One-Woman Orchestra Concert • Stage & Busker

Sviolinate

I've been in a steady relationship with a piece of wood for over 30 years.

Duration: 45–75 min (Full Concert) or modular festival sets
Format & style: Swing, Balkan, Blues, Funky & Stand-Up Musical Comedy
Stage / street mobility: Indoor stage PA or 100% autonomous battery amp mounted on a Graziella bicycle
Instruments on stage: Violin, Loop Station, Vocals, Ukulele & Tap/Foot Percussion

“I've been in a steady relationship with a piece of wood for over 30 years.” Sviolinate is a spectacular concert for a one-woman orchestra fueled by swing, Balkan rhythms, blues, funk, and infectious comic banter with the audience.

Performing original songs and instrumental compositions built live through loop-station layering—from Django Reinhardt's 'Minor Blues' to her own 'Funking Violin'—Marta Pistocchi tells the hilarious, tender, and absurd love story between a girl and her wooden instrument.

Repertoire & signature features

Original Loop-Station Compositions ('Funking Violin')
Jazz Manouche & Swing ('Minor Blues')
Balkan & Klezmer Virtuoso Improvisations
Original Ironical Songs with Ukulele & Violin
Optional Autonomous Battery Amplification on Marta's Vintage Graziella Bicycle

Adaptable like water

“Sviolinate is like water: it takes the shape of the context in which it finds itself.” Equally at home in an intimate theatre, a jazz club, a summer courtyard, or roving between festival squares on her vintage Graziella bicycle.

The Sviolinate instrumental album

Accompanied by Marta's solo instrumental album 'Sviolinate — The Violin as a Genre Revolution!', overturning classical conventions to celebrate the rhythmic, popular soul of the violin.

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