Giovanni Cantarini

After studying philosophy at the Pontificia Universitas Gregoriana in Rome and graduating in classical philology in Bologna, Giovanni Cantarini deepened his knowledge of the art of historical singing at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Gerd Türk and Dominique Vellard and studied classical opera and concert repertoire in Cesena with Graziano Monachesi.

In addition to a busy schedule as a soloist and ensemble singer at major early music festivals, he is intensively involved with medieval monody, the Renaissance madrigal and the early Baroque cantata. In collaboration with Ulrich Pfeifer and Michel van Goethem, he founded the ensembles "Ad Organum faciendum" and "Alla Breve" with which he regularly performs and explores the repertoire from the first medieval to Flemish polyphony and the Bolognese Baroque.

He collaborates with the following ensembles and conductors: Ensemble Gilles Binchois (Vellard), Huelgas Ensemble (Van Nevel), La Morra (Marti-Gondko), Ensemble Perlaro (Donadini), La Venexiana (Cavina), Ensemble Melpomen (Steinmann), Per-sonat (Lutzenberger), Ensemble Phoenix Munich (Frederiksen). Many CDs document his activities.

As a solo singer to the kithara, he devotes himself in particular with C. Steinmann to the arrangement of ancient lyric poetry.

As a collaborator of Montserrat Figueras at the Instituto Superior de Musica in Barcelona and at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, he gave courses as an expert in poetry and Italian metrics.

He teaches Latin and Italian at secondary schools, an activity that allows him to deepen his interpretation of Italian vocal music from different eras through further literary studies.