Collaborations

Our quartet was born from the desire to give voice to a shared artistic sensibility, cultivated over time through a deep bond, both personal and musical.

The founders of Orpheus’s Accordion Quartet are Luigi Gordano, Giuseppe Bozzo, Fausto Credidio, and Eugenio De Rose. We all studied with the same teacher and grew up together, sharing the most significant moments of our musical development side by side. This shared experience has allowed us to develop a unique understanding that today represents the strength and identity of our project.

The ensemble’s goal is to establish itself as a cohesive and distinctive musical entity, capable of exploring and expressing the full potential of the accordion in an original, refined, and engaging way. Our ever-evolving repertoire ranges from classical music to contemporary works, featuring arrangements and interpretations designed to highlight the instrument’s versatility and reflect our artistic identity.

Orpheus’s Accordion Quartet is, above all, the result of a genuine friendship, expressed through music that is vibrant, heartfelt, and shared. Each concert is an opportunity for us to tell our story, convey emotions, and share with our audience the joy and passion of making music together.

The Trio Choré was founded by violinist Alessandro Acri, saxophonist Marina Notaro, and accordionist Luigi Gordano. Active on both national and international stages, the three musicians are united by a deep friendship and a shared artistic vision.

The project is built around the idea of dance as the driving force of sound and as a bridge between classical music and popular tradition. The name Chore derives from the ancient Greek word choros, meaning both “dance” and “chorus,” evoking movement, rhythm, and collective energy.

Distinctive for its unconventional instrumentation—violin, saxophone, and accordion—the trio explores a wide range of timbral possibilities. Transcriptions and creative adaptations are an essential part of the ensemble’s musical language, with each work carefully reimagined to reveal new expressive dimensions while preserving its original character.

The repertoire features emblematic twentieth-century composers whose music is infused with powerful, energetic dance elements, including Prokofiev, Stravinsky, Khachaturian, and Bartók. The programme also reaches across the Atlantic to the Mexican composer Arturo Márquez, whose music combines rhythmic vitality with a rich interplay of cultural influences.

A central part of the programme is an original composition by Vincenzo Saraco, written specifically for the Chore Trio. The work draws inspiration from the ancestral rhythms of Calabria and Sicily, the musicians’ homelands, blending folk traditions with contemporary musical language to create a vibrant and compelling balance between heritage and innovation.

The Chore Trio is a space for musical exploration and encounter—a meeting point between body and sound, memory and invention, notation and gesture. Through its distinctive sound and artistic vision, the ensemble celebrates dance as the very breath of music, transforming rhythm into a shared experience that connects performers, traditions, and audiences.