Artist · Tenor
Fabio Furnari
Biography
Fabio Furnari: Tenor who specializes in early music performance practice under the guidance of Alan Curtis and Pedro Memelsdorff, studying in parallel classical guitar with Elena Casoli, singing with Ulrike Wurdack and Marco Farinella and Classics with an archaeological address at the University of Turin.
He has participated in the most renowned World Concert Festivals. He has collaborated with Claudio Abbado, Jordi Savall, Sigiswald Kuijken and Cecilia Bartoli and made over 160 recordings with the most important record labels, obtaining the best acknowledgments of international critics. He was invited for the celebrations of Matera as "European Capital of Culture" for the 2019 Edition. For several years engaged in the enhancement and study of Piedmont history, from the Roman Age to the Baroque Era, he conducts specific studies on Roman and Byzantine history and on Mesopotamian archeology. He is founder of the Cultural Association "Gli Invaghiti", which, since 2008, deals with the recovery of the ancient artistic and musical heritage of Piedmont. He collaborates with the Superintendence for Architectural Heritage of Piedmont since 2009 and with the Piedmont Museum Complex since 2017. In addition to music production and historical-archaeological research, he also participated in the Venice Biennale (2008) as a leading actor, together with Toni Servillo, in the film "Un canto lontano" directed by Alberto Momo and the collaboration with the “Banda Osiris”.