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Camilla Battaglia

Camilla Battaglia, singer and composer born in 1990, has her musical roots in jazz music with which she grew up musically and which she has expanded over the years towards various contaminations.


In 2010 she released her first record as a vocalist and for the next two years she tested herself in contests as a soloist and as a band leader with satisfaction and devoted herself to live concerts activity.


In 2012 she graduated in philosophy at Università Statale di Milano and immediately enrolled at the Siena Jazz University where she graduated in 2016 in Jazz Vocals with full marks.
That year she begun the itinerant path of the EUJam - European Master Program - thanks to which she studied at the Rhythmic Music Conservatory in Copenhagen, the JIB in Berlin and the Conservatorium Van Amsterdam, graduating in 'contemporary composition and music performance' in 2018 in Copenhagen with a project for large ensemble -ELEkTRA- dedicated to archetypal female figures from ancient history and mythology.

The encounter with different artists and performing realities led her to the creation of two albums as a composer ("Tomorrow" in 2016 and "EMIT" in 2018), collaborating with international artists from Europe and the States (David Binney, Ambrose Akinmusire, Mederic Collignon, Patrice Heral, Kresten Osgood, Mike McCormick, Gianluca Petrella, Stefano Battaglia, Paolo Damiani) and experimenting in very different contexts: from the jazz big band (Orchestra della Sardegna), orchestra (Orchestra ONGTJ from 2015 to 2017); solo performances and multimedia interactions; from the acoustic sound spectrum to the electroacoustic and pure electronic one.

The project for voice and live electronics, Perpetual Possibility, was previewed for the Musicus Concentus Festival in Florence in 2019 and then landed in Berlin thanks to an artistic residency promoted by Scope Berlin that put it in relation with interactive work by light artist Martin Mayer. The collaboration with Mayer was consolidated during another residency in Modena (October 2020), where they worked on a performance for electro-acoustic sextet and light art with music dedicated to the poems of E.E. Cummings.


The solo project has been hosted in many different realities in the city of Berlin (from theaters to art galleries) and in jazz and contemporary music events in Italy.


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Interview

Camilla Battaglia: voce ed elettronica

Read "Camilla Battaglia: voce ed elettronica" reviewed by Libero Farnè


Classe 1990 e figlia d'arte, dal 2010 in poi ha maturato svariate esperienze significative in Italia e in altri paesi, sempre impegnata nella ricerca e nella definizione di un proprio mondo musicale. Stiamo parlando di Camilla Battaglia, cantante, compositrice e leader che i primi stimoli musicali li ha ricevuti in famiglia, dal padre, il pianista Stefano Battaglia, e dalla madre, la cantante Tiziana Ghiglioni, entrambi protagonisti di primo piano nel panorama non solo italiano degli ultimi quarant'anni.

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Radio & Podcasts

Camilla Battaglia, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Ben Wendel, Brad Allen Williams & More

Read "Camilla Battaglia, Mark de Clive-Lowe, Ben Wendel, Brad Allen Williams & More" reviewed by Ludovico Granvassu


Los Angeles and New York are the two poles of this playlist documenting the vibrancy of these two scenes, and their cross-pollination, including through a sample from the iconic Wattstax Benefit Concert, a dive into new releases by Colorfield Records, a jazz look at the Erykah Badu's and Kendrick Lamar's songbook, and the reimagining of Pharoah Sanders' songs. Happy listening! Playlist Ben Allison “Mondo Jazz Theme (feat. Ted Nash & Pyeng Threadgill)" 0:00 Ben Zwerin “Strolling" ...

Album Review

Francesco Orio Trio: OS

Read "OS" reviewed by Vincenzo Roggero


L'ennesimo disco di piano trio, la formula più usata e abusata nel mondo del jazz? La solita clonazione/rivisitazione delle classiche formazioni che hanno fatto la storia della musica afroamericana? Ascoltate OS del trio di Francesco Orio (trentaduenne cremonese, studi classici alle spalle, infatuazione per il jazz, premio internazionale Giorgio Gaslini, studi di elettronica e tecnologia del suono, laurea in biotecnologie, etc., etc.) e avrete modo di sbarazzarvi di dubbi e perplessità. Perchè OS è molto più di ...

Album Review

Camilla Battaglia: EMIT: Rotator Tenet

Read "EMIT: Rotator Tenet" reviewed by Angelo Leonardi


Definire Camilla Battaglia una cantante jazz è riduttivo. Certamente l'espressione vocale è il suo tratto saliente ma solo marginalmente si lega al canto jazz tradizionale, perché trova nel panorama contemporaneo gli elementi per costruire la propria identità. Tra le vocalist con cui troviamo affinità possiamo citare Norma Winstone e, per qualche aspetto, Becca Stevens. Seguendo un percorso intrapreso nel suo debutto discografico Tomorrow-2 More Rows of Tomorrows, la cantante costruisce un concept album dove spoken word e ...

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Music

Recordings: As Leader | As Sideperson

OS

Autoprodotto
2021

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EMIT: Rotator Tenet

Dodicilune Records
2018

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