Maurizio Puxeddu, musician, composer, researcher and teacher, owes his musical training to the studies carried out in the “G. P. da Palestrina ”of Cagliari; subsequently, graduated in transverse flute, he taught Music Education and Transverse Flute, Launeddas Theory and Practice.
The experience gained in the school environment and the passion for the rediscovery of traditional Sardinian sounds, together with a scrupulous search for authentic island musical instruments, led him to collect information and objects related to Sardinian musical culture, and therefore to constitute a collection of 400 objects, including Sardinian and Mediterranean musical instruments, devices and sound toys and other materials related to the island’s musical culture (CDs, audio cassettes, 45 rpm records, books, scores).
This knowledge and training has allowed him to be present in the processes of recovery and enhancement of the Sardinian language and culture, with CONFERENCES, WORKSHOPS, WORKSHOPS, SEMINARS, CONFERENCES, RESEARCH and CONCERTS carried out for schools of all levels and for the population. in collaboration with local bodies and administrations (associations, organizations, municipalities, provinces, regions).
His work as a composer has found in collaborations with the island’s theater companies an effective partnership and communions of purpose that have allowed him to express and fully interpret the identity of the Sardinian people in an always original way.
He has been present in the main European festivals with the soundtrack for the PARISTORIA theater show produced by the Actores Alidos theater company.
In 1999, thanks to a contribution from the Municipality of Cagliari – Department of Culture, he published THE NEW LAUNEDDAS – Catalog of sounds, with an audio CD attached: a work that contains part of the results of his research on launeddas or on new execution techniques to be elaborate him.
TNL, the research on launeddas, led him to be invited, even outside Sardinia, to present his work, in Egypt (representing the Conservatory of Music “GP da Palestrina of Cagliari at the Rencontre ’96 des Ecoles de Musique de la Mediterranèe organized by ECUME (FR) in Alexandria of Egypt), in Spain (at the IV FESTIVAL INTERCELTICU organized by ESBARDU in Aviles, Asturias, year 2000), in Palermo (THE NEW LAUNEDDAS, Agricantus, year 2000).
In his musical compositions he often draws from the immense ethnomusical heritage of Sardinia by carrying out parallel paths of experimentation and research. One of these paths resulted in a musical work called MEDITERRANEA, strongly linked to rhythm, melody and so-called contaminations, mixes of different musical genres such as ethnic, jazz and chamber music.
Other paths instead are marked by the stamp – as in THE NEW LAUNEDDAS, a project funded by the Municipality of Cagliari and the Autonomous Region of Sardinia, in collaboration with the Conservatory of Music of Cagliari and other entities, including conferences, workshops, concerts and a publication entitled THE NEW LAUNEDDAS – New sounds for launeddas signed by Maurizio Puxeddu – and on the possibilities of timbre variation of traditional Sardinian instruments, with different and innovative playing possibilities and the suggestion of the story.
In his musical compositions he often draws from the immense ethnomusical heritage of Sardinia and the Mediterranean, carrying out parallel paths of experimentation and research.
His latest creations (2020/2021) concern the fusion of artistic disciplines, such as music and dance, for example in Abbasalìa – Stories from the wind and the sea, a project strongly linked to rhythm, melody and so-called contaminations, mixtures of different musical genres such as ethnic, jazz and classical music. Other paths, on the other hand, are marked by the possibilities of timbre variation of traditional Sardinian instruments, by the different and innovative execution possibilities and by the suggestion of the story.
He has created and presents the musical column MUSIC AND SOUNDS FROM THE WORLD from November 2020, every Friday evening in the television program CASA MARCELLO NIGHT by Marcello Cirillo, which is broadcast on TELE MIA, BRIXIA CHANNEL, BUSSENTO CHANNEL, ITALIA2TV and live WEB CASA MARCELLO NIGHT .
He conceived and produced the program UNDAS-Percorsi dell’arte to promote and enhance artistic realities and give space to artists and cultural initiatives.
In 2021 he founded together with Silvia Layla (dancer) and other musicians the musical formation SOLILUNA, which deals with music and dance developing a show with original music for baritone guitar (a sort of derivation of the Sardinian guitar) and many other ethnic instruments; also in 2021 he created the show “SHARDAN-Il popolo del mare” whose theme is the musical story of a mythical people whose origin is geographically ascribed to Sardinia.
Recently he founded, together with Cinzia Merletti (percussion) and Filiò Sotiraki (voice and qanun), the musical formation TARABEDDAS, which deals with Mediterranean music.