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Stefano Demicheli

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He is Harpsichordist, organist, and conductor. He has served as assistant to René Jacobs and Maestro al cembalo for vocal soloists in numerous theatres across Europe. He began his musical studies at the age of thirteen under the guidance of Ottavio Dantone, later graduating from the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. Key milestones in his education include the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis and the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and Cologne, where he studied harpsichord with Emilia Fadini and Lars-Ulrik Mortensen, and organ with Lorenzo Ghielmi and Jean-Claude Zehnder.

Already during his student years, he was invited to perform with many prominent ensembles specializing in Baroque music across Europe and the Americas, including Il Giardino Armonico, Freiburger Barockorchester, Concerto Köln, I Barocchisti, Zefiro, Tafelmusik Baroque Orchestra, and Accademia Bizantina.

He is the conductor of ensemble La Tempesta (formerly Dolce & Tempesta) in Milan, and of Academia 1750 in Barcelona, where he was invited as artist-in-residence at the Festival de Músiques de Torroella de Montgrí. Since 2012, he has served as Music Director of Fondazione Pietà dei Turchini in Naples and its Baroque orchestra Talenti Vulcanici, and from 2025, he will also lead the choir La Stagione Armonica in Padua.

His rich concert activity has brought him to major international festivals and concert halls, performing as harpsichordist, soloist, and conductor. Over the years, he has collaborated with leading figures in the classical music world, such as Claudio Abbado, Riccardo Chailly, Corrado Rovaris, Gottfried von der Goltz, Ivor Bolton, Giovanni Antonini, Paul Goodwin, René Jacobs, and Ottavio Dantone.

He has appeared as a soloist at Teatro alla Scala in Milan and has been a frequent guest in the concert series organized by RAI at the Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome. His television appearances include national programmes such as ‘Passepartout’ (RAI 5), hosted by Philippe Daverio, and ‘Petruška’ (RAI 5), hosted by Michele Dall’Ongaro.

A passionate educator, he has been a faculty member since 1999 at the Corsi di Musica Antica in Urbino (FIMA) and regularly gives masterclasses for institutions including McGill University Conservatory in Montreal and Tafelmusik in Canada.

With Talenti Vulcanici, he has recorded extensively for the French label Arcana, and in 2019, received the Franco Abbiati Italian Critics Award for ‘Best Musical Initiative of the Year’. Since 2023, he has also held the position of Principal Guest Conductor for the Baroque Repertoire of the Albanian Armed Forces Orchestra in Tirana.

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