Ura Teatro / Redi Hasa

Redi Hasa
Born in Tirana in '77, he arrived in Puglia in '98, immediately conquering the popular revival scene. In his music, the rigor of classical training merges with the immediacy of traditional repertoires, developing an approach to a hybrid and mixed sound, which has characterized him over the years. In 2012 at Notte della Taranta festival, he met Ludovico Einaudi, who engaged him in his ensemble and with whom he has performed on stages around the world for over a decade. Among his numerous collaborations, we mention the one with Robert Plant (Led Zeppelin).
At the same time, he continues his solo career, recording two albums for cello.

In 2019, he signed the unreleased project "Bach is Back", which ideally places the master of masters of classical music in dialogue with traditional Albanian polyphonic singing that is UNESCO heritage. Throughout his twenty-year-old career, he has played, among others, with the Italian Popular Orchestra, King Naat Veliov, Kocani Orkestra, Ambrogio Sparagna, Mauro Pagani, Rita Marcotulli, and Pacifico.

In 2020, he released his first solo album produced for Ponderosa Music & Art in collaboration with the prestigious Decca Records, which hosts international artists such as Mercan Dede, Alva Noto, Akin Sevgör, and Ludovico Einaudi himself. Tim Oliver recorded the album at Real World Studios.
“The Stolen Cello” is an ideal homage to his story as a migrant. The title refers to his escape to Italy with one of his most precious possessions, a "stolen" cello, temporarily stolen from the Academy of Tirana to take the entrance exam to the Conservatory of Lecce. The pieces are a touching and delicate crossing of Hasa's Albanian memories, from the imposing profile of Dajti, the mountain of Tirana, to the sea crossed to reach Italy and from the mass assault on the international embassies in 1990 to the cherry tree of his childhood’s garden.

Two years after "The Stolen Cello", the artist presents on tour his second solo album, "My Nirvana", in which he tells a piece of his own story: his encounter with rock and grunge music in the 90s, at the fall of the Albanian dictatorship, a few years before he decided to leave the country to reach Italy, Puglia.
The album consists of nine tracks that rework the most significant pieces of the famous band led by Kurt Cobain, "reinventing" the songs that marked a turning point in the history of the rock world and transforming them into new hymns.
During the live version, accompanied by Valerio Daniele (guitar and electronics), Hasa leads the cello to radical distortions and electronic experiments and opens himself up to exciting moments of improvisation.
He works on various soundtracks for cinema and theater. Among others, he composed the original music of the documentary "Parlate a bassa voce" (Speak quietly) by Esmeralda Calabria, presented at the Turin Film Festival 2022, and of which he is also the main protagonist. As a composer, his most recent work is the original soundtrack of a documentary on the artist Céline Dion signed by Irene Taylor, an important international production (Amazon/Sony) which will be officially presented in 2024 (for this reason, this confidential information should not be disclosed beyond this notice).
With Ludovico Einaudi, he also worked on soundtracks of prestigious international movies such as “Nomadland” by Chloé Zhao (winner of three Oscars in 2021), “The Father” by Florian Zeller, with Anthony Hopkins (awarded two Oscars, 2021), and “A cielo abierto” by Mariana and Santiago Arriaga, presented at the 2023 Venice Film Festival.