mariaFausta returns with more rock infused sound, a clear departure from her 2017 debut album, MILLION FACES .
mariaFausta returns with more rock infused sound, a clear departure from her 2017 debut album, MILLION FACES .
Million Faces, represents the artist’s debut as a soloist and reflects the will to be accessible to everyone, without sacrificing her own nature and the different qualities of her beloved styles. Her love for the orchestra, from classic to modern sounds, the love for rock, electronic, progressive,blues, jazz and pop music.
Violinist, singer and composer, Mariafausta (alias of Maria Fausta Rizzo) started studying music at the age of 14. She graduated from the Corelli Music Conservatory in Messina in violin and the CMDL in jazz and in conducting at the European Conducting Academy of Vicenza.
She has collaborated with ensembles of all genres from baroque to pop, from electronic and rock to blues and jazz. She has performed in events and concerts in several countries including Italy, France, China, Spain, Switzerland and Turkey. She was the singer/violinist of the Spell Trio, a rock-progressive band with Melo Mafali on piano and Pippo Mafali on double bass, for 10 years. In France, where she lived for several years, she also played at the Italian Institute of Culture in Paris and at the prestigious Festival of Samois-sur-Seine.
She writes soundtracks for R.T.I. Mediaset‘s television libraries and for the theater. She is the author of the soundtrack for “Doll is Mine,” performed by Azuki Agino, and “Non domandarmi di me Marta mia,” by Katia Ippaso, performed by Elena Arvigo and performed in Paris with 36 runs, then at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, following by a tour in all Italian theaters. She has collaborated with international artists such as Didier Lockwood, Franco Mezzena, Didier Del Aguila, Olivier Ker Ourio, Eda Zari, Melo Mafali, and Kurt Maloo (Double).
In 2017 she released the album “Million Faces“, her first solo album, followed by an intense live and promotional activity that took her across Italy and abroad for almost two years. She presented the album also in Italy, on tour with Le Orme and David Cross of King Crimson, guest starred at the show of Will Hunt, drummer of Evanescence, at the FIM Music Fair in Milan, at the Italian Consulate in Istanbul on the occasion of the Festa della Repubblica and at many other live shows. During the pandemic, she also devoted herself with enthusiasm to teaching. In 2022, she released her second album Better, Like a Machine.
mariaFausta est un diamant brut au coeur de velours ! Une voix à la profondeur et l’âpreté “Joplinienne” loin de l’aseptisation vocale des chanteurs d’aujourd’hui . Elle nous réveille et nous touche au plus profond
de notre intimité , là où l’on ne peut opposer la moindre résistance .
Maria Fausta est non seulement musicienne de la tête aux pieds mais aussi une grande tragédienne tant elle incarne magnifiquement
La poésie de sa musique et de ses textes . J’adore !Didier LockwoodFrench Jazz violinist, composer, producer and founder of CMDL
mariaFausta, un talento violento ma violento positivo. Come una creazione.Lior ShambadalIsraeli composer and chief conductor of Berliner Symphoniker
mariaFausta, un’artista eclettica, geniale. Una musicista a 360 gradi…Franco MezzenaItalian violin virtuoso
Uno dei più grandi talenti naturali che abbia mai conosciuto. Musica allo stato puroMelo MafaliItalian composer and pianist