Maria Laura Ronzoni

Italian songstress Maria Laura Ronzoni is an artist who's not easily categorized. She moves fluidly through the genres of music, poetry and languages. A captivating presence, Maria Laura has been described by Dublin based musician and well known songwriter, Wally Page as having “the most amazing passion in her voice”, which with her impressive and expressive guitar skills, makes her performances electric. Her songs defy the classical boundaries of both tradition and avant-garde in the new multi-cultural context of our contemporary society. With her palpable energy released on stage in her live performances, she is rapidly gaining recognition on the European cultural scene. Listing her musical and literary influences as including Dante Alighieri, Ezra Pound, Fabrizio de André, Bob Dylan and Patti Smith, she unfolds the counterpoint of her own intimate but universal journey.Winner of the Prize “BEST LYRICS” with the song “Per le Strade di Dublino”(Festival “Botteghe d’Autore”-Songwriting context; Salerno –Italy- August 2008).At present involved in a personal project of theatre/songs/poetry and visual arts in collaboration with the painter Paola Catizone, supported by Italian Cultural Institute and C.U.T. -Centro Universitario Teatrale "La Torre" (Viterbo)PRESS CLIPS“ Attrice e cantautrice italiana, da anni sulla scena dublinese, ha la capacita.. di comunicare, nelle sue esibizioni dal vivo, una straordinaria passione. Fisicamente esile come lo stelo di un fiore, Maria Laura cova pero.. intimamente un’energia smisurata. Le sue canzoni vanno oltre i confini classici della tradizione e dell’avanguardia per farsi testimonianza del nuovo contesto multiculturale dei nostri tempi. Nelle sue parole ci sono molti indebitamenti letterari e artistici che partono da Dante Alighieri per arrivare a Ezra Pound e Samuel Beckett, da Fabrizio de André a Bob Dylan, a Patti Smith…” Prof. Bruno Busetti - Direttore Istituto Italiano di Cultura di Dublino“ Inviting a singer-songwriter to Cork may bring to mind notions of coal and Newcastle or ice and Eskimos, but Italian songstress Maria Laura Ronzoni is no ordinary singer-songwriter(…). She moves fluidly through the genres of music, poetry and languages(…). A captivating presence, she has been described by Wally Page as having the “most amazing passion in her voice” which makes her performances electric.” The Cork Orchestral Society“I brani sono interessanti e vari, nel solco della migliore tradizione folk. Delicata ma anche incisiva, l’interprete ha personalità e carisma, ha le idee chiare e il risultato è un’esecuzione pienamente convincente” Premio Lunezia 2007