Enrico Baiano

Enrico Baiano
Harpsichordist, clavichordist and fortepianist, is today considered one of the most complete and interesting interpreters on the ancient music scene.

In his interpretative approach, historical-stylistic rigor, expressive freedom and great virtuosity are wisely combined. He is one of the major scholars and interpreters of the music of the masters of the Neapolitan seventeenth century (Ascanio Mayone, Giovanni Maria Trabaci, Giovanni Salvatore, Gregorio Strozzi etc.), Girolamo Frescobaldi, Johann Jakob Froberger, Alessandro and Domenico Scarlatti, Johann Sebastian Bach. Other authors to whom he dedicates in-depth study are the Elizabethan virginalists, Henry Purcell, Louis Couperin, , Jean-Philippe Rameau, Carl Philip Emanuel Bach, Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, Muzio Clementi, Ludwig van Beethoven.
He has recorded various CDs for the 'Symphonìa' label (now being re-released for the Pan Classic and Glossa labels) and Stradivarius, all of which have been enthusiastically received by critics and have won several awards.
He has taken part in various Italian and foreign television and radio broadcasts and in two documentary films by director Francesco Leprino: "Sul nome B.A.C.H." and “A daring game” (on Domenico Scarlatti).

His most important publications are:
• Metodo per Clavicembalo (Ut Orpheus), translated into five languages (ENG, JP, FR, ESP, DEU).
• Le Sonate di Domenico Scarlatti (with Marco Moiraghi; LIM – Libreria Musicale Italiana).
• Il discorso musicale, in La narrazione al plurale (edited by S. Messina - Gaia).
• Mille fughe, pause e riprese – Clavicembalisti napoletani, in Storia della Musica e del Teatro a Napoli-Il Seicento (Turchini Edizioni).
• Piccola introduzione al Clavicembalo ben Temperato, in I Quaderni del Cimarosa , V-2019.
• Bach and the Seconda Pratica (in English), in Bach e L’Italia – Sguardi, scambi, convergenze. Ed. by Chiara Bertoglio and Maria Borghesi. (LIM – Libreria Musicale Italiana).

Forthcoming publications:
BACH, HÄNDEL, VIVALDI, FRESCOBALDI, FONTANA et al., Concertos, Sonatas and Canzonas transcribed for 2 and 3 harpsichords.
• The Sonatas of Domenico Scarlatti from the perspective of Italian 17th century Toccata.

He is a member of the International Advisory Panel of the Historical Keyboard Society of North America.
He is a professor of harpsichord, clavichord and fortepiano at the ‘Santa Cecilia' Conservatory in Rome.