Relevé Live by Anaïs Drago

“Relevé is something unstable yet irresistibly danceable” (A. Drago)

Violinist and performer Anaïs Drago, awarded in 2022 as best new talent from Musica Jazz Magazine’s annual referendum and winner of Seifert Competition 2024, leads the new trio "Relevé" which includes Federico Calcagno on clarinets and Max Trabucco on drums and percussions.
Strings, winds, percussions and movement: the music takes on a dimension that is not only sonorous but also plastic, immediately evoking movement, momentum, the inescapable impulse of our bodies in space.
The union of three instruments belonging to different families gives life to unusual sounds and colors, just as the influences that characterise the musical personalities of the three give the project wide-ranging sonorities.
From jazz to contemporary classical, from improvisation to experimentation with techniques and timbres, to folklore, the repertoire is completely new and unreleased. Each composition, divided into suites of several movements, draws inspiration from 20th Century artworks belonging to literature, painting and sculpture.
In “Relevé”, Anaïs Drago translates the poetics of artists and authors such as Paul Klee, Umberto Boccioni and Alejandro Jodorowsky into music, making it as much as possible imbued with the languages and forms of our contemporaneity.
The project, born in 2023 with the support of WeStart production centre of Novara (Italy), initially took the name “Terre Ballerine” (literally “Dancing Lands”). After the first year of concerts in festivals and venues the name turned into “Relevé”, which refers to the academic ballet jargon to indicate climbing on pointe, to underline the momentum and explosive drive that pervades their music and live performance.

Violinist and performer from Italy,
best new talent for Musica Jazz magazine 2022, Anaïs moves between the sounds of free improvisation, electroacoustic music, jazz.
Awarded with first prize in Seifert Competition 2024, international contest dedicated to jazz string players, her name was included in 2023 and 2024 annual poll by New York-based magazine Downbeat as rising star in violin section.