Federica Fruscella
Singer – Songwriter – Actress
She starts studying music theory, singing and piano as well as english language as a child. She sings and translates her own songs in english since childhood.
2008 – she starts performing in the italian jazz scene with her own quartet “So.. Walt!”, singing at the Eddie Lang Jazz Festival and at the Roma Blues Festival. For two years she is the front singer of the Massimo Pirone Swing Big Band.
2009 – she travels to England and Dublin, the first of many long trips which allow her to become familiar with the land and the language that inspire her most.
2011 – she starts listening and singing world music, getting more and more confident with the singing in several languages. She sings in english, french, italian, neapolitan, gaelic, hebrew, turkish. She sings at the Veleia Romana Festival during the lecture of “Eneide Libro II” by actor Massimo Popolizio. 2012 – she achieves her 5 years Degree at the Saint Louis College of Music. She sings at the Stabio World Music Festival with the “Piccola Banda Ikona” and at the Auditorium Parco Della Musica. She collaborates with Takadum Orchestra (Music from Mediterranean Area).
2012 – she starts her own musical research that will always combine music from the North and the South of Europe, particularly irish and english traditional music with Southern Italy chants.
2013 – she’s the vocalist in the Barbara Eramo Emily Band, a project based on the poems by Emily Dickinson, with which she performs at the Auditorium of Rome, at the Casa del Jazz and during the Cambio Festival.
2013 – she starts studying theatre at the “Studio Orale – Arte dell’Attore” Academy directed by Salvatore Cardone.
2013/2014 – she studies theatre with Giancarlo Sepe at the Teatro La Comunità.
2014 – she is chosen by director Giancarlo Sepe to perform at the “Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi
2015” with “Dubliners” by James Joyce, and later at the Teatro Stabile d’Abbruzzo, both as an actress and singer. She has been teaching voice at Giancarlo Sepe’s Theatre “La Comunità” of Rome since 2015.
2015/2016 – she studies Commedia dell’Arte with Carlo Boso at the Académie Internationale des Arts du Spectacle – AIDAS of Paris.
2017 – she performs as Jean D’Arc in Shakespeare’s “Henriad” directed by Guglielmo Guidi at the Teatro Belli of Rome.
2017 to 2019 – she is assistant director to Guglielmo Guidi for “Bad Jazz” by Robert Farquhar, “Bogus Woman” by Kay Adshead (Trend Festival at Teatro Belli of Rome), “Kissing Sid James” by Robert Farquhar (italian tour).
2018/2019 – she teaches voice at the Naples School af Arts (Teatro Augusteo).
2020 – she is on stage, both as a singer and actress, with “Clonmacnoise – Storie di Uomini e di Spiriti”, from Alessandro Baricco’s “The Barbarians – An essay on the mutation of culture”, directed by Guglielmo Guidi.
2022 – she is on stage with “Clonmacnoise – Beat come Battito”, an adaptation of Baricco’s trilogy “What we were looking for”, “The Game”, “The Barbarians” covering the role of leading actress and singer-storyteller.
She’s now working on her first studio album inspired by Celtic culture.
She’s also working on a project of translation into english and gaelic of some songs from the neapolitan traditional repertoire.