Duo Confluence
The perfect harmony between saxophone and guitar
A Unique Musical Dialogue
We started playing together during our studies at the B. Marcello Conservatory of Music in Venice, Italy, and in early 2022, we officially founded Duo Confluence. Believing from the start that our unusual collaboration could work, we managed to convince the sceptical audience by creating a balance between the saxophone and the guitar, two instruments rarely seen together.
We established ourselves in France after continuing our training with the Master's in chamber music at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et Danse (CNSMD) in Lyon.
After a few concerts in the Venetian territory, we won the first prize at the chamber music competition "Città di Belluno" in May 2022. We participated in the summer concerts "Il Marcello Suona" in Venice and had the pleasure of collaborating with the association "Musica Con le Ali" and the "Teatro La Fenice". In April 2023, we received the first prize at the international competition "Giovani Musicisti - Città di Treviso" and the "contemporary prize" at the CIMCA in Arnuero, Spain.
Among our recent activities, we were fortunate to participate in 2023/2024 in the first edition of Residenze Erranti in Italy, an artistic project organised by the Barco Teatro in Padova and the Festival Corde d'Autunno in Milan, with guitarists Marco Ramelli, Giacomo Susani and Enrica Savigni. From 2024 to 2026 we participated in chamber music masterclasses with Federica Repini.
COMPETITIONS: Udine
Concert at the Barco Teatro (what was it called?) and at the Festival Corde d'Autunno, followed by a concert in Dublin, Ireland for the Italian Cultural Centre of Dublin. The concerts with the L. Bon foundation and finally the concert at the Les Heures Musicales festival at the Abbey of Lessay in Normandy.
Elegance and Exploration
Guitar and saxophone in classical music?
It doesn't exist!
And yet, here we are.
Baroque, classicism, romanticism, contemporary, songs, improvisation . . .
Always in search of quality and emotions
The musicians
Michelangelo Ghedin
Alto and soprano saxophone
Voice
Michelangelo Ghedin, a musician from Treviso, Italy, obtained his degree in 2019 with top marks and honours at the Benedetto Marcello Conservatory in Venice with Maestro Marco Vanni.
In 2021, he completed his Master's in saxophone with top marks and honours at the G. Frescobaldi Conservatory in Ferrara under the guidance of Maestro Marco Gerboni.
He is currently studying with Jean-Denis Michat at the Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Lyon, where he is a member of the saxophonists' ensemble "Artisanat Furieux".
He has participated in numerous masterclasses with prominent saxophonists, such as Federico Mondelci, Nicolas Arsenijevic, Nikita Zimin, Philippe Portjoie, Naomi Sullivan, and Massimo Mazzoni. He has also attended summer courses in Spilimbergo and Corciano and participated in the XXII International Saxophone Scene in Fermo.
From 2017 to 2019, he performed with the ensemble "In continuum" and as a soloist for the A.Gi.Mus. association in some of the most prestigious venues in Venice, such as the Ateneo Veneto, Palazzo Grassi, Ca' Sagredo, and Palazzo Ducale, in addition to other solo performances in the theatres of Feltre and Asiago.
On 9 March 2017, after an audition, he was chosen as a soloist on the stage of the Teatro Malibran, accompanied by the theatre orchestra "La Fenice" in Venice.
He received first prizes at the "Diapason D’Oro" and "Musica Insieme" competitions in Pordenone and Musile di Piave.
Teresa Gasparini
Guitar
Voice
(and one day perhaps mandolin)
Teresa Gasparini began studying guitar at the age of 8, then continued her studies at the B. Marcello Conservatory in Venice where she obtained her degree with honours in 2020. At the same conservatory in 2022, she obtained her master's in classical guitar with full marks.
In 2020, she won the "Giovanni Rohr" scholarship in Venice.
From 2013 to 2019, she participated in the ensemble "Viaggiatori Armonici" where she had the opportunity to record two albums and collaborate with international folk artists such as Andy Irvine, Arup Kanti Das, and Fernando Deghi.
She participated in masterclasses with professors such as Elena Casoli, Heiki Maï tlik, and Chisato Yamamoto and in 2018, she took part in a workshop at
"Fondazione Cini" in Venice: Flute and guitar in 20th-century music.
from 2019, she collaborated with the theatre company "Centro Teatrale Lorenzo da Ponte'' of Vittorio Veneto in their productions.