About
Paola Bonora is a professional musician and founder of HORA. She studied chamber music and flute performance at the the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris and is proud to be the first ever Italian to be awarded the highest honour of Premier Prix in both disciplines.
Coming from a long line of artists, her grandfather, Giuseppe Bonora, was a violin-maker while her father, Gustavo Bonora, was a painter and a free jazz musician. Because of this, Paola grew up in an environment that encouraged her to express herself artistically through languages both timeless and lost to time. Passing through the contemporary creations of Pierre Boulez and Philippe Glass to the fourteenth-century musical revolution of Ars Nova, Paola’s musical experience and expertise moves through time and through many distant eras.
Coming from a long line of artists, her grandfather, Giuseppe Bonora, was a violin-maker while her father, Gustavo Bonora, was a painter and a free jazz musician. Because of this, Paola grew up in an environment that encouraged her to express herself artistically through languages both timeless and lost to time. Passing through the contemporary creations of Pierre Boulez and Philippe Glass to the fourteenth-century musical revolution of Ars Nova, Paola’s musical experience and expertise moves through time and through many distant eras.
She has been involved in the reconstruction and execution of many operatic works by Gaetano Donzietti, as well as in the restoration of the original nineteenth-century instruments upon which the pieces were played. Paola is well-versed in historical performance and has performed Baroque, Classical, and Romantic pieces on period-accurate instruments. She has also decoded fourteenth-century manuscripts and has performed on instruments reconstructed from iconographic images.
She recently recorded the ballads of Francesco Landini – pieces written in 1370 and left unperformed for almost 700 years – and, circling back to contemporary music, performed La Guerra dei Suoni live at the Palazzo Reale in Milan to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Futurist art.
She recently recorded the ballads of Francesco Landini – pieces written in 1370 and left unperformed for almost 700 years – and, circling back to contemporary music, performed La Guerra dei Suoni live at the Palazzo Reale in Milan to celebrate the centenary of the birth of Futurist art.