alessandro giangrande

countertenor​

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Alessandro Giangrande, tenor and countertenor, graduated with top marks in singing and violin from the Nino Rota Conservatory in his hometown of Monopoli. He has deepened his study of the baroque repertoire with internationally renowned teachers such as Maria Cristina Kiehr, Roberta Invernizzi, and Paul Esswood. He won the first absolute prize at the VI Spazio&Musica Baroque Singing Competition at the Conservatory of Vicenza, and his career stands out especially for the interpretation of works by Claudio Monteverdi. He has performed Orfeo at the Aix-en-Provence Festival and at the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, and has taken on the role of Ottone in L’incoronazione di Poppea at the Ambronay and MITO Settembre Musica festivals. He has worked with conductors such as Jordi Savall, René Jacobs, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Leonardo García Alarcón, and Christina Pluhar, performing at prestigious international venues like Carnegie Hall in New York, the Philharmonie in Paris, and the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. His discography includes works by Pergolesi and Cavalli, and maintains an intense activity in the performance of early, medieval, and baroque music.
 

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ORFEO FUTURO

Baroque ensemble

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ORFEO FUTURO is an ensemble with a variable geometry, ranging from a quartet to an orchestra. It brings together Italian and non-Italian musicians who specialize in performance practices with historical instruments, since 2010. It works on new and large-scale projects, sometimes even crossing old repertoires with new music. It has produced hundreds of concerts and numerous CDs, also in collaboration with other artists and groups. Among its most recent productions are: Around the Ground, L'Eredità di Arcangelo, Dancing Bass, Estimada Cantonada, which mixes Spanish Golden Age music with early 20th-century Latin American song; and Insight Lucrezia, a chamber opera with Nunzia Antonino, directed by Carlo Bruni, based on an original text by Antonella Cilento with electronic music by Gianvincenzo Cresta. Together with the vocal ensemble Spirito di Lione, it debuted in 2019 at the Venice Music Biennale. It regularly collaborates with the Anima Mea Festival in Bari and other cities in Apulia.