Giovanni Antonini

Recorder participant and conductor Giovanni Antonini is among the leaders from the Italian period device movement. He researched flute and recorder in his indigenous Milan, participating in the Civica Scuola di Musica for the reason that city as well as the Center de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. He became a respected recorder soloist, and provides made an appearance with Gustav Leonhardt, Christoph Gold coin, and Katia and Marielle Laboratoryèque. He frequently shows up at leading music celebrations and provides made several Western european tours, aswell as vacations to Malaysia, Japan, Canada, and america. In 1985, he became a founding person in Il Giardino Armonico (The Harmonic Backyard), a genuine equipment group founded in Milan with a select band of international-caliber period device players, most of whom graduated from several European colleges and conservatories after customized study in primary equipment technique and interpretation and in musical analysis. Il Giardino Armonico was among the first important original equipment ensembles in Italy, whose musical lifestyle had not been quick to accept the “authenticity” motion. Antonini and Il Giardino Armonico have already been credited with starting to raise curiosity about period efficiency in Italy. In 1989, Antonini became among the directors of the business and begun to carry out the ensemble. He provides directed their performances for the Teldec and London (Decca) brands, winning leading documenting awards, like the Diapason d’Or, Choc de la Musique, Grand Prix des Discophiles, the Gramophone Prize, the Echo-Preis, the Cecila Prize of Belgium, as well as the Fondazione Cini Prize of Venice. Their initial documenting, in 1992, earned the Vivaldi Record Award. Antonini’s performing of Il Giardino Armonico provides included shows of Baroque operas such as for example Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo, Handel’s Agrippina, and Pergolesi’s La Serva padrona. He’s also a normal conductor from the Settimane Bach of Milan and provides appeared as visitor conductor using the Tenerife Symphony Orchestra in the Canary Islands, the Salzburg Camerata Academica, as well as the Galicia Symphony Orchestra. He executed the oratorio Il martirio di San Lorenzo by Francesco Bartolomeo Conti on the Salzburg Celebration, its first efficiency today. In 2004, he executed the Berlin Philharmonic and toured using the Münchner Kammerorchester in 2008. Afterwards, he executed on recordings of Verdi’s I vespri siciliani and Vivaldi’s Ottone in villa.