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Artistic direction: ANTONIO BALLARANO

Sergio Rubini
Ares Tavolazzi
Ellade Bandini

Old-fashioned frontman, direct and communicative he moves with ease among squares, clubs, theaters and exclusive private parties. He defines himself as a mixture of a crooner, a storyteller and a minstrel. Over the years, in parallel with his intense artistic activity, he has undertaken organizational tasks, first as a consultant and promoter and then gradually as an artistic director, becoming an absolute animator and protagonist of the Perugian nights. In particular, at the head of the Bad King club, in a few years he became one of the national reference points for the organization of exclusive events in the field of word music, songwriting and jazz. On the stage of the club, to name a few, singer-songwriters of the caliber of Concato, Cristicchi, Nada, E.Bennato, Tricarico, Marina Rei, Gegè Telesforo, Musica Nuda, exponents of Italian word music, including Lucilla Galeazzi, Peppe Voltarelli, Riccardo Tesi , Lavinia Mancusi, international stars such as Scott Henderson, Dennis Chambers, Alphonso Johnson, Chester Thompson, Geoff Tate, Larry Mitchell, Robin Eubanks, Ernestico, Hector Martignon and great session men on the national scene, such as Fausto Mesolella, Ellade Bandini, Adriano Molinari, Christian Meyer, Lele Melotti, Ares Tavolazzi, Andrea Braido, Claudio “Gallo” Golinelli, Gegè Munari, Finaz, Luca Aquino, Carmine Joanna, Roy Paci, Fabrizio Foschini, Cesareo, Michele Fazio, Tetraktis Percussioni. The themed jazz evenings in collaboration with the teachers of the Perugia Conservatory (A.Lazzeri, A.Bravo, M.Raja, M.Rubegni, P. Spallati, F. Spinetti, A.Paternesi) and the regular appointments are very suggestive, such as the monthly funky appointments  in collaboration with DJs Alberto Onofri, Lamberto Paolini and Aleardo Bucari, incredible lovers of black music who on several occasions shared the console with real 70/80 funk icons such as Spranga and Mozart. There is no shortage of forays into the world of theater: an absolute exclusive for clubs, Sergio Rubini with the “SUD” show and IMPRO ‘shows by Voices and Projects. Ballarano collaborates with Caprioni Eventi in Teramo, Bipede booking in Terni, Music Farm Perugia, Music Boulevard Perugia.

Scientific direction: TERESA ZELANTE

Associate Prof. in General and Clinical Pathology, Clinical Immunology and Immunopathology, University of Perugia. She worked in Singapore as a postdoc at SIGN, Immunos, thus becoming an international expert in the immunology of opportunistic infections. She returned to Italy with a project funded by MIUR Montalcini in 2014. She carries out her research activity at the Department of Experimental Medicine, University of Perugia. She boasts numerous publications in high impact international journals.

Logistics: MARIA INES FRANCO

Retired entrepreneur, strong sense of taste and pragmatism, historical memory of Leopoldo Zelante’s thought.

International relationships: MARGHERITA ZELANTE

Teacher of Italian and German in Frankfurt, she manages the association’s international contacts by promoting the internalization of ‘Via Agreste’.