Guests

La Traditora offers a vast range of renaissance and baroque music, which showcases their spontaneous musicianship. They collaborate as well with prestigious guest musicians and dancers for enriching their diversity of programs.

Alice Borciani- soprano

Born in Reggio Emilia, Italy, Alice Borciani graduated in trumpet and in singing at the conservatory of Reggio Emilia. She specialized in Baroque vocal repertoire with Monica Piccinini. In 2012 she graduated with distinction at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis under the guidance of Gerd Türk. She has won several international music competitions, such as "Premio Città di Padova" (1st prize), international baroque singing competition "Francesco Provenzale" (3rd prize), Göttingen Händel-Festspiele competition (1st prize with ensemble Cafebaum).

She has sung in stage productions and ensembles under conductors such as Jordi Savall, Diego Fasolis, Andrea Marcon, Thomas Hengelbrock and Leonardo Garcia Alarcon. She is a member of the Balthasar Neumann Chor, of the La Cetra Vokalensemble and of the Choeur de Chambre de Namur.

She is also interested in contemporary music and she has taken part in various operas, concerts and first performances of contemporary pieces.

Mariana Flores - soprano

Soprano. Originally from Mendoza, Argentina, she studied singing at the University of Cuyo and then at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Basel.

She participated in master classes with Patricia Pease (USA), Jennifer Smith (England), Margreet Honig (Netherlands), Jennifer Larmore (U.S.) and Bernarda Fink (Buenos Aires, Slovenia).

Mariana sings frequently under direction of Leonardo Garcia Alarcon with the ensemble “Cappella Mediterranea” and “Clematis Ensemble”.

She already worked with Daniela Dolci (“Musica Fiorita”), Gabriel Garrido (“Elyma”), Michael Form, Manfred Kraemer, Martin Gester(“Le Parlement de la musique”), Andrea Marcon, Andreas Stoehr, Christina Pluhar (“L’Arpeggiata”), Vincent Dumestre (Le Poème harmonique), between others.

Mariana is a versatile singer. She sings repertoire from XVII century to XX century. Mainly Monteverdi, Strozzi, Cavalli, Haendel, Mozart and Piazzolla.

Between her discography we found: “Madrigals and Motet” by Peter Philips, Cappella Mediterranea, Ambronay Editions 2007, “Madrigals and a solo cantata by Barbara Strozzi”, Cappella Mediterranea, Ambronay Editions 2008 (Midem Classical Awards 2009),...

Murat Coskun - percussionist

Fundiert auf seinem Studium der Orientalistik und Musikethnologie vermittelt der international renommierte Perkussionist Murat Coşkun zwischen den musikalischen Welten des Orients und Okzidents, schöpft aus einem großen Musikrepertoire unterschiedlichster Kulturen und engagiert sich in vielen Stilrichtungen wie Weltmusik, Klassik, Alte Musik, Jazz und Neue Musik. Er konzertiert weltweit mit seinem Soloprogramm Finger Dance und seine Konzerte führten ihn u.a. nach gesamt West- und Osteuropa, in die Mongolei, USA, Vietnam, Kambodscha, Indonesien, Laos, Korea, Marokko, Algerien, Tunesien, Türkei, Iran, Irak, Israel. Er arbeitet regelmäßig in Projekten mit international renommierten Musikern wie dem 5-fachen Grammy-Gewinner Glen Velez, Michel Godard oder Gianluigi Trovesi.
Als gefragter Studiomusiker für zahlreiche CD-, DVD-Produktionen sowie auch als Komponist bei Theaterproduktionen tritt Coskun ebenso in Erscheinung (u.a. BR, Theater Luxembourg, Theater Luzern). TV- und Rundfunkproduktionen – mit ihm und über ihn – runden sein künstlerisches Profil ab (u.a. ZDF, ARTE, BR, SWR, WDR, Deutschland Radio).