Alessandro Quarta
musical director and founder of the renowned vocal and instrumental ensemble Concerto Romano, has dedicated himself to the rediscovery of Roman and Italian music of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. He regularly leads his ensemble on concert tours through Europe and the USA and has received outstanding reviews and awards for their recordings, such as the "Prix Caecilia" for the CD "Sacred music for the poor" in 2015 and the "Diapason d'or" for "La sete di Christo" by Bernardo Pasquini in 2016. Artistic collaborations and co-operations connect him with the Ensemble Emelthée from Lyon, the Boston Early Music Festival Ensemble, the Ensemble Blue Heron in Boston and the Consortium of the Carissimi Ensemble in Minneapolis for the modern premiere of the opera "Tirinto" by Bernardo Pasquini.

Guest conducting engagements currently take him to the Orchestra barocca nazionale dei Conservatori, the Kiel Theatre, the Teatro Comunale Claudio Abbado di Ferrara and the Reate Festival, where he has already performed Monteverdi's "Ritorno di Ulisse" and Melani's "L'empio Punito". He regularly teaches at the Hochschule für Musik und Tanz Köln, the Hochschule für Künste Bremen and the Civica Scuola di Musica Claudio Abbado in Milan, among others. Since 2019, he has been a lecturer at the Conservatorio E. F. Dall'Abaco in Verona. He has been teaching at the Fondazione Italiana Per la Musica Antica since 2007 and has been artistic director of the international FIMA Early Music Festival in Urbino since 2018.