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Emanuele Porrelli, known professionally as Went, is a singer-songwriter, singer, pianist and singing teacher with extensive artistic experience and training.

His musical training began at the Don L. Milani Music High School, where he specialised in Classical Piano. He later graduated in Jazz Singing at the Nino Rota Conservatory in Monopoli, developing his technical and stylistic skills.

Wanting to broaden his musical horizons, Emanuele moved to London, where he spent two years experimenting artistically and developing his own sound and songwriting identity. The experience enriched his musical approach, bringing together different influences and strengthening his interpretative skills.

After returning to Italy, Emanuele settled in Milan and continued his studies at the Milan Conservatory, graduating in Pop-Rock Singing with top marks. In March 2024 he released "Idealizzami", his first EP with Needa Records , distributed by Altafonte Italia.

Today Emanuele combines his work as a singer-songwriter with teaching, guiding students as they discover and develop their voice and musical identity.

Born in 1996, Matteo Piazzi began studying piano, singing and music theory as a child, later exploring harmony, polyphony and music history. He earned his qualification in theory and solfège at the Riva del Garda Conservatory with a score of 9.5/10, followed by diplomas in singing and music teaching techniques from the N.A.M. Academy, both with top marks.

He later completed a master’s degree in music communication at Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore in Milan. His thesis, supervised by Gianni Sibilla of Rockol, was titled "Musica Classica Contemporanea come Musica Pop"..

His training also includes masterclasses with Faso, Paola Folli, Andrea Rodini, Carlo Fava and Giuseppe Anastasi, as well as seminars with Cristiano Godano, Omar Pedrini, Diodato and Nek.

In 2010 he appeared on RaiUno’s “Ti Lascio una Canzone” and also featured on the programme’s official compilation released by Warner Music.

His experience with keyboards and synthesisers later led to several projects, including the Mina tribute “Minanthology” and “DejaVu (quartet)”, with whom he opened concerts for Alberto Radius and Formula 3.

He has performed at venues and events including Alcatraz Milano and the summer programme at Villa d’Este in Cernobbio, sharing the stage with artists including Paola Zigoi, Samantha Jorio, Max Corfini, Gatto Panceri and Franco Fasano.

Since 2020 he has worked with independent Hi Funk Records as an arranger, keyboard player and backing vocalist, collaborating with Paola Folli and Francesco Rapaccioli both in the studio and live.

He has taught piano, pop keyboards and modern singing in Milan and Pavia since 2018. Since 2023 he has also performed as a pianist and singer with LarioEventiat events around Lake Como.

Singer-songwriter, singer and singing teacher Sarah Vampiro has always been driven by a deep passion for music. She began her artistic training at a young age, spending ten years at a musical theatre school where she developed the foundations of her vocal and stage skills.

At 18 she joined Milano Music Lab & Records, studying modern singing with Ilenya Smedile and piano with Matteo Piazzi. At the same time she began developing her own music, writing and releasing original songs. She also started assisting Ilenya during lessons, deepening her experience in singing education.

To further develop her technique and skills, she continued her training with VES, Vocal Education System, studying vocal anatomy, ear training, vocal technique and interpretation.

Sarah’s teaching combines technical knowledge, artistic sensitivity and close attention to each student’s individual journey, helping them discover their voice with awareness, creativity and authenticity.

Alessandro Catenazzo is a guitarist, sound engineer, composer and arranger with extensive training and professional experience.

He graduated in Guitar Contemporary Style from CPM, Centro Professione Musica in Milan, and has studied with leading Italian guitarists including Luca Colombo, Michele Quaini, Marco Mariani, Luca Ballabio, Pietro La Pietra, Tony De Gruttola and Luca Mantovanelli.

He has attended numerous Guitar Clinics, receiving certificates of excellence from internationally recognised artists including Robben Ford, Guthrie Govan, Stef Burns, Ciro Manna and Osvaldo Lo Iacono.

Alessandro is also a qualified music teacher. He completed the certification programme at YAMAHA MUSIC EUROPE in Gerno di Lesmo and is qualified to teach according to the Trinity College London method.

As a musician, he has worked with Italian artists including Mal, Enrico Musiani, Tony Arca, Sabrina Borghetti, Alban Emiri, Gaetano Conti and Calende, and has appeared on numerous television and radio programmes.

His experience also extends to music production and sound design, which he studied at "Roma Sound Design".

Today Alessandro performs with several musical projects and teaches guitar, theory and harmony at Flam Music Studio di Milano and Milano Music Lab & Records di Cesano Boscone (MI).

Sassofonista, arrangiatore e docente, Paolo Favini vanta una lunga carriera professionale che attraversa il jazz, la musica pop, il teatro musicale e la televisione, affiancando all'attività concertistica un'intensa produzione discografica e didattica.

Nel corso degli anni collabora con numerosi artisti italiani e internazionali, tra cui Liza Minnelli, Amii Stewart, Keisha Jackson, Roberto Vecchioni, Claudio Baglioni, Nina Zilli, Dirotta su Cuba, Nomadi, Stadio e Michele Zarrillo. Partecipa inoltre a importanti festival jazz in Italia e all'estero, consolidando un percorso artistico caratterizzato dalla versatilità stilistica e da una profonda conoscenza del linguaggio musicale.

La sua esperienza si estende al mondo televisivo, con partecipazioni a programmi quali Festival di Sanremo, Raffaella Carrà Show, Radio Italia Live, Premiatissima e Risatissima. Dal 2006 è sassofonista tenore solista nella Silvano Belfiore Band, formazione che accompagna i programmi televisivi di Maurizio Crozza.

In ambito teatrale prende parte a importanti produzioni e tournée italiane, tra cui Saturday Night Fever, Lady D., A Chorus Line, Per fortuna c'è la musica and Gran Galà del Musical.

Accanto all'attività di strumentista sviluppa un percorso come arrangiatore e compositore. Nel 1992, con il quartetto di sassofoni Four Fires, realizza arrangiamenti e produzioni che spaziano dal jazz alla musica leggera.

La sua discografia comprende progetti dedicati a grandi autori e interpreti della musica internazionale. In In the Time Forever, omaggio a Duke Ellington, collabora con il sassofonista americano Bob Mintzer, mentre nel progetto Tribute Gerry Mulligan ospita il sassofonista Dario Cecchini.

Nel 2016 realizza con la Evolution Band l'album Queen: A Funky Tribute, reinterpretando il repertorio dei Queen in chiave funky con la partecipazione di Eric Marienthal and Bob Bonisolo.

Collabora inoltre con il sassofonista americano Chris Collins, con cui realizza A Christmas Story, e con la big band internazionale di Dani Felber.

Negli anni più recenti prosegue la propria attività discografica e di arrangiamento, dedicando progetti alla musica di Leonard Bernstein (2023), dei Beatles (2024) e di Ennio Morricone (2025). Cura inoltre gli arrangiamenti dei concerti Morricone Night realizzati a Salò e a Villa Litta.

All'attività artistica affianca da tempo quella didattica. È stato docente di strumento e arrangiamento e successivamente di musica d'insieme presso il Conservatorio Gaetano Donizetti di Bergamo.

È autore di pubblicazioni dedicate alla didattica e alla musica per ensemble di sassofoni, tra cui Fiati in Sezione, realizzato con Dario Cecchini, Paolo Favini Sax Ensemble e la collana The Blues Sax.

Cantante, performer e insegnante di canto, Federica Cavicchioli si forma presso MTS – Musical! The School, dove consegue il diploma nell'anno accademico 2018/2019. Nel 2019 ottiene inoltre l'ALCM in Music Theatre Performance e la certificazione LCM Grade 5 in Music Popular Theory presso la University of West London.

Approfondisce la didattica del canto attraverso lo studio del metodo VMS con Loretta Martinez, sviluppando una preparazione che unisce tecnica vocale, interpretazione e performance.

Nel corso della sua attività artistica prende parte a diverse produzioni teatrali e musical. Interpreta il ruolo di Catherine in Pippin e partecipa a Hair – 50° anniversario, oltre a esibirsi come voce solista nel progetto Monday Gospel. Durante gli allestimenti di Hair and Pippin lavora inoltre come assistente ai cori, consolidando la propria esperienza nell'ambito della vocalità d'insieme.

Parallelamente all'attività sul palcoscenico, si dedica all'insegnamento del canto pop e musical, della propedeutica musicale e alla conduzione di laboratori teatrali e musicali. Collabora con diverse realtà formative, tra cui Ricordi Music School, Musical Farm e Scuola di Musica MC, dove ricopre il ruolo di insegnante e responsabile del canto pop e musical.

La sua esperienza didattica comprende anche laboratori di musical rivolti a persone con disabilità, realizzati presso RSD Villa Maggi e in collaborazione con l'associazione Chi Può Dirlo?. Si occupa inoltre di direzione corale per adulti e bambini.

Nicola Marotta is a singer-songwriter, songwriter and producer.

From 2015 to 2021, under an exclusive publishing agreement with Warner Chappell Music Italiana, he wrote songs for artists including Francesco Renga (“A meno di te”, 2016), Marco Masini (“La vita comincia”, 2017), Noemi (“Un giorno eccezionale”, 2018), Einar (“Parole nuove”, Sanremo 2019), Leonardo Lamacchia (“Il Natale e l’Estate”, Amici 2021), Arianna Gianfelici (“L’amore davvero”, Amici 2021).

Between 2021 and 2022 he produced and co-wrote every track onMarsali’s EP (“Bouganville, including "Booking, featured in Spotify editorial playlists Scuola Indie and Equal Italia, and "Bouquet" , a semifinalist at Musicultura 2023.

Since 2022 he has developed his own project, NiCOLA MAROTTA. His debut single "Anni90” was featured in Spotify’s Scuola Indie and Indie Italia editorial playlists.

The following September he released his first EP as an artist, "La notte degli Oscar" , distributed by Artist First and premiered live at Arci Bellezza in Milan.

Alongside his artistic work, he teaches songwriting and created the Masterclass “Psicologia di una canzone: scrittura consapevole per ascoltatori distratti”.

Saxophonist, composer and art director from the Aeolian Islands, born in Lipari in 1991, he worked for years he worked with C. Travia and G. Taviani as a musician and soundtrack producer for film and television, including Paolo and Vittorio Taviani’s Cesare Deve Morire , winner of the Golden Bear at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival. The film, which also won seven David di Donatello awards, features his compositions and arrangements.

He has created arrangements and compositions for films and television series including Boris 4, Volevo fare la rockstar, Made In Italy by Luca Lucini, Una questione privata by Paolo Taviani and others.

As a saxophonist he has performed with leading names in the Italian music scene. He has also worked on the production and artistic direction of major events, including Il Sogno Del Nataleat Milan’s San Siro racecourse in 2019.

In 2021 he foundedEolie Music Fest, where he also served as artistic director alongside Samuel Romano of Subsonica.

He works regularly as a producer and songwriter with prominent artists from the Italian pop scene. He also supports emerging Milano Music Records artists in developing and producing original music projects.

Maurizio Dosi was born in Milan on 14 December 1972.

He began studying fisarmonica at the age of seven with Jimmy BonettaHe later graduated in theory, solfège and harmony at the Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria, before specialising with Umberto Fusco and Ettore Righello and earning his accordion diploma at the Piccolo Conservatorio di Milano.

In the 1990s he graduated as an actor from theAccademia Teatrale , training with Nicoletta Ramorino and Narcisa Bonati of Milan’s Piccolo Teatro. He also specialised inmime with Gianni Magni, performer and founder of the theatre quartet I Gufi.

He is a composer and writer for theatre and pop music, and has worked as an accordionist and actor with singers from the 1960s, particularly Gianni Pettenati. He has also performed in major European theatres, especially in Milan, from the Piccolo Teatro to Teatro Franco Parenti.

He teaches accordion, theatre and stage performance at several schools in and around Milan, including Nel centro della musica, Centro Teatro Attivo, Accademia della voce, Music Center Academy and The Basement Music School.

His work ranges from musical productions to classical theatre, including works by Goldoni, Molière, Pirandello and Ionesco. He has performed both dramatic and comic roles and worked with major figures from theatre and cinema including Piero Mazzarella, Anna Nogara, Rosalina Neri, Valentina Cortese, Gianni Magni and Ugo Pagliai..

As a musician, he has also collaborated with international record labels on music collections across dance, folk and pop.