Biographies

Igor Olivier Ezendam

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Listen, listen, listen...
Igor is a Dutchborn artist, singer, multi-instrumentalist, teacher and student of vocal harmonics, a polyphonic singing style with origins in Mongolia and Tibet, found in shamanic traditions the world over. Igor shares this instrument for deep transformation at concerts, during workshops and in individual sessions.

As a voice teacher Igor has shared with many people during sessions, performing at elementary and high-schools, universities and old-age homes, theaters, weddings and yoga schools, always happy to see the faces when he starts singing vocal harmonics.
" I'm inspired by Tuvan (Mongolia), Tibetan, Sufi, Native American, African, Aboriginal and all the world's freestyle singers, and by nature everywhere. Especially vocal harmonics, a singing technique which creates a scale of overtones, whistle-like sounds in my voice, blew my mind.

I love these sounds ever since i heard them come out of the radio one day in the nineties, listening to a concert of David Hykes and his Harmonic Choir."
Igor has been touring around the globe with his Overtone World Music concerts, in which he combines various singing styles with didgeridoo, percussion (hang, djembe, daf, doundoun, bodhrán), shrutibox, tibetan bowls and stringed instruments (mandola, cümbüs, guitar, guitalele).

He's written a book on singing and overtones, called 'Your Sound is Sacred' (translation from italian coming soon), and recorded several CDs as a soloist as well as with other artists, available at the Bazar or on Itunes.
Deeply inspired by Sufi philosophy through the books of Hazrat Inayat Khan, he spent 25 years supporting their meditation camp in the Swiss Alps.

The Sufi Message wakens in humanity the spirit of brotherhood, with tolerance on the part of each for the religion of the other, with forgiveness from each for the fault of the other.
Hazrat Inayat Khan,
Vol. 9, The Unity of Religious Ideals


As a 3D sound artist Igor has had soundsculptures exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam and the Académie des Beaux Arts in Paris. See his Giant Didgeridoo project here

Arianna Benedetta Artioli

Italian born Arianna is a cultural creative, Yoga and Meditation teacher, Kirtan enthusiast, loves sacred songs and dances.

She shares her wisdom through Bach Flowers, psychosomatics, emphatic communication, Possibility Management, personal and community growth, permaculture and vegetarian cuisine.
Her main teachers have been Selene Calloni Williams (Yoga and Shamanism), Kumu Keala Ching/Kumu Mira/Kumu Lorenza (Hawaiian teachings), Milena Rotmann (Family Constellations and shadow work), Raviji (yoga and meditation), Jacopo Ceccarelli (Anukalana Yoga), Diane Seadancer (Women Circles, Native teachings of the Twisted Hair), Krishnatakis (Thai Yoga Massage and Meditation), Krishnananda and Amana  Trobe (Learning Love Institute, inner child and trauma healing work), Clinton Callahan (Possibility Management, archetypal adult initiatory processes).
Since 2010 she accompanies her partner Igor Ezendam in his Singing Freedom Journey, harmonic singing and personal growth seminars in Europe, adding a humorous vein and a bit of healthy movement.

Currently they live between France and Greece, where they are co-creating a eco community and keep travelling in Europe to share Singing Freedom and SightSinging travelling retreats.
Arianna developped Blossom Life Coaching  to help people release tension and psychological as well as physical ailments through yoga, breathing, psychosomatics, empathic communication and flower essence therapy. Included in the meeting are the recipe and a vial of your personal mix of Bach Flowers.

On Facebook Arianna has created a movie page that includes all the films and documentaries that she thinks are worth seeing, for a general awakening to life and such ...

5 years of Massaggia-ti
massage festival

As organizer of this massage festival in Lugano, Switzerland, Arianna has managed to bring together more than 50 masseurs, schools and associations under one roof, selected to meet the public in a direct and informal way, many activities for adults and children of all ages, musical events, and demonstrations of European but also exotic dances.

Established in 2008, the Massaggia-ti wellness fair was a platform of precious meetings; It aimed to disseminate information and innovation in the world of holistic well-being, proposing directly to the public the experience of new techniques and ancient disciplines updated to the needs of our time.