opened the tour of his latest album “IKI – Bellezza Ispiratrice”, with a sold out at the Blue Note in Milan, and then continued with other events around the peninsula.
In 2025 Francesco Cavestri released the single “Entropia”, made in collaboration with Willie Peyote, one of the most established figures in the Italian hip hop/singer-songwriter scene.

→ YouTube | Spotify

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International Music and Arts, Dipartimento Internazionale – Carpi (booking)
Delegate: Elena Del Rio
Since 12 years, Elena Del Rio works in the International Department of International Music and Arts.
International Music and Arts was founded in 1988 by a few friends, all classical musicians. It now has 5 departments: classical music, dance, theatre, local artists, export/international artists.
In the international department, Elena works with all classical and non classical institutions all over Europe and the world, covering every segment of the music business: jazz clubs and festivals, rock presenters, electronic festivals, public institutions and classical opera houses and orchestras.
They collaborated, and they still are, with some of the most significant artists of our time, such as: Lou Reed, Patti Smith, Philip Glass, Diamanda Galas, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laurie Anderson, Ornette Coleman, David Byrne, Anohni (fka Antony and the Johnsons), Joan as Policewoman, Elvis Costello, Joe Jackson, Kronos Quartet, Philip Glass Ensemble and many others.
Since 2019, Elena teaches students about music export and internationalization at Centro Musica in Modena (class → Inside Live: Performing & Media Arts).

→ All the artists on the roster (contemporary music)

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HackOut! (jazz trio)
Delegates: Riccardo Cocetti e Luca Zennaro
HackOut! is a bass-less trio project founded in 2019 at the Conservatory of Rovigo, Italy.
The aims of the trio is to highlight the personality of each musicians by seeking the balance between harmonic structures and radical improvisation, acoustic and electric timbres.
Between 2021 and 2023 the trio released two albums: “Cedrus Libani” in 2021 and “Sad Music for Happy Elevators” in 2023. They had two different European tours (playing in France, Germany, Belgium, Norway, Spain, Netherlands and Italy).
Following their artistic residence in Paris facilitated by the Italian Institute of Culture, they released a new album in 2021. At the end of this residency at the IIC in Paris, they performed with the internationally renowned pianist Jacky Terrasson.
Throughout the month of February 2024 they were hosted by the Italian Cultural Institute in Madrid to work on their third album, “Cortado”, released by Caligola Records in October 2024. With this album, on their long tour of Asia, they mesmerized the club and theatre audience, reaching their peak with an unforgettable performance at the Blue note in Beijing.

→ YouTube | Spotify

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