Biography

In addition to his activities as Founder-Director of the ensemble Concerto Italiano, Rinaldo Alessandrini is renowned as a recitalist on the harpsichord, fortepiano and organ, and is considered one of the most authoritative interpreters of Monteverdi and the baroque repertoire worldwide. His profound knowledge and love of the Italian repertoire is naturally reflected in programmes in which he seeks to reproduce the essential, but often elusive, expressive and cantabile elements so fundamental to Italian music in the 17th and 18th centuries. 

He has performed in Japan, Canada, USA and throughout Europe with the world’s leading orchestras, such as the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Freiburger Barockorchester, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, Italian Radio Orchestra,  Munich Radio Orchestra, Copenhagen Radio Orchestra, Portland Baroque Orchestra, Liverpool Royal Philharmonic, Melbourne Symphony, Washington Symphony, New World Symphony Orchestra in Miami, Orchestra of Santiago Opera House (Chile), Toulouse Capitole Orchestra, San Francisco Symphony, Basel Kammerorchester, Seattle Symphony, Geneva Chamber Orchestra, Bergen Philharmonic, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, Staatskapelle Dresden and Tokyo Philharmonic, to name a few.
 
In addition to numerous concerts with his ensemble Concerto Italiano, recent engagements include Handel’s “Rinaldo” at the Handel Festival in Karlsruhe 2025, “Giulio Cesare” at Opera di Roma and at Tokyo’s New National Theatre, concerts with the Orchestra of the Handel & Haydn Society in Boston, as well as concert tours in France with the Orchestre de l’Opera de Rouen Normandie and in Germany with the Munich Radio Orchestra.

Future engagements include Handel's "Alcina" at Opera di Roma and concerts in Rome and Mannheim.

His recordings (for Naive, Astrèe, Arcana, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi) include not only Italian music, but Bach and his contemporaries as well. Alessandrini has garnered the highest critical plaudits including five Gramophone Awards, two Grand Prix du Disque, three Deutscher Schallplattenpreis, Prix Caecilia, the Premio Cini and four Midem Awards in Cannes.

Rinaldo Alessandrini was nominated Chevalier dans l’ordre des Artes et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture and together with Concerto Italiano he was awarded the Italian music critics’ prestigious Premio Abbiati. 
In addition, he is “accademico” of the Accademia Filarmonica Romana and Accademia di Santa Cecilia.

Download english biography as PDF file 
Download german biography as PDF file 
Download complete artist info as PDF file  

Management

General Management

Artist Manager
 
 
 
 Ingunn Sighvatsdóttir
Artist Manager
ingunn@orlob.net 
Mobil: +49-173-2 067 821
 

Press

 

Alcina / Teatro dell'Opera di Roma /
21.03.25 / bachtrack.com


"The Orchestra del Teatro dell'Opera was superbly conducted by Baroque expert Rinaldo Alessandrini, with the use of period instruments" 

Alcina / Teatro dell'Opera di Roma /
21.03.25 / Le Salon Musical


"Lo spettacolo magnifico, sinora il migliore della stagione, molto deve all'impeccabile direzione di un maestro come Rinaldo Alessandrini, massimo conoscitore del repertorio barocco, che nell'ottobre 2023 aveva già guidato l'Orchestra del Costanzi nel Giulio Cesare, altro capolavoro di Händel, per la regia di Damiano Michieletto, e quest'anno riconquista il pubblico romano grazie alla stupenda regia di Pierre Audi." 

Alcina / Teatro dell'Opera di Roma /
21.03.25 / giornaledellamusica.it


"Per ottenere questo livello della realizzazione musicale è stata fondamentale la direzione di Rinaldo Alessandrini, che ha dato un bel risalto a tanti passaggi orchestrali, ottenendo dall' orchestra del teatro - ovviamente in formato ridotto: trenta elementi, più o meno come l'orchestra di Händel - una risposta esemplare, tanto che era difficile credere che questi strumentisti avessero, tranne tre o quattro eccezioni, pochissima esperienza della musica barocca.
Alessandrini ha lavorato meravigliosamente anche e sopratutto con le voci, non limitandosi ad accompagnarle nel senso riduttivo che si dà generalmente a questo termine, ma sostenendole e guidandole, con tempi, dinamiche e colori espressivi di straordinaria bellezza." 

News

Un Rinaldo doppio, per favore!
This year's Karlsruhe Handel Festival will be opened by international baroque expert and most welcome guest in Karlsruhe, Rinaldo Alessandrini - with a work which is more than fitting! The opening production is Handel's ‘Rinaldo’; the first opera that the baroque master wrote during his time in London. The festive opening premiere takes place on 21 February with Maestro Alessandrini conducting the Badische Staatskapelle. The production is staged by Hinrich Horstkotte.

All performance dates: 21/23/26 February & 01/04 March 2025

During the festival, among other things, also the revival of Handel's ‘Siroe’ can be experienced, which premiered in Karlsruhe last season and will once again be conducted by Attilio Cremonesi.

Further information about 'Rinaldo':
www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de/ ... 

Further information about the 47th Internationale Handel Festival Karlsruhe:
www.staatstheater.karlsruhe.de/ ... 
Download (High Resolution) 
X
loading...