Matteo Messori

Matteo Messori ( born April 23, 1976 in Bologna ) is an Italian harpsichordist, organist and conductor of early music.

Life

Matteo Messori studied in his hometown organ, organ composition and musicology. Subsequently, he studied harpsichord in the class of harpsichordist, organist, conductor and singer Sergio Vartolo at the conservatories in Mantua and Venice.

In 1998 he won the first prize in the national Harpsichord Competition " Gianni Gambi " in Pesaro and received other awards for his musical activities. He is active as a soloist on organ and harpsichord in Italy, Europe and America for years, with chamber music and symphonic groups. As a conductor, Messori has worked with Capella Cracoviensis at the Philharmonic of Cracow ( Bach's Christmas Oratorio ) and with the Chamber Orchestra of the Republic of Belarus at the Minsk Philharmonic. He conducted the first staged performance of the Italian Roman oratorio by Handel, La Bellezza ravveduta nel Trionfo del Tempo e del Disinganno. It is a production of the Sagra Musicale Malatesta in Rimini. As a conductor, he has conducted concerts in France, Italy, Germany and Russia. 2011, he has worked as a harpsichordist with the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra under Daniel Harding at the Vienna Konzerthaus and Cappella Augustana conducted in the great hall of the Philharmonic of St. Petersburg.

To explore the relationships in the music between Italy and Germany in the 16th and 18th centuries and to present them in performances, Messori founded the ensemble Cappella Augustana. With the ensemble, he took on sacred music by Vincenzo Albrici. His recording of Part Three of the Clavierübung by Johann Sebastian Bach on three historical Bach organs in Central Germany was seen with the award " 5 Diapason ".

2010 published several recordings as a soloist as well as with the " Cappella Augustana " for harpsichord: The Art of Fugue, Musical Offering and the unfinished Fugue BWV 1080/19, including the canonical changes on " Vom Himmel hoch I Come ", BWV 769, performed on the Trost organ in Walter Hausen ( 1724).

Messori has been actively researched in the field of Bach research and interpretation after the pedal harpsichord, Bach apparently was built for the Collegium Musicum in Leipzig, the organ builder Zacharias Hildebrandt.

In November 2011, wrote the German magazine Fono Forum. " The complete recording of Bach's late works is a statement with which the still young Italian harpsichordist and organist has played in the top league of international Bach interpreters This impression is strengthened in the [ ... ] complete recording of the third part of the " Clavier-Übung " ".

Messori has been professor of organ, harpsichord, basso on the " Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali G. Donizetti " in Bergamo and gives master classes and interpretation courses in different countries.

Discography (selection)

  • 2002: Vincenzo Albrici: Concerti sacri, Cappella Augustana - Label Mvsica Rediviva
  • 2008: 2 CDs Johann Sebastian Bach, third part of the Clavierübung - Brilliant Classics
  • 2010: 5 CDs Heinrich Schütz Edition Vol 4, Cappella Augustana - Brilliant Classics
  • 2010: 3 CDs Johann Sebastian Bach The Art of Fugue - Musical Offering - some canonical changes - Brilliant Classics
  • 2011: 2 CDs Johann Sebastian Bach Leipzig 8 Preludes and Fugues - Schübler chorales - Brilliant Classics
  • 2011: 1 CD Luzzasco Luzzaschi - complete works for keyboard instruments - Brilliant Classics
  • 2012: 3 CDs Johann Caspar Kerll - complete works for keyboard instruments - Brilliant Classics
  • 2012: 1 CD Johann Sebastian Bach - Inventions and Sinfonias ( clavichord )
Organ repertoire Canon (music) Waltershausen
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