Eugenia Marini is one of the most esteemed classical accordionists at an international level. After graduating in violoncello and gaining wide artistic experience in the Angelicum Chamber Orchestra in Milan, she has dedicated her time to the development and enhancement of the classsical accordion, the instrument with which she started her musical education. She has won prestigious international competitions and has given many concerts as a soloist, in a duo and in a sextet, generally performing music from the Baroque and 1900 repertoires, always obtaining great success with both critics and public.

She has performed as soloist with many important chamber and symphonic orchestras. She has recorded twice for EMI CLASSICS and has recorded the musica of Astor Piazzola for PAGANI RECORDS.

She took part, with the singer Milva and the Pavia and Veneto Chamber Orchestra, in a tour of the most important Italian and German concert halls performing a repertoire entirely dedicated to Piazzolla on the accordion and on the concertina receiving excellent reviews.

She is behind an intense cultural campaign to promote the concert accordion, giving courses and international concerts and collaborating with music magazines. For these activities, in 1992, she received the "Carlino D'Oro" a prize offered by the municipality of Castelfidardo Ancona).

She has held master classes and published teaching manuals for the classical accordion.

Eugenia Marini, who has a 'cellist background, has dedicated herself completely to the accordion because, as she herself has said "only with the accordion can I manage to wholly express my sented in this CD (from Baroque to contemporary, between tradition and modernity) is the highest witness, not only of the expressive capacity reached by this no longer neglected instrument, but also of the extraordinary reading and inventive of the performer who interprets teh peculliarity of the instrumentis tibre, melancholic musicality (in this, it is not far from the "saudade" of the portughese fado), without sentimenalism of fallings into languor or too much affection.

Eugenia Marini is one of its most admired performers. In the Piazzola "Cadensa£ a solistic introduction of arpeggios opens to a variation in the form of a traditioanl musical cadence rewritten in a highly personalised original way. The admirable rhythm in crescendo of the "Milonga" is a homage to the tango, in this case more to listen to than to dance. The driving sicopated rhythm is interposed with the melody which undergoies continuous advances and delays until it returns king and rejoins the full bass. The paradigmatic piece"Like a Water-Buffalo" by the contemporary Japanese composer Takahashi, on the theme of a fable poem by Wendy Poosard, is an example of the expressive ductility of the accordion.

The brilliant timbric melody produces the sensation of a sung tale, of a song with a central repeated theme, a leit-motif like an obsessive "singsong" whichsweetens into the conclusion. The song "Kalina Krasnaja" is full of winning sentiment, a mixture of secret nostalgia which gradually reaches full consciousness. In the last piece, the extraordinary skill of Eugenia Marini on the convertina evidences the comletely "mediterranean" sound of the Troilo composition "Sur". The listener feels the modulations of an instrument capable of awakening "local color" which far from being folkloristic and exterior inveigles him like the image of a lost love on whom, in vain, he mediates, remembering what once was.

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