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The association supports slow looking, careful documentation, and public access to knowledge.",[426,448,471,495,516,538],{"id":427,"name":428,"role":429,"biography":430,"imageUrl":431,"order":33,"visible":11,"shortDescription":432,"imageAlt":433,"imageFile":434,"imageFocus":446,"highlightOrder":33},"member-c25e7860-e65a-4571-9dce-4949f3c768aa","Susanna Saderi","Founder","Founder of M.A.A.A.T. 13. Her research interests focus on death studies, international cooperation, the protection and promotion of cultural heritage, teratology, and mythopoiesis. Her research has explored necrotourism; identity mismatch and society as a form of mourning; tattoos as a means of processing loss; and *dark work*, referring to occupations involving exposure to death and bereavement whose emotional and social impact often remains institutionally unrecognised, including firefighters, healthcare assistants (OSS), and tattoo artists. 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Her artistic journey began in 2005 with the study of contemporary and metal singing. In 2010, she expanded her vocal training to include classical singing under the guidance of Anna Maria Festa, before enrolling at the *Nicola Sala Conservatory* in Benevento. Fascinated by Middle Eastern musical traditions and dance forms from an early age, she gradually directed her interests towards traditional music. In 2021, she graduated from the Conservatory of Vicenza with a degree in Extra-European Music, specialising in Hindustani classical music and Kathak dance. In the same year, she graduated in Anthropology and Ethnology from the University of Bologna (*Alma Mater Studiorum*), presenting a research thesis on the musical tradition of Kurdish *dengbêj*, the Kurdish singer-storytellers.\n\nOver the years, she has deepened her knowledge of vocal techniques and traditional repertoires by studying with internationally renowned masters, including Eleonore Fourniau and Veka Aler (Turkish and Kurdish singing); Katerina Papadopoulou, Martha Mavrodi, Katerina Douka, and Avgerini Gatsi (traditional Greek singing and rebetiko); Khaled Alhafed (classical Arabic singing and Syrian *muwashshahat*); Ahmet Erdogdular (Ottoman Turkish singing); and Mahsa Vahdat (Persian singing). In 2021, she also began studying Middle Eastern percussion. Committed to continuous professional development, she regularly attends courses organised by Labyrinth in Italy and Catalonia. She also undertakes frequent research trips, studying directly with local teachers and artists in their cultural contexts.\n\nHer dance journey began in 2015, focusing initially on Romani and Oriental dance styles before expanding through international travel and further training. Alongside Kathak classical dance, which she studied at the Conservatory of Vicenza under the guidance of Rosella Fanelli, she has developed her skills in Tribal Fusion and Persian, Central Asian, Armenian, and Balkan dance traditions, exploring their diverse cultural and artistic expressions. She has performed with numerous companies in Italy and abroad.\nAs a performer and singer, Anya Nova collaborates with several artistic projects, including the ensemble Nefes, whose repertoire spans the Balkans and Asia Minor, and Meraklides, dedicated to Greek music. She also takes part in literary readings, theatrical performances, and multidisciplinary projects. Alongside her artistic career, she works as a music therapist and teaches traditional music from Asia Minor, as well as various traditional dance forms, including Oriental dance, Tribal Fusion, Romani dance, and Central Asian dance. Through her various artistic projects, she has performed at Italian festivals such as Folkest and Selva in Festival, bringing her music to international audiences in Morocco, Armenia, Spain, Romania, Albania, and Switzerland.\nMake the biography more conciseImprove the chronological flow","\u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Fmedia-files\u002Fhome-themes\u002Fmember-it-member-fbd0b4ee-99e7-4340-a0b5-30413a5ae833","Ethnomusicologist",{"id":478,"fileName":479,"mimeType":437,"size":480,"url":475,"width":481,"height":482,"responsiveSources":483},"6ad529d9dfbe467225ed524d","WhatsApp Image 2026-10-16 at 21.42.06.jpeg",208706,858,974,[484,487,490,493],{"url":485,"width":486},"\u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Fmedia-files\u002Fhome-themes\u002Fmember-it-member-fbd0b4ee-99e7-4340-a0b5-30413a5ae833?profile=small",282,{"url":488,"width":489},"\u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Fmedia-files\u002Fhome-themes\u002Fmember-it-member-fbd0b4ee-99e7-4340-a0b5-30413a5ae833?profile=medium",564,{"url":491,"width":492},"\u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Fmedia-files\u002Fhome-themes\u002Fmember-it-member-fbd0b4ee-99e7-4340-a0b5-30413a5ae833?profile=large",846,{"url":494,"width":481},"\u002Fapi\u002Fv1\u002Fmedia-files\u002Fhome-themes\u002Fmember-it-member-fbd0b4ee-99e7-4340-a0b5-30413a5ae833?profile=card",{"id":496,"name":497,"role":451,"biography":498,"imageUrl":499,"order":238,"visible":11,"shortDescription":476,"imageFile":500,"highlightOrder":5},"member-d0af5786-e45c-45f1-847b-5727a64ebf95","Luca Sparro","Luca is a multi-instrumentalist and musicologist. He graduated from the *Arrigo Pedrollo Conservatory* in Vicenza, where he studied Traditional Extra-European Music with a specialisation in Indology, focusing on the bansuri. He also attended the Master's degree programme in Music Studies at the University of Bologna.\nAfter an extensive period of initial self-directed musical training, he pursued further studies in bansuri and Hindustani classical music under the guidance of Maestro Lorenzo Squillari and Maestro Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia.\n\nAs a multi-instrumentalist, he continues to explore and study traditional instruments with internationally renowned masters. He studies the saz with Maestro Cihan Türkoğlu; the oud with Yurdal Tokcan, Efrén López, Giannis Koutis, and Peppe Frana; and the duduk, an Armenian double-reed wind instrument, with Maestro Gevorg Dabaghyan, a lecturer at the Yerevan Conservatory.\nThroughout his career, Luca has gained extensive live performance and studio experience with ethno-acoustic ensembles, jazz fusion projects, and progressive music groups. His collaborations include artists such as Bruno Cabassi. He is a member of several musical ensembles, including Nefes, whose repertoire spans the Balkans and Asia Minor, and Meraklides, which specialises in Greek music.\nHe has performed at major events and festivals in Italy, including Folkest and Selva in Festival, as well as internationally. Notably, he performed as part of a duo with Kaleido Kama at the Nozhat Al Hakawati Festival in Fez, Morocco.\n\nLuca is also actively involved in theatre, composing original stage music and contributing to the development of theatrical productions, including *Strega* by M. Ciccolella.\n\nAlongside his musical and musicological research, he has developed specialised expertise in sound engineering and audio production. After completing professional training as a sound engineer, he gained practical experience working alongside sound professionals such as Andrea Mei and Paolo Ojetti, further developing his technical skills in recording and sound management.\n\nHe currently collaborates with Lyka Studio, a recording studio where he works as a sound engineer, combining technical expertise with his musical and instrumental experience. 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During her professional career, she worked at the Centre for the Protection of Historical and Cultural Heritage of the Dnipropetrovsk Region, where she headed the Department for the Protection of Archaeological Monuments and was involved in the preservation of the region’s archaeological heritage.\n\nHer main research interests include the archaeology of the Great Steppe, the history and culture of medieval nomadic societies of Eurasia, Polovtsian stone sculpture, funerary complexes, and the material culture of nomadic peoples.\n\nShe is the author of scholarly publications and has contributed to museum projects, conferences, and educational programmes devoted to the history of nomadic peoples, Polovtsian stone statues, and the worldview of the societies of the Great Steppe.\n\nShe is currently engaged in the study and cataloguing of the collection of Polovtsian stone statues at the D. I. Yavornytskyi National Historical Museum of Dnipro. 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