East–West is a musical dialogue between piano and bamboo flute, born from the meeting between pianist and composer Giovanni Sarani and Guo Yue, a Chinese bamboo flute master and a world-renowned figure for traditional oriental wind instruments.

The project explores the concept of landscape not only as a geographical place, but also as an interior and sonic space: natural environments, cultural memories, breaths, silences, and distant echoes that meet and transform each other.
East and West are not treated as opposing worlds, but as two languages that gradually recognize one another through sound.

The music unfolds through a balance of written material and free improvisation, leaving space for listening, resonance and mutual response. Piano and bamboo flute move between minimal gestures and extended textures, shaping a continuous flow that evolves in direct relation to the space, the acoustics and the moment. An essential dialogue in which the piano constructs harmonic horizons and the bamboo flute passes through them like an ancient voice, capable of evoking interior and natural landscapes.

East–West is conceived as an intimate and flexible concert format, particularly suited for:

• churches and sacred spaces
• historical venues and heritage sites
• theatres and festivals
• site-specific or landscape-related contexts

The project can include:

• solo moments for each performer
• a shared core section developed through live interaction
• short rehearsal or residency periods prior to the performance, allowing the music to grow organically in relation to the place

At its heart, East–West is an experience of deep listening: a suspended time where different traditions meet, not to merge into a single style, but to coexist, breathe and resonate together.