President
Emilio Moreno
The violinist Emilio Moreno is one of Europe’s most distinguished performers of music from the baroque and classical periods and whose musical qualities are matched by the impact of his knowledge. Following studies in music and philosophy in his native Madrid, Moreno was taught by J. Schröder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis in Switzerland before taking a doctorate in musicology at the Universidad Autónoma of Barcelona. He has since had many years of practical experience around the world as a soloist, conductor and partner of the very best ensembles and musicians: Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, La Petite Bande, the Ensemble 415, La Chapelle Royale, Stravaganza Köln, leader of the viola section of Orchestra of the 18th Century etc.
As an eminent music researcher and musicologist, Moreno is contributing in a definitive way to the rediscovery of forgotten music from the Spanish baroque and classical periods. The outcome of his research can be heard in the many concerts and recordings he regularly produces with his ensembles La Real Cámara and, more recently, with his new period instrument orchestra, El Concierto Español. With La Real Cámara, Moreno (a founder of the Glossa label) has provided a survey of music from the times of the painter Francisco Goya, as well as notable discs devoted to the music of Luigi Boccherini (Los últimos tríos and Boccherini en Boadilla) in the company of artists such as Enrico Gatti, Wouter Müller and Gaetano Nasillo.
Moreno today teaches at the ESMUC (Escuela Superior de Música de Catalunya) in Barcelona, where he has the director of the Department of Early Music; He has also been an associate professor at the Geidai University of Arts in Tokyo, and regularly leads courses and gives master classes around the world.
Odile Edouard
Odile Edouard is a French violinist, who works primarily in the field of historical performance practice. She is a professor of baroque violin at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon. After winning first prize in violin from the CNRs of Lyon and Boulogne-Billancourt, Odile Edouard studied baroque violin with Chiara Banchini at the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva. She discovered the ancient repertoire and techniques and obtained her diploma in 1990. She then continued her studies with Enrico Gatti, Sigiswald Kuijken and John Holloway. Shortly after completing her studies, for about ten years, she took over Chiara Banchini’s baroque violin class in Geneva, before moving to the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Lyon.
After years of orchestral activities in ensembles such as Les Arts Florissants, Seminario Musicale, Les Musiciens du Louvre, the Aurora Ensemble, and Ensemble 415, to which Odile Edouard devotes her musical activity, Odile Edouard founded the ensemble Les Witches with Freddy Eichelberger, known for its improvisations on Shakespearean texts and interpretations of works from John Playford’s collection The English Dancing Master. As a member of the Alpbarock ensemble, she performed in 2008, under the title “Simelibärg,” a recording of old Swiss folk melodies for the Alpha label, notably with organist Yves Rechsteiner. Odile Edouard “pursues one goal in her musical research: to give each note its expressive role.
She strives to create vivid emotions in order to share them with her musician friends, her students, and her audience.” Since 2014 he has been spreading the practice of Renaissance “violin groups” with the ensemble “Les Sonadori”.
Odile Edouard has recorded for the labels Harmonia Mundi, Arcana, L’Empreinte Digitale, Hortus, Tactus, Adda, Sinfonia, K617, Alpha, Ligia, Passacaille.
François Fernandez
François Fernandez, whose parents were both musicians (Jazz and Classic), was born in Rouen.
While pursuing classic modern violin studies, he took up the baroque violin at the age of 11.
He studied with Sigiswald Kuijken in The Hague (Soloist Diploma, Royal Conservatory 1980) and soon became his teacher’s closest collaborator. At the age of 17 he entered in La Petite Bande and became as concertmaster in 1986.
At the same time, he worked with the best baroque orchestras of the epoch, most often as leader or soloist: The Orchestra of the 18th Century (F. Brüggen), La Chapelle Royale (Ph. Herreweghe), Melante 81 (B. van Asperen) and Les Arts Florissants (W. Christie). For the last 20 years, François Fernandez has devoted himself to chamber music. Not only as a violinist but also on violino piccolo, viola, viola d’amore, viola da gamba and violoncello da spalla.
As a chamber musician, he has participated worldwide at the most important festivals; he also appears as a conductor, invited by Finnish Baroque Orchestra, Orquesta de Cámara Valdivia in Chile, Orchestre Baroque de Nice, Theater Aachen and Bremer Barockorchester in Germany.
Romano Vettori
Romano Vettori had a classical education while studying piano, harpsichord and composition. He has a Degree in Musicology and a Doctorate in Musicology and Musical Heritage from Bologna University.
He has published essays in musicological journals and in series with an international distribution, and has made numerous transcriptions of sacred and secular music from the XVI-XVII centuries and the XVIII century.
His research concentrates on Renaissance and Baroque music history, in particular regarding Trentino and Northern Italy. In parallel with research, he is deeply involved in organization and musical performance, due to his role as Artistic Director of the Academy of Ancient Music of Rovereto (Euregiomusica Project – Bonporti Baroque Orchestra & Choir, Premio Bonporti International Baroque Violin Competition, Premio Ferrari International Fortepiano Competetition).
He conducts both in Italy and abroad and has recorded, mainly unpublished works, (Viadana, Cavalli, De Kerle) for Fonè, Stradivarius and Bongiovanni. Former professor of Musical history and aesthetics and of Choral conducting for music education in Italian Conservatories, he is the Archivist of the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna (founded in 1666).