Ensemble Romabarocca

ROMABAROCCA ENSEMBLE
The Romabarocca Ensemble (RBE) was founded in 1994 by Lorenzo Tozzi, who is still its artistic director, to rediscover the vast Italian music repertoire with a philological intent.

In its repertoire, it can include unpublished and rare music, instrumental and vocal, sacred and profane, of the Italian Baroque: oratories, cantatas, melodramas and comic interludes. Soon the ensemble attract attention for the versatility and originality of its musical programs. It performed concerts throughout Italy, even for historical institutions such as the Sienese Musical Weeks, the Roman Philharmonic, the Oratorio of Gonfalone, the Baroque Festival of Viterbo, the Accademia di San Luca, the Festival di Pasqua and performed numerous tours abroad, from Korea to China, from Finland and Russia, from Belarus to Zambia, from Syria to Mongolia and Poland. Many rare music has been brought to light (some first modern performances even), including works by Cornacchioli, Leo, Rainaldi, Scarlatti, Cavalieri, Carissimi, Agazzari, Gasparini, Hasse, Haendel, Quagliati, F. Caccini, Caporale and Rossi. For the twentieth anniversary of the Ensemble, the President of the Italian Republic Napolitano has honoured it with a national award: the Medaglia di Rappresentanza. The RBE records music for Tactus, Bongiovanni, Brilliant and Da Vinci.