Hartmann ensemble starts its activity in the summer of 2015, with Daniele Apicella. on percussion, Carlo Roselli on oud and afghan robab, Orsola Leone on vocals and Renata Frana on dilruba.
In 2016 they wrote "Music and travel diaries of the Middle Ages", a concert/spoken word which travelled two years on tour in historical places, churches and developmental events and videoed.
In 2018, the ensemble started its own compositions, which became the album "Trotula". In the same year, they created the video "Polorum regina", positioned first for the world top 40 of the platform dedicated to world music Ethnocloud.
In 2019, Alberto Ferraro and Gabriele Pagliano joined the band on vocals and double bass. Gabriele Loria, artistic director and producer of Rupa Rupa Records, entered the project as co-producer and sound engineer.
Commissioned by Créarc-Grenoble, Hartmann wrote for the opening ceremony of the 31st edition of the Rencontres du Jeune Théâtre European Festival "RIVOTU, Italian melodies of life and death", at the City of Grenoble Hall and then at the Merovingian crypt of the archaeological museum Grenoble Saint-Laurent.
In September 2019, the ensemble composed and performed the music and soundscapes for "Le tre corone", a contemporary Commedia dell'Arte, directed by the international theatre company Justmo' in Rome.
In October 2019, during the Palestinian Women's Festival, the ensemble attended the poet Jumana Mustafa in the reading and exhibit of her anthology (the only one translated in Italy) "Stumbling, as I walk slowly", ed. Dante Descartes.
As partner of the theater and dance company "Teatrisospesi", composed and performed live music for the show project "Orlando - the castle of illusions", which premiered on 7 December 2019, at the "Piccolo Teatro del Jester " in Salerno.
On July 2020 they took part in the second edition of the "Be in the move" Festival, La Maddalena Island in Sardinia.
The Hartmann ensemble is a finalist in the Under 35 "generations" contest at the prestigious Ethnos festival in 2020, Naples.
"Trotula" is out in the summer of 2021. teatrisospesi and Rupa rupa Records.
On December 2021, Hartmann played for "Jokes for armed men" by Mazen Maarouf, with the author, for Mediterraneo Contemporaneo Festival, Salerno.
After a suffered lineup transition and many private events, Flavia Innaro joined the band as the new singer. With her, the ensemble recorded a live EP titled "Nurture" (it means to feed, to cultivate or educate in Latin) on October 2022, now for restricted listener only

look at our new video Occhi di perla, here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CNN9timlTjg&t=94s&ab_channel=Hartmannensemble

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