as part of the Fabbrica Europa 2025 festival

Maria Chiara Argirò has been a central figure in the UK jazz, classical and electronic worlds since she moved to London from Rome over a decade ago. A skilled pianist since childhood, she’s collaborated with everyone from These New Puritans to Jono McCleery to Jamie Leeming alongside output with Moonfish. Her previous solo album, the stunning electronic jazz-fusion record Forest City, received widespread critical acclaim and was covered by the likes of The Guardian, Pitchfork, Vogue, and Rolling Stone. Her music has featured in the Netflix series, Elite, and she can count the likes of Four Tet and Gilles Peterson as fans, with the latter describing her music as “absolutely crazy good”.
The result of this journey, both sonic and personal, can be keenly felt on Closer. “While working on the music there was this strong feeling of getting, with every single note, closer and closer to the person I want to be,” she says. “I was like, this is my thing, this is my baby, I need to connect more with myself and the music and have this sort of conscious journey. To be free, curious and closer connected to the people I love. There is so much noise in this world, I think being direct, gentle, light, open and connected is the key.”

At Fabbrica Europa, Argirò will be joined by her musicians for a live performance enhanced by the performative contributions of dancer Klaudia Wittmann, the protagonist of the “Closer” music video.
Wittmann is a dancer, choreographer and researcher, and co-founder and co-director of KWAM Collective, a London-based group of interdisciplinary artists.
Klaudia has worked with various choreographers both nationally and internationally, including Sounding Motion Dance, Balbir Singh, Lara Ritosa-Roberts, Pascal Merighi, Moxie Brawl, Acrojou as well as being part of the creation of MAZE by Jasmin Vardimon and Turner Contemporary. Her professional experience further includes works for camera, both in feature and short films, including “Otto Floss – Freelance watcher” (2013), “Viscera: Autopsy of a (non)human Body” (2021), “SOMA” (2023), “Closer” (2024).

in collaboration with Lungarno