Alessandro De Marchi
The conductor Alessandro De Marchi specialises in performance practice on both historical and modern instruments, with a thoroughly researched repertoire comprising works by Monteverdi, Cavalli, Provenzale, Vivaldi, Broschi, Telemann, Handel, Keiser, Pergolesi, Hasse, Haydn, Mozart, Cimarosa, Paer, Bellini, Rossini, Donizetti, Mercadante, Verdi, Mascagni, Rachmaninoff. He is celebrating his twentieth anniversary on stage at the Semperoper Dresden and the Hamburg State Opera.
From 2009 to 2023, he succeeded René Jacobs as artistic director of the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, where he founded the Cesti Competition. He has conducted at the Beethovenfest Bonn and the Salzburg Festival. He has conducted the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the Orchestre National de France, the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Accademia di S. Cecilia in Rome, the Orchestra Sinfonica dell’Accademia della Scala, and the orchestras of NDR, SWR, HR and BR, and has recorded CDs with, amongst others, Franco Fagioli, Sonya Yoncheva, Cecilia Bartoli and Juan Diego Flórez. His Gluck album was awarded with the Echo Prize.