Silvia Tarozzi
Violinist

Known for her interpretations of avant-garde compositions and nuanced improvisations, Silvia Tarozzi is a renowned Italian violinist, vocalist and composer. Earlier works, such as her collaboration with Pauline Oliveros on the Virgin Violin album or her contemporary reinterpretations of Northern Italian female folk songs with Deborah Walker, offered more austere, textural explorations of the violin as an instrument for non-classical polyphony, microtonality and noise. Collaboration with Éliane Radigue plunged her into the minimalism of pure acoustic drones. Her debut album of songs "Mi specchio e rifletto" (Unseen Worlds records) was released in 2020. It received positive reviews from Pitchfork, The Quietus, The Wire, Artforum NY. In 2022, she composed and performed with Cassandra Miller "Bismillah meets the Creator in Springtime", a piece for two soloists and the BBC Scottish Orchestra. The twenty-year collaboration with cellist Deborah Walker has led to numerous creative projects with composers Philip Corner, Pascale Criton, Éliane Radigue, Tim Parkinson and Anthony Pateras. The duo has developed a personal project inspired by the popular female songs of Emilia-Romagna, "Canti di guerra di lavoro e d'amore" (Unseen Worlds, 2022), which has been enthusiastically received by audiences and critics alike.
Silvia has been involved for thirteen years in a pedagogical project called Piccolo Coro Angelico: a children's choir immersed in the practices of composition, vocal improvisation and sound experimentation. The Piccolo Coro Angelico has collaborated with composers Alvin Curran, Giovanna Marini, Philip Corner and many other international artists. 

Deborah Walker
Cellist

Born in Italy in 1981, Deborah Walker is a cellist active in the field of contemporary and experimental music, both written and improvised. She is interested in various forms of musical creation, often linked to sound exploration, or in interaction with other disciplines. After graduating from the Reggio Emilia Conservatory (Italy), she studied with Agnès Vesterman and Anssi Karttunen, and in masterclasses with Rohan de Saram, Francesco Pepicelli, Harvey Shapiro and Enzo Porta.
Based in Paris since 2004, she has collaborated with Joëlle Léandre, Markus Stockhausen, Yannick Guédon, Philip Corner, Valérie Philippin, Frantz Loriot, Olivier Sens, Teri Weikel, Gaël Ascal, Tom Johnson, Greg Gilg and others.
Since 2007, Deborah Walker has been a member of Dedalus, a variable-geometry ensemble focusing on freely-instrumented scores, mainly from North American and European experimental contemporary music, from the 60s to the present day.
With Irène Lecoq, Charlotte Testu and Cyprien Busolini, she forms an unusual quartet, formed in 2011 around Wilfried Wendling's "Arkheion" project; this quartet pursues its research in dialogue with poets, notably Laurence Vielle and Fabrice Villard.
With visual artist Sofi Hémon, she creates the performance "Starflux: Clessidra" for cello and video, released on DVD by the Loligo label. In 2013, this duo produced "360° entendre voir hors champ", a performance workshop for teenagers, as part of the Les Didascalies festival in Périgueux.
She is a member of Klangfarben, François Cotinaud's ensemble, with whom she forms the duo Poetica Vivace. She also takes part in the creation of "Dancing Color Box", a circus show by the company L'Épate en l'air.
As part of a Master's degree at the University of Paris 8, she is researching the "Fluxus" work of cellist Charlotte Moorman, and developing a personal project around "Starflux", an original composition-installation for cello.
Deborah Walker has recently worked with composers Pascale Criton and Eliane Radigue on pieces for solo cello, "Chaoscaccia" and "Occam VIII".