Members
WHO’S WHO
Margherita Baggi
VOICE
The distinctive trait of the vibrant, young Italian artist, is her polyhedric nature.
After the years of high school, during which Margherita cultivates her passion for music and theater, she enrolls at the Tartini Conservatory of Trieste, where she studies jazz vocals.
Thanks to an Erasmus scholarship, she moves to Gothenburg to attend the courses at the Academy of Music and Theater of the town. There she meets Alicia Lazaro Arteaga and Klara Ahlersten with which she forms the trio Ukloprij. Thus, she begins her experimentation in the field of composition.
In August 2020 she creates D'Origine, the first personal exhibition of installations, in which she exhibits artists and interviews them on the sense of belonging to a place.
In the spring of 2021, she makes her debut at the Rossetti Theater in Trieste with the theater piece "Le Eccellenti", directed by Marcela Serli, in which she performs live music.
She recently started collaborating with the young accordionist Carlo Sampaolesi on an interdisciplinary project, in which they investigate the sense of not belonging to a familiar place.
In autumn 2021, after years of collaboration with guitarist Piercarlo Favro, she will record the duo's first EP, with original songs and reinterpretations of jazz standards.
Klara Ahlersten
VOICE
Klara is a Swedish singer, appreciated for her open minded attitude towards the voice and her disrespect towards its presumed limitations. Her love for music has taken her through most parts of Scandinavia, and her curiosity has brought her to pop, jazz and traditional nordic music. In improvised music she found her heart and she has thereafter worked in different constellations of experimental art. In her most recent projects she has interpreted american music from the great depression into a modern take.
Alicia Lázaro
VOICE, PIANO
Spanish composer, singer, and pianist Alicia Lázaro (Madrid) was drawn to music at an early age. She started playing piano and violin as a child and continued her studies in the conservatory. She graduated cum laude in contemporary composition in 2017.
Her interest in interdisciplinarity and genre-crossing perspectives lead her to take part in very diverse projects. Such as “Heart of Darkness”; a radio drama for musicians, live electronics, and audiovisual media that received the prestigious Leonardo Grant for scientific and cultural projects 2018 from the BBVA Foundation. Her works as a composer have been premiered and played in places as the Auditorio 400 of the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía.
She creates a multidimensional vision of sounding matter through piano, voice, and electronics, exploring the timbre and relationship between these three instruments and thinking of sound as a stream that can be carved; always arising and sinking back into silence.
Sound is just a breeze disguised in textures. Music as blended space and resonating movement. What happens where music encounters silence?
Jonas Nilsson
DOUBLE BASS
onas Nilsson is a double-bass player, improviser, and composer based in Gothenburg, Sweden. His musicianship is characterized by a passion for both improvised and composed music and he has pursued studies in jazz and improvisation as well as composition within the contemporary classical field. His musical endeavors are constantly fuelled by his desire to combine the architectonic mindset of composition with the spontaneous, energetic, and intimate side of improvisation, resulting in a curious mindset and an experimental approach to playing as well as composing music. In Ukloprij he immediately found a creatively stimulating role in supporting, challenging, and ornamenting the compositions and creative expressions of the other members of the group. Apart from music, Jonas is also passionate about science, cooking, and learning new languages.
