Isabella Fabbri
Music as a path to unity
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Duo ff
Isabella Fabbri, saxophone
Davide Finotti, piano
Duo ff (Duo Fortissimo) unites Isabella Fabbri (saxophone) and Davide Finotti (piano), two soloists from Ferrara with a shared passion for the musical avant-gardes of the 20th century and contemporary music. Graduates with top honours in chamber music at the G. Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara, where they received the Irina Chinelli Scholarship, they later refined their studies with Pier Narciso Masi at the A. Corelli Music Academy in Fusignano. As a duo, they won First Prize at the Nuovi Orizzonti Competition in Arezzo.
Building on this background, the duo conceived SENZA (Italian for “without”), a visual concert created in collaboration with visual researcher Francesca Occhi. The project invites the audience to explore Minimalism, both as an artistic language and as a philosophy of life, through a dialogue between sound and image.
Works by contemporary composers such as Reich, Glass, Nyman, Sakamoto, Adams, Fitkin, and Pärt, performed live by Duo ff, are mirrored in Francesca Occhi’s video creations, projected onto a transparent screen that merges with the performance itself. The audience is immersed in a minimalist space where music and image overlap and interact.
Structured in seven chapters: Energy, Essence, Repetition, Structure, Absence, Balance, and Lightness, SENZA is a tribute to simplicity, a meditation on what remains when the superfluous is stripped away. It reflects on Minimalism as both an aesthetic and existential approach, building a bridge between art and life.