Alessandro De Marchi (conductor)

Alessandro De Marchi (born 1962 in Rome ) is an Italian conductor and harpsichordist who was known especially for his interpretations of Baroque music. He is director of the orchestra Academia Montis Regalis ( Mondovi ) and since 2010 artistic director of the Innsbruck Festival of Early Music since 1998.

Life

De Marchi studied at the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia in Rome organ and composition at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, harpsichord, chamber music and baroque performance practice. After that he worked as a conductor at the Staatsoper Unter den Linden (Berlin) and as an assistant at the Salzburg Festival.

De Marchi has performed at the Semperoper (Dresden), the Opéra National de Lyon, La Scala in Milan, at the Théâtre de la Monnaie (Brussels), the Teatro San Carlo ( Naples), the Oslo Opera House, Teatro Regio (Turin ), the theater an der Wien (Vienna), the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino (Florence), the Hamburg State Opera and Rossini in Wildbad ( Bad Wildbad ). As a guest, he has conducted the Concertgebouw Orchestra (Amsterdam), the Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia (Rome), the Vienna Symphony Orchestra, the NDR Radio Philharmonic and the Staatskapelle Berlin.