Baroque Lumina, Giacomo Benedetti & Giacomo Granchi
Biography Baroque Lumina, Giacomo Benedetti & Giacomo Granchi
Rossana Bertini
obtained her diploma in Lyric Art at the Conservatorio Francesco Morlacchi (Perugia).
She has performed with some of the foremost early music groups of Europe, including Europa Galante (Fabio Biondi), Concerto Italiano (Rinaldo Alessandrini), Complesso Barocco (Alan Curtis), Ensemble Aurora (Enrico Gatti), Ensemble Baroque de Nice (Gilbert Bezzina), Le Parlement de Musique (Martin Gester), Akâdèmia (Francoise Lasserre), Modo Antiquo (F.M.Sardelli), Ensemble Elyma (Gabriel Garrido), La Risonanaza (Fabio Bonizzoni) and La Venexiana (Claudio Cavina) further afield.
She has performed, in prestigious festivals, opera houses and concert halls in the USA, South America, Japan, Israel and throughout Europe. She has frequently broadcast for European radio stations, including Radio France, RAI, BBC, WDR, ÖRF, RTSI.
She has recorded numerous CDs for well known labels (Opus 111, Glossa, Arcana, Tactus), obtaining many international prizes, such as the Gramophone Award, Diapason d’Or, Prix Cecilia, Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik, Palmares des Palmares, Cannes Classical Award, Grand Prix du Disque, Premio Vivaldi della Fondazione Cini (Venice).
In 2009, together with her fellow singers Giuseppe Maletto and Daniele Carnovich, she founded the ensemble La Compagnia del Madrigale. They record madrigals of the Renaissance for Glossa (Madrid).
Ms Bertini teaches opera singing at the Accademia Musicale Alta Valdera (Pisa) and Renaissance and Baroque singing at Pistoia Musica Antica.
Elena Cecchi Fedi
The soprano Elena Cecchi Fedi received her diploma in singing and vocal music from the Luigi Cherubini Conservatory in Florence and subsequently received a diploma in organ and organ composition from the G B Martini Conservatory in Bologna. She has sung as a soloist at many prestigious venues, both in Italy and elsewhere, including the Teatro Regio, Turin; the Teatro Massimo, Palermo; the Teatro Vittorio Emanuele, Messina; the Teatro Verdi, Pisa; the Teatro Stabile, Potenza; the Opera Barga Festival; the Teatro Ponchielli, Cremona; the Teatro Sociale in Mantua; the Teatro di Sabbioneta and the Jomadas Gulbenkian de Musica Antigua in Lisbon; the Ambraser Schloßkonzerte, Innsbruck; the Opéra Comique in Paris; the Centre de Musique Baroque, Versailles; the Ambronay and Beaune festivals; the Accademia Chigiana in Siena; and the Accademia di Santa Cecilia in Rome. She has also appeared in concert with the Orchestra della Toscana; the Amici della Musica in Modena and in Florence; at the San Maurizio concerts in Milan, at the Konzerthaus in Vienna; and at the Konzerthaus in Berlin. In 1994 she was awarded the Boris Christoff prize. She regularly collaborates with Auser Musici, with whom she has made many recordings and performed frequently in concert.
Giacomo Benedetti
has studied Organ and Organ Composition in the conservatory “Lorenzo Cherubini” in Florence with Mariella Mochi and graduated with G. Libertucci obtaining master's degree with lode in Organo al Conservatorio “L.Cherubini “ with M.o Giovanni Clavorà Braulin and the Post-Gradum( con lode ) in Organo Antico to the PIMS a Roma with M.o Del Sordo; he studied with Matteo Imbruno, organist of the Oude Kerk in Amsterdam, following Masterclasses in Amsterdam. He is attending the last year of Harpsichord Master Studies with M.o Alfonso Fedi and the master course of baroque praxis in Fiesole conservatory with prominent figures of ancient music concertists: e.g. F. M. Sardelli, B. Hoffman, P. Cantamessa e G. Nuti. He is titular organist in San Miniato al Monte Basilica and in the church of Santa Felicita in Florence. He has worked and still work as official harpsichord accompanist and as organist for many institutions (Teatro del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Florence Conservatory of music L. Cherubini, Fiesole conservatory) and in many occasions (Passeggiata Organistica a palazzo Pitti nel 2016). He took part in many organ and piano competitions winning first prizes and placements. He performs concerts as Organist, Pianist, Harpsichordist and Choir Director in various contexts: International organ festival of La Verna; Japan (Yokohama ) in the “Festival Barock” as cymbalist soloist ; XIV Festival of Ancient, Renaissance and Baroque Music in Querètaro (Mexico) , Malta (International Organ Festival), Hartford (U.S.A.) with the Connecticut Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, International Organ Accademy of Pistoia; Haendel's soloist concerts for organ and orchestra with the Regional orchestra Val d'Arno; Anton Bieber's Sonatas for harpsichord and violin; in Munich for the bavarian radio; concerts in Ausburg in the Rokokolossal and in Ausburg's Cathedral in duo and in trio with organ and piano; in Helsinki for the Italian Institute in Finland; in Turku, in the Cathedral and in the National Theatre; university's choir in Florence; inauguration concerts of Legri's organ in Calenzano with a CD recording for Calenzano's municipality. He also directed in many concerts J. S. Bach’s motets in Florence.
