Antigoni Goni

As a performing artist who has lived and worked in both the U.S. and in Europe, the Volterra Project’s Founder and Artistic Director, Antigoni Goni, has experience with both the cultural differences between these societies, and with the universal climate of competition that exists in traditional guitar training programs. She enjoys a truly international career, performing extensively in Europe, Russian, North and South America and the Far East, both as a recitalist and soloist. more

Nuccio d'Angelo

Nuccio D'Angelo began playing music at the age of six, immediately showing a remarkable interest for the guitar and for composition. His most important teachers have been guitarist Alvaro Company and composer Gaetano Giani-Luporini. more

Atanas Ourkouzounov

Atanas Ourkouzounov was born in Burgas (Bulgaria) and lived in Sofia where he tok up the guitar with Dimitar Doychinov. He continued his studies in France having as teachers Arnaud Dumond, Alexandre Lagoya and Olivier Chassain. At the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris (where he graduated in 1997 with an unanimous Premier Prix in guitar) he has studied chamber music, analysis, ethnomusicology and generative improvisation.more

Mie Ogura

Born in Japan 1973, Mie Ogura started to play the flute at age 7.
In 1989, she finished her studies at the Takamatsu Music Highschool in Japan and obtained the first price in the National Students’ Flute Competition in Osaka.

Since 1995 Mie Ogura has appeared regulary as a soloist and chamber musician with different ensembles and orchestras,among others,Ensemble L’ItinÈraire, Ensemble Entretemps, Orchestre de Chambre de Paris, under the direction of directors such as Peter Eotvos, Mark Foster, Zolt Nagy and others.more

Francesca Marchesi

Francesca Marchesi discovered the Alexander Technique while studying with Conrad Klemm, with whom she graduated as a flute player in 1984 at Winterthur in Switzerland. In 1989 she started professional training at “Centro Italiano Tecnica Alexander” with Fran Robinson and Angelo Cinque of the Scott and Carrington schools, becoming a certified Alexander more

Melanie Smith

Melanie Smith is the Executive Director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus, a 3-time Grammy Award winning ensemble of young women singers, ages 8-18. Prior to her work at SFGC, Melanie was the Director of Education and Artistic Administration for San Francisco Performances, where she created several unique artist residency programs with emerging and established classical and jazz musicians. Melanie has also worked in New York for the violinist Midori and her foundation, Midori and Friends, for Young Concert Artists, and at Carnegie Hall. more