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DOMENICO MORGANTE

It is known internationally as one of the leading specialists in the Italian Renaissance and Baroque music. His studies (about one hundred) are published in leading magazines and major encyclopaedias (such as the Universal Encyclopedic Dictionary of Music and Musicians of UTET) and translated into several foreign languages.
Organ and harpsichord performer, was studied under Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and Colin Tilney, and has also studied with Gustav Leonhardt, Marie Claire Alain, Michael Radulescu, Peter Williams, Sergio Vartolo and Wijnand van de Pol
Graduated in organ and harpsichord, with a degree in Musicology, specializing in Science Education. As a researcher and philologist has worked on various musical projects in Europe, while conducting educational activity in the Conservatory and the University. Has performed the critical recovery and restoration of many early music compositions.
He has numerous recordings and various holdings in radio and television (it noteworthy are the recordings for RAI and Radio Vaticana). In the late sixties, was among the first in Italy to deal with philological interpretation of ancient music and the concert with historical instruments, quickly gaining a reputation of international renown, devoted several awards (New York, Leipzig, Utrecht, Tirana, Rome, Florence, Pistoia, Ferrara, Pesaro, Reggio Calabria, Martina Franca, etc..).
He directed the restoration of historical keyboard instruments (De Simone Cimino, Broadwood, Hoffman, etc..), collaborating on various occasions with the Ministry of Culture and Environment. He has also held teaching and research at the Institute of History of Music and the Aesthetics of the University of Bari
He was Professor of Musicology and performing practice in the Foundation "Niccolò Piccinni" in Bari and artistic director of the International Festival of Early Music, has taught many courses on interpretation of historical keyboards. By then, a historian, writer and composer, alongside a comprehensive business interpreter, performer and director of vocal and instrumental.
It was the first European researcher to study and publish musical relationships existed between Italy and Albania in the Age of the Renaissance. As musicologist must also rediscover historic very considerable importance for the author studied the Flemish madrigalist Jachet de Berchem.
He is the founder, director and harpsichordist of the ensemble of ancient music, "Accademia degli Armonici". Is Professor of Italian Language and Literature Academy and teaches in Organ Academy "Giacomo Insanguine" of Monopoli. For the relevance of its teaching activities in Organ he was awarded the prestigious Premio Abbiati Italian Music Critics (Fiesole, 2008).