In the courts of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, vocal and instrumental music fulfilled a fundamental function in accompanying social occasions, from banquets to parties to elaborate performances.
The compositions of Marco Facoli, Francesco Bendusi, Giovanni Picchi, Jacopo Peri and Giuseppino Cenci, guide us in exploring the dialogue between the gestures and affections of language with those of dance.
ENSEMBLE STRADELLA Y-PROJECT
Andrea De Carlo, viola da gamba and conducting
Antonio Amato, Irene Caraba, viola da gamba
Hamlet Matteucci, violone
Johannes Festerling, Claudio Martin Poblete, theorbo and baroque guitar
Francesco Magarò, percussion
Roberto Mattioni, tenor
Chiara Marani, soprano
Lucia Adelaide Di Nicola, harpsichord and organ
STRADELLA Y-PROJECT – BIOGRAPHY.
It was founded in 2011 as a tool for training and professional insertion for young singers and instrumentalists through the study and performance of the Baroque repertoire of Lazio composers and in particular of Alessandro Stradella, one of the most interesting and surprising musicians of all time, whose language is a powerful and ideal teaching tool but also a link between educational and professional experience, between the legacy of the past and the development of the artists of the future.
ANDREA DE CARLO – BIOGRAPHY
Andrea De Carlo was born in Rome where he began his career as a jazz double bassist, graduating in double bass and viola da gamba and earning a degree in physics from the Sapienza University of Rome. In 2005 he founded the Ensemble Mare Nostrum, mainly devoted to the music of the Roman Baroque and in particular the music of Alessandro Stradella. After the ensemble’s first award-winning releases, De Carlo founded “The Stradella Project,” a record collection of Alessandro Stradella’s complete works (ARCANA/OUTHERE), and founded a Festival of Early Music dedicated to the Nepesine composer. As a conductor, among others, De Carlo has conducted the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra of Parma, the orchestra of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa, and I Cameristi della Scala in Milan.