The visit of an internationally renowned artist is a source of inspiration for our musicians!
These days we had the pleasure to welcome to Greece the charismatic artist Francesca Canali, who leads an intensive international career as an acclaimed flute soloist, chamber musician, pedagogue and scientific researcher, she plays a wide and eclectic repertoire that ranges from baroque to contemporary music and has performed in major venues and at renowned international festivals throughout Europe, America, Africa, Russia and Japan. Moreover, she devotes herself to international music education projects and interdisciplinary research in the fields of music and art education, science of musical performance, musician’s physiology and medicine, giftedness, empowerment and potential development.
For a whole week Francesca Canali visited El Sistema Greece as part of her residency program, which takes place thanks to the support of the city of Salzburg, and spent some unforgettable days with our musicians. Our students in Kypseli, Corinth and Schisto had the opportunity to attend a series of educational musical activities and also to gain valuable knowledge as well as inexhaustible inspiration through her talent and her personal journey that led her to success.
Apart from the nucleus of El Sistema Greece, Francesca Canali generously shared inspiration and valuable knowledge with the students of some leading conservatories of Attica. We sincerely thank the Filippos Nakas Conservatory and the Musical Horizons Conservatory for their cooperation, as through Francesca Canali’s educational seminars they gave the opportunity to even more musicians to meet an internationally recognized artist.
Her diverse and parallel activities as an artist, pedagogue, and scientist enable her to ground all artistic and pedagogical main themes of musical practice and pedagogy on extensive scientific knowledge and expertise. Based on the results of more than twenty years of interdisciplinary research, Francesca Canali has developed an innovative holistic pedagogical approach to flute and music pedagogy and her own instrumental pedagogical model. Her visit was a great pleasure and honor for us as with her career in music she contributes significantly to the promotion of music as a tool that transforms people’s lives.
*The residency was realized thanks to the support of the City of Salzburg
