Alessandro Quarta
AUDITION: Audio/video required
COURSE LEVEL: Advanced
LESSON TIMETABLE: 10 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Programme:
Sala del Maniscalco: Italian repertoire from the 17th century for one, two, three, four and five voices and basso continuo.
Open class/recital on July 22nd at 5 p.m., at Oratorio della S. Croce.
Alessandro Quarta, conductor.
He performs mainly in Italy, Austria, Germany, Benelux, Switzerland, the United States and Mexico (Accademia Filarmonica Romana, Società del Quartetto, Sagra Musicale Umbra, Resonanzen – Wiener Konzerthaus, Philharmonie Köln, TAM – Herne WDR, Funkhaus Köln, Alte Musik Festtage Basel, Vesperalia Lugano, Boston Early Music Festival, Festival Cervantino – Guanajuato, Mexico, Monteverdi Festival – Cremona) receiving excellent reviews from the press, the Prix Caecilia 2015 for the CD “Sacred music for the poor” and the Diapason d'or in 2016 for the CD “La sete di Christo” by Bernardo Pasquini. He has also recorded, for Brilliant, ‘Soto, 20 laudi spirituali’ and received five stars from Musica magazine for the CD ‘Missing Vittorio’ (2024).
Guest conductor at the Teatro di Roma, Theater Kiel, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Oper Koeln, Deutsche Oper Berlin, Teatro Comunale di Ferrara.
His musical collaborations (guest conductor – coach – continuo player) include: Boston Early Music Festival ensemble, Consortium Carissimi of Minneapolis, Progetto Syntagma, Darmstaedter Barocksolisten, Ecclesia Nova of Verona, Blue Heron ensemble of Boston, Ensemble Voces Suaves of Basel, National Baroque Orchestra of Italian Conservatories. As coach: Ensemble Vocal du Luxembourg, Arnold Schoenberg Chor in Vienna.
From 2019 to 2025, he was professor of ensemble music at the early music department of the E. F. Dall'Abaco Conservatory in Verona, and collaborated as a professor with the HfK Bremen, HMT Cologne and the Juilliard School NYC.
Since 2018 he has been artistic director of the Urbino Musica Antica International Festival.
Since 2022, he has been president of the Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica.
