DUO CONFLUENCE
About us
We are Michelangelo Ghedin and Teresa Gasparini
We started playing together during our studies at the B. Marcello Conservatoire of music in Venice, Italy and at the beginning of 2022 we officially founded Duo Confluence. Believing from the start that our unusual collaboration could work, we managed to convince the sceptical audience by creating a balance between the saxophone and the guitar, two instruments rarely seen together.
We are currently attending the Master of chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Dance (CNSMD) of Lyon, France.
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After some concerts in the Venetian territory, in May 2022 we won the first prize at the chamber music competition “Città di Belluno”. We performed in the summer concerts “Il Marcello Suona” in Venice and we had the pleasure of collaborating with the association “Musica Con le Ali” and “Teatro La Fenice”. In April 2023 we were awarded with the first prize in the International Competition “Giovani Musicisti - Città di Treviso” and the "contemporary prize" in the CIMCA of Arnuero, Spain.
MICHELANGELO GHEDIN
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Michelangelo Ghedin, a musician from Treviso, Italy, in 2019 got his bachelor degree with full marks and honours at the conservatory Benedetto Marcello in Venice with Maestro Marco Vanni.
In 2021 he completed his master degree with full marks and honours at the conservatory G. Frescobaldi in Ferrara under the guidance of Maestro Marco Gerboni.
He is currently studying with Jean-Denis Michat at the Conservatoire a Rayonnement Regional de Lyon, where he is a member of the saxophone ensemble “Artisanat Furieux”.
He participated in numerous masterclasses with important saxophone players, such as Federico Mondelci, Nicolas Arsenijevic, Nikita Zimin, Philippe Portjoie, Naomi Sullivan and Massimo Mazzoni. He also attended summer courses in Spilimbergo and Corciano and has participated in the XXII International Saxophone Stage of Fermo.
From 2017 to 2019 he performed with the ensemble “In continuum” and as a soloist for the association A.Gi.Mus. in some of the most prestigious locations in Venice, such as Ateneo Veneto, Palazzo Grassi, Ca’ Sagredo and Palazzo Ducale, in addition to other solo performances in the theatres of Feltre and Asiago.
On 9 March 2017, after an audition, he was chosen to perform as a soloist on the stage of the Teatro Malibran, accompanied by the orchestra of the theatre “La Fenice”, in Venice.
He was awarded with two overall first prizes at the “Diapason D’Oro” and “Musica Insieme” competitions in Pordenone and in Musile di Piave.
TERESA GASPARINI
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Teresa Gasparini started studying guitar at 8 years old and then she continued her studies at the conservatory B. Marcello of Venice where she obtained the bachelor degree with full marks and honours in 2020. In the same conservatory in 2022 she got the master degree in classical guitar with full marks.
In 2020 she won the "Giovanni Rohr" scholarship in Venice.
From 2013 to 2019 she took part in the ensemble "Viaggiatori Armonici" where she had the opportunity of recording two albums and collaborating with international folk artists such as Andy Irvine, Arup Kanti Das and Fernando Deghi.
She participated in masterclasses with professors such as Elena Casoli, Heiki Maï tlik and Chisato Yamamoto and in 2018 she attended a workshop at
"Fondazione Cini" in Venice: Flute and Guitar in Twentieth-Century Music.
Since 2019 she has collaborated with the theatre company "Centro Teatrale
Lorenzo da Ponte'' of Vittorio Veneto in their productions.