Davide Ambrogio
Available for the 2026 festival season – 2026/2027 season
New album: November 14, 2025 – *Mater Nullius* (Quartet or Quintet)
Mater Nullius – Premio Loano for Best Album
Also available: *Lomax* – Vocal Quartet featuring Enza Pagliara, Dario Muci, and Alessia Tondo.
Press:
TTTT from Télérama for the release of Mater Nullius.
As a member of a generation of avant-garde artists, it’s no surprise that he aligns more closely with the art of Kate Tempest than with the canon of folk revivalists. Davide Ambrogio is an innovative artist who blazes new trails to reconnect the past and the present. – Songlines
Davide Ambrogio captivates and astonishes with the power and precision of his voice, whether he is singing or speaking. – Le Monde
This Calabrian from a village that looks across the waves toward Sicily knows how to polish the past of music and tales and refine them through contact with today’s machines and effects. – Radio Nova
A gem from Calabria who captivates audiences with the intensity of his performances. – Télégrame
Davide Ambrogio enchants audiences with his voice and his instruments. – Ouest France
Davide Ambrogio develops a delicate aesthetic and a rich imagination, drawing on the ancestral splendor of remote regions, which is now sublimated in his new album, Mater Nullius. A singer, multi-instrumentalist, and true seeker of the absolute, Davide Ambrogio offers us a marvelous album. – RTS
Davide Ambrogio grew up in a small town in Aspromont, a mountainous territory in the extreme south-west of Italy, Calabria, where ancient religious rituals and devotional chants are still alive. Following academic and musical studies in Rome, during which he collaborated with the Etnomusa popular music orchestra of La Sapienza and various other artists, he furthered his knowledge with renowned musicologists on vocal technique, traditional oral singing, Sardinian singing, and the aesthetics and polyphony of Sardinian and Salentino singing. A member of several groups, including Linguamadre, with whom he won the national Loano Giovani prize, he recently distinguished himself as a soloist, winning the Musica contro le Mafie and Ethnos Gener/Azioni 2020 awards.
Attached to his Calabrian roots, where he grew up, Davide drew inspiration from this heritage of oral tradition to create his own original musical language and release his debut album Evocazioni e Invocazioni in November 2021, already included in the Transglobal Music Chart and World Music Chart Europe, and awarded Top of The World Album by Songlines Magazine upon its release.
He has performed at major festivals and events in Italy and across Europe, including: SponzFest, Musicultura, the “Città di Loano” National Prize, the Parodi Prize, Mare e Miniere, Les Suds d’Arles, Le Plancher, Rio Loco, the Imaterial Festival, the Sacred Spirit Festival, the Fira B in Manresa, the Mucem in Marseille, the Lyon Opera, and many others.
Over the past two years, Davide Ambrogio has devoted himself to writing his second album, titled “Mater Nullius,” released on November 14 via Viavox, a work that explores modern humanity’s disconnection from nature and the need for a human and spiritual rebirth. Recorded in Alia (PA) between the Cortese family’s “Il Bosco”—a gathering place for creative and free spirits—and the Gurfa caves, it is a powerful fusion of ancestral soundscapes and contemporary vision.
“Mater Nullius” received the Premio Loano for best traditional music album, Italy’s most prestigious award.
Aspromonte is where I was born and grew up for over twenty years. At its feet lies a Calabria still rich in ancient knowledge and traditions that the mountains have preserved. In this place, time and space have a unique value, and the word community means being together and sharing a language. Here, between sound and people, there’s a direct relationship between the hum of words, the cries of animals, the bagpipes, the dance, the sound of cars in the distance, the trickle of water from the fiumara. Everything seems to be part of the same dance and the same song.Davide Ambrogio