Chamber
Music
Chamber music is at the heart of my work as a guitarist. I perform in a duo with soprano Maria Eleonora Caminada, clarinetist Sauro Berti, and flutist Federica Lotti, and I am a founding member of Ensemble _Codec, devoted to contemporary music and live electronics. Discover the ensembles and recordings behind a repertoire ranging from the nineteenth century to new music.
_Codec
Ensemble _Codec is an Assisi-based group entirely dedicated to contemporary music. Its members perform highly experimental works, exploring in particular the interaction between acoustic instruments and live electronics. Since 2019, Ensemble _Codec has promoted an extensive production of Audio-Video recordings and organized international calls for scores, aiming to premiere and disseminate works that possess both great musical and intellectual value.
Duo Caminada-De Marchi
Formed in 2018, this ensemble is among the few consistently dedicated to performing avant-garde scores for voice and guitar. Alongside this specific research focus, Maria Eleonora Caminada and Leonardo De Marchi perform major 20th-century song cycles (Lieder) for voice and guitar in concert. Composers such as Giorgio Colombo Taccani and Federico Gardella, among others, have written works specifically for them.
Duo Berti-De Marchi
The clarinet and guitar pairing is an ensemble rarely explored by composers. Sauro Berti and Leonardo De Marchi enjoy the various combinations within the clarinet and guitar families, engaging in a research process that has been ongoing since 2016 and led to the release of an album, Enantiosemie, published by Da Vinci Classics. The duo primarily performs music written from the second half of the 20th century to the present day, featuring a substantial number of premieres.
Duo Lotti-De Marchi
Flutist Federica Lotti and Leonardo De Marchi share a passionate enthusiasm for two seemingly distant areas of the repertoire: on one hand, the poised, warm, and agile nature of Biedermeier literature; on the other, a devotion to musical avant-gardes. Founded in 2024, this duo continuously reflects this ongoing dialectical tension between classicism and modernity in its musical repertoire.
