Michele Benuzzi

Michele Benuzzi
www.michelebenuzzi.org.uk
CONCERT 9 VIII 2014 LISBOA
Programme
Michele Benuzzi: harpsichord
J. Ferrer
(1745-1815)
Sonata in Do minore (Poco Allegro)
Sonata in Do maggiore (Allegro)
R.Ferreñac
(1763-1832)
Tempo de minue con variazioni
J.Gallés
(1758-1836)
Sonata II in Si b maggiore (Allegro)
Sonata VIII in Sol minore (Presto)
D.Scarlatti
(1685-1757)
Sonata in La maggiore K 208 (Adagio)
Sonata in La maggiore K 209 (Allegro)
G.B.Platti
(1700-1763)
Sonata quarta in La minore Op. 4
Allegro, Adagio, Allegro Assai
C.Seixas
(1704-1742)
Sonata in Re minore (Allegretto)
Sonata in La maggiore (Allegro)
J.Gallés
Sonata IX in Do minore (Allegretto)
Sonata XVI in Fa minore (Allegro)
Michele Benuzzi studied harpsichord with Ottavio Dantone and obtained the harpsichord Performing
Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London. He also studied musicology at the University of
Pavia.
He attended master classes with Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Andreas Staier, Andrea Marcon, Bob van
Asperen, Ketil Haugsand, Jaques Ogg, Jan Whillelm Jansen, Christine Whiffen, and Luigi Ferdinando
Tagliavini. He was awarded scholarships for three consecutive years by Institución Fernando el
Católico of Zaragoza, (Spain) where he followed courses on the seventeenth and eighteenth-century
Iberian repertoire with Professor J. L. González Uriol.
In 2003 he won the third prize at the seventeenth Yamanashi International Harpsichord Competition in
Japan.
He performs in Italy and abroad as soloist and with different groups of chamber musicians, and he is
invited to perform as soloist by different Italian orchestras. He plays for important music organizations
such as Serate Musicali in Milan, the Festival of Aix en Provence, the Festival of Arles, Musica e
Poesia a San Maurizio in Milan, Festival di musica antica in Massa e Carrara, the Foundation Querini
Stampalia in Venice, the Castle of Annecy, the Bach Festival in Modena, Società dei Concerti in Milan,
Tiroler Festspiele in Austria, Música Antigua de Daroca in Spain, Festival Internacional en el Camino
de Santiago in Spain, the Tochigi Kuranomachi Early Music Festival in Japan, the Hakuju Hall in
Tokyo, the Esplanade Hall in Singapore, Festival di Musica antica a Magnano, Spring Early Music
Festival Melbourne, Australia, Ballarat Goldfields Festival Australia, Murray River International Music
Festival, Australia, Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand,
Handel House in London , Russell Collection in Edinburgh, Festival Contemporaneamente Barocco in
Siena, Elsinore Baroque in Denmark.
He promoted, and played with other harpsichordists, the opera omnia of Domenico Scarlatti's Sonatas,
which were performed from 1995 to 2002 in France.
He has founded Arcomelo, a group performing seventeenth and eighteenth-century music, and
examining baroque music - especially problems concerning execution on ancient instruments. A great
deal of effort goes into recovering and executing music from unedited manuscripts in European
libraries.
With Arcomelo he has recorded the harpsichord concertos by C.Ph.E.Bach for “La Bottega Discantica”
and the CD had excellent reviews. In 2007 he recorded the harpsichord concertos and symphonias by
W.F.Bach. Recently has be released a CD with all the Vivaldi’s Flautino and Flauto Concertos with
Mitsuko Ota. The CD had a nomination in the Japanese “The record Geijutsu magazine” (May 2013)
As soloist he had recorded Scarlatti's Sonatas using the 1764 Hass instrument in the Russell Collection
in Edinburgh. For “London Independent Records” a CD "Hamburg 1705" with music by Händel,
Graupner and Mattheson recorded using the harpsichord made by Daniel Dulcken around 1730 in the
Barnes Collection. For Brilliant Classics he had recorded J.W.Hässler with an harpsichord by Robert
Falkener London 1773 by kind permission of the Russell Collection.
All his solo recording where acclaimed by international magazine, and Hässler’s CD won the 5 stars
price in “Musica” (July, August 2012)
In 2011 he recorded with Arcomelo the Six Collection of chamber music and solo harpsichord music
by J.A.Benda in a 6 CD box.
Next projects with Brilliant Classics will be the complete Ch.Nichelmann Sonatas, the Sonatas by
J.Galles on the 1758 Antunes harpsichord at the Music Museum in Lisboa and next year the complete
J.W.Hassler keyboard music in 10 CD.
He is appreciate for the expressiveness of his performance and for the beautiful quality of his tone
production.

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