About Me
Raffaele Schiavo (Siracusa, Italy): eclectic musician, music therapist (Quadrennial Course of Music Therapy in Assisi/Perugia) and research, qualified in Canto at the Conservatory of Music A. Corelli in Messina, he studied piano and composition in Rome and in Budapest. Member of the renaissance-baroque ensemble Harmoniosi Concenti from the 1998, he devotes his main activity to the executive praxis of the early music and to a wide research on vocal potential through the Harmonic Singing technique. In July 2002 he presented with success his workshop ’Overtone Singing: revelation from our immediate invisible’ at the 10th World Congress of Music Therapy in Oxford (UK). The same workshop, in its extensive version, titled ’Harmonic Singing and the musical archetypes recovered: A pre-text to revive the light motifs of our resonant nature’, was selected for the 6th European Music Therapy Congress in Jyväskylä (Finland, June 2004) and for the XII World Congress of Music Therapy (Buenos Aires, July 2008). He cooperates with the Istituto di Gestalt - Human Communication Center and teaches at the Master of Psychoncology for the University Cattolica – Sacro Cuore of Rome (sited in Siracusa) and works as music therapist and trainer at the Italian national health service (A.S.L. 8 Siracusa), rehabilitation centres, hospitals, school and penitentiaries. His research in Oncology is appreciated worldwide (poster presentation at the 1st International Congress of Integrative Oncology, Society of Integrative Oncology, New York, Nov. 2004; trainer/music therapist inside C.I.A.O. – Interdisciplinary Centre for the Onchological Listening, 2008 Siracusa) and in Penitentiary (Centro Benenzon Italia, II International Congress of Music Therapy, ’Music between neuroscience and art’, Alba-CN, May-June 2006). He conducts workshops on Harmonic Singing and the recovery of musical archetypes, by focusing on the body as an instrument of resonance. His shows and his compositions are characterized by an unusual composition of styles and gestures, of tunes and lyrics taken from the ancient literature and from original works through which the Overtone Singing expression becomes dominant. He frequently performs with the actress/author Maristella Marino, his companion in life, choosing to interact with the works of some Sicilian figurative artists. In this regard, he recently appeared into the Rai Educational TV program, inside the chapter entitled Siciliarte. At the moment he writes a column ’Music & Therapy’ for the Italian magazine Suono.
