PERFORMERS
Linda Przybiernow
Australian-born baroque violinist, Linda Przybiernow, was enticed into the world of early music during the final stages of completing her diploma in violin, after being inspired by Barbara Jane Gilby and Geoffrey Lancaster. She pursued this passion, gleaning new skills from Paul Wright, Julia Fredersdorff, and Rachael Beesley and making use of all available resources in Australia, such as workshops and summer courses with Latitude 37 and Ironwood Chamber Ensembles, playing with various early music ensembles, and organizing opportunities to perform concerts.
In 2011, she set more distant goals and followed these dreams to Italy to study with Stefano Montanari at the Milano Civica Scuola di Musica. While in Italy, she takes opportunities to expand her experience, attending masterclasses and summer courses (such as Accademia musicale della Annunciata Abbiategrasso and Urbino Corso Internazionale di Musica Antica, Italy, Curso de Musica Antigua di Daroca, Spain, Accademia Bizantina Masterclass, Italy, Tafelmusic Baroque Summer Institute, Canada, Wallfisch Band Masterclass in Perugia, Italy, and for viola d'amore, the Internationales Seminar für Alte Musik in Zell, Austria) and working with Enrico Onofri, Eliza Citterio, Elizabeth Wallfisch, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Suzanne Scholz, Luca Guglielmi, Alfredo Bernadini, François Fernandez, Antonio Frigé, Diego Fratelli and Jeanne Lamon. She has performed in the MITO festival of Milan, the Festival Rovereto, and plays with Orchestra Verdi Barocca, Arcomelo Ensemble, Ensemble Pian & Forte, Orchestra Barocca della Scuola Civica and many other ensembles and early music orchestras in Italy.
In 2012, Linda formed the ensemble, Consonanze Stravaganti, which performs concerts in Italy and Switzerland. She is also the violinist of De Sphaeris, another new early music ensemble, combining music and baroque dance.
Nicola Paoli
Nicola Paoli commenced cello studies with R. Rebaudengo and completed his diploma in 2009 from the Conservatorio N. Paganini of Genova, under the guidance of M. Ronchini. He performs extensively as soloist, in chamber music, symphonies, lyric or comic operas, CD recordings, soundtracks, films and documentaries. Together with pianist Emanuele Delucchi he has worked on a project of repertoire for cello and piano. From 2009 to 2014, he has been studying baroque cello with Gaetano Nasillo at the Milano Civica Scuola di Musica. He has attended masterclasses by Charles Rosen, Barthold Kuijken, Diego Fratelli. He has played in concerts as principle violoncellist or as a soloist with Stefano Montanari, Antonio Frigé, Shari Rhoads, Roberto Balconi, Marcello Gatti, Alfredo Bernardini, Lorenzo Ghielmi, and Carlo De Martini. From 2010 to 2012, he attended early music summer course, "Manuel De Falla" at Granada with Jaap Ter Linden, Catherine Manson, Wilbert Hazelzet and Corrado Bolsi. Nicola collaborates with various artists and groups such as Marco Zambelli, Arcantico Ensemble, under the direction of the violinist Cinzia Barbagelata, Concerto Ecclesiastico, Arcomelo, Cimento degli Affetti, Il Convinto Armonico, Baschenis Ensemble, Milano Classica, laVerdi Barocca, Accademia Hermans, among others. He is the violoncellist of the young, emerging AbChordis Ensemble, dedicated principally to the discovery of unedited Italian music. In april 2013, he passed the audition to join of European Union Baroque Orchestra, with several tourneés in the most important European festivals of early music, under the direction of Lars Ulrik Mortenssen, Stefano Montanari and Gottfried von der Goltz (in 2014, there are tours programmed with Rachel Podger and Sergio Azzolini). In september 2014, he begins a master degree at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Cristophe Coin.
Andrea Antonel
Andrea Antonel he started his musical education at 10 years old as a chorister, then with the study of classical guitar. This choral and vocal ensemble experience acted as a springboard to appreciating the renaissance and baroque repertoire. The decision to go deeper with this music was formed, during the study of early plucked string instruments in Venice Conservatorio “B.Marcello” under Tiziano Bagnati, and he graduated his “Compimento Inferiore” in 2009, taking the highest award in renaissance lute. He is currently completing his studies with Rolf Lislevand in the Trossingen Musikhochschule, where he follows courses of medieval music practices, theory and notation with Kees Boeke and Claudia Caffagni. He has attended courses and masterclasses on the lute with Paul O'dette and Jacob Lindberg, on vocal technique with Andreana Galante, and chamber music with Sigiswald Kuijken. He performs solo concerts on the renaissance lute (late Italian and Flemish renaissance) and on the theorbo (early XVII century Italian and XVII century French). He collaborates with various ensembles of vocal and instrumental chamber music and orchestras playing basso continuo. He is cofounder of the ensemble Consonanze Stravaganti, has worked with Ring Around Quartet, Cappella Altoliventina, Rossoporpora Ensemble, Arco Antiqua, Coro S. Antonio Abate taking part in concerts, radio transmissions, recordings for Classic Voice and Tactus, also performing solo concerts according to the practices of voice and lute repertoire from the Italian early XVII century. He has given concert-conferences on the connection between music and love lyrics of the XII and XIII century from Troubadours and Trouvères, singing and playing the accompaniment on the psaltery.