Angelo Sorato

Angelo Sorato, bansuri flute, multi-instrumentalist. Graduated with honors from the Conservatory of Vicenza with Lorenzo Squillari, disciple of Ustād Ali Akbar Khan. Specializes with masters such as Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, Vivek Sonar, Pandit Ritwik Sanyal, Gundecha Brothers, Amelia Cuni, Gianni Ricchizzi, and with Gabrio Taglietti and Tiziano Manca for Western classical music. Specializing in the use of bansuri in Indian classical and semi-classical music contexts, jazz and Western classical, he also accompanies kathak and bharatanatyam dance. He participates in concerts, performances, recordings, and events related to the culture of the Indian subcontinent, collaborating with Fabio Lazzarin (tabla), and offering a repertoire of Indian classical instrumental music. He has collaborated with Riccardo Misto, Alan Bedin, Cristina Antonini, Airway, Marianna Biadene, Rosella Fanelli, Andrea Ferigo, Clarence Swapan Gomes, Maurizio Murdocca, Noirêve, Nuria Sala Grau, Patrizia Saterini, Giuseppe and Nicola Sorato, Lorenzo Squillari, and Stokha Krishna Das. He is a member of the group Mishra Indo Jazz, which blends Indian music, jazz and folk tradition. He also collaborates with the group “Un Sorriso Infinitamente Affascinante” and Alan Bedin’s “Vīra.” He has taught bansuri flute flute at SMAV in Venice, in the free bansuri course at the Conservatory of Vicenza, and is currently a bansuri flute teacher at the “Hanuman” school in Venice and Vicenza.

Fabio Lazzarin

Fabio Lazzarin (Venice,1961) Tabla, Drums, Percussion, Santoor He began in ’76 the study of percussion,since 1984 he has been studying Tabla (in Indian classical music) with Sankha Chatterjje (University of Calcutta).
He is involved in improvised and composed music in various areas.Flamenco with guitarist Anna Garano,.In ’93/94 he is part of “Terra Incognita” with Prem Joshua, since ’94 he is part of “Wordream” with Federico Laterza, in ”98 he collaborates with Aldo Tagliapietra (Le Orme).He works on “live broadcasts” and recordings for RAI-RADIOUNO, RAI-RADIOTRE, R.T.S.I. (Radiotelevisione svizzera italiana) RADIO VATICANA, TV KOPER- CAPODISTRIA.For contemporary dance works at “academy Isola Danza” ( La Biennale di Venezia ) with Carolyn Carlson, J.C. Parè, Dominique Mercy, Henry Smith and others, (’99-2000).In North Indian classical music he gives seminars in universities, conservatories and public schools.He plays among others with Mangala Tiwari, Santosh Kumar Mishra, Gianni Ricchizzi, Mark Dickowski, Edward Powell, Mrs.Reba Som, Francesca Cassio, Satyendra Dev Sharma, Samjit Dasgupta, R.Narayan Goswami, Saira Begum.Collaborates with theater director Giuseppe Emiliani Componeed and performed live music for “Indian Nocturnes” (2003) and “Clytemnestra for a Night” (2004) (prod.Teatro Fondamenta Nuove-Venice).He collaborates on soundtracks for cinema, with maestro Bruno Zambrini (2003) and with maestro Luis Bacalov (2005-2006).
Among the various recent collaborations “Shabda” trio with Riccardo Misto e Angelo Sorato.