Akademie Versailles 2024: Baroque orchestra

Baroque orchestra

Tutor:  

Alessandro Tampieri 

Akademie Versailles is an international educational project aimed at the interpretation of French Baroque music and its period performance practice. The project is organized by Collegium Marianum in collaboration with the Prague Conservatoire, the French Institute in Prague and the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles (CMBV). It is part of a long-term partnership between the Summer Festivities of Early Music in Prague and the CMBV, whose task it is to preserve and promote French Baroque music.

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Born in Ravenna, Alessandro Tampieri began his musical studies in his home town, joining the Baroque orchestra Accademia Bizantina at a very young age. He collaborates with e.g. Il Giardino Armonico, L’Arpeggiata, Imaginarium and Il Suonar Parlante and regularly performs in the most prestigious European and American early music festivals. Alessandro Tampieri has made recordings for Teldec, Decca Records, Naïve, Harmonia Mundi, Hyperion, Virgin Records and for major European and North American radio stations. 

Since 2011, he has been a concert master of Accademia Bizantina. He teaches at the Conservatorio Statale di Musica Gioachino Rossini in Pesaro. He plays a violin made in 2014 by Marco Minnozzi.