Duo Dillon-Torquati will perform a new version of DISTANT VOICES STILL LIVES project on 8th December in Strasbourg, at L’Imaginaire Festival, and on 24th February 2014 in London, at the Italian Institute of Culture.

A journey on the thread of memory, a search, a pursuit of  a multitude of fugitive voices: voices that tell a story, voices that sing, absent voices, voices only evoked. It is a musical journey for cello and piano, through romantic Lieder (Schumann transcribed by his friend Grutzmacher, Schubert, Liszt), contemporary Lieder (Pagliarani and Bauckholt), folk and ancient songs (Ghisi), the ghosts  of well-known songs (Stardust in Sciarrino), phrases of celebrated men and of the common man (Chet Baker in Jakob TV, Ablinger) transformed into a game of mirrors and echoes that seeks to transcend the barriers of style and type in order to create a new red thread between sounds which are only apparently distant one from another.

The project has been presented in several Festivals in Italy and in Europe, among others Ny Musik Oslo, DeutscheBank Kunsthalle Berlin and in Teatro Argentino La Plata (Argentina).

Important composers such as Carola Bauckholt, Yannis Kyrikiades, Peter Ablinger and Mario Pagliarani gave their contribution to the project, but also rising talents such as Daniele Ghisi, Andrea Agostini and Josè Manuel Serrano wrote new pieces to be premiered.