Enzo Fina was born in Salice, Lecce, Italy. With Roberto Catalano, he is a co-founder and principal in MusicBntica, which tours programs of Southern Italian music, food, and folklore around the country. He created and performs the soundscore for “Nightwind.”

Since his early days as a musician, playing a range of stringed and wind instruments as well as percussion, Enzo has been fascinated by the nature of sound. Such interest has brought him to develop an interdisciplinary approach to art, creating relationships between musical and visual arts. He extended his musical studies of acoustic properties of sound in instrument making as he was able to synthesize his findings in acoustics in the creation of his own instrument. In 1983, after studying the structure of an African mbira (thumb piano), he created a personal version of that instrument calling it most simply, fina. He teaches the creation of music-making instruments from found objects and uses many of these creations in performance.

Enzo holds a degree in painting from the State Institute of Art and Painting of the Academy of Fine Arts in Lecce and has been trained also in various arts such as dance, mime, puppeteering, construction and use of masks. He has worked with a variety of art groups and ensembles of diverse character and goals ranging from traditional music research to animation theater, film scoring, anthropological theater, and puppet shows in Italy, Spain, Portugal, Holland, Morocco, Canada, and the United States. He works as musician-in-residence at Childrens Hospital in Los Angeles, with the Pasadena Pops educational outreach program, and Creative Counseling Network.

Learn more at http://www.musicantica.org