Pedro Memelsdorff

Pedro Memelsdorf brings all of the right what to modern early music efficiency: excellent schooling; an excellent collaborative approach, nature, and energy; and comprehensive research. Delivered in Buenos Aires in 1959, he emigrated to European countries in 1977, learning both on the Schola Cantorum in Basel, as well as the Sweelinck Conservatory in Amsterdam. One of is own initial professional collaborations in addition has been one of is own longest lived, dealing with Jordi Savall’s ensemble Hesperion XX from 1980; Memelsdorf started a similarly successful duo cooperation with Andreas Staier in 1982. In 1987, he founded the ensemble Mala Punica (Pomegranites), with which he provides released some extremely acclaimed recordings. He provides shaped the ensemble into a significant personalized performance device, crafting a vocal design based on an extremely careful usage of microtonal performing, microdynamics, and refined glissando results. Memelsdorf applies these virtuoso results to some of the very most incredible and complicated repertories: painstakingly explored applications of music through the Italian courts from the fourteenth hundred years, as well as the French music referred to as Ars subtilior. Likewise rich instrumental results in his use Mala Punica are based on his program of traditional improvisatory methods. His ensemble provides toured throughout European countries, and Memelsdorf himself performs in Israel and SOUTH USA. Pedro Memelsdorf’s executing life, much like the best of most early music artists, itself educates the globe by delivering neglected repertories in marvelous new lease of life. But Memelsdorf also proceeds other areas of his educational interest. He publishes frequently in the journal Recercare, and shows on the Civica Scuola in Milan. Furthermore, his intensive educational circuit will take him to workshops in Ars Nova music at many international musical establishments, like the conservatories of Bremen, Copenhagen, Leuven, Maastricht, and Tilburg, as well as the colleges of Buenos Aires, Oslo, and Royaumont.