Fernando De Luca

He also studied counterpoint and basso continuo with Mons. Domenico Bartolucci, Chapel Master in the Sistine Chapel. He graduated in harpsichord in 1992 at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome under the guidance of Paola Bernardi, obtaining the highest marks with honors.
He has always been interested in the problem of the philological interpretation of the harpsichord repertoire of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries paying particular attention to the study and practice of historical tunings. From 1994 to 2003 he was guest of numerous concert institutions and performed in Italy and abroad both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles. Since 1999 he has been harpsichordist of CIMA (Italian Center of Ancient Music), with which he performs, among other things, Purcell’s The Fairy Queen, Handel’s Messiah, Bach’s Magnificat, various cantatas by Telemann and Handel’s Funeral Anthem. In 2001 he is part of the National Committee, chaired by prof. Mario Valente, for the celebrations of the third centenary of the birth of Metastasio. As a harpsichord teacher, he collaborates in the representation of two oratories based on a text by Metastasio, Salieri’s Passion of Jesus Christ, and Anfossi’s Giuseppe Ricoronato. He was also harpsichordist of the group of Baroque Academy of Santa Cecilia. He has performed in solo and ensemble concerts in Canada (2009), Germany and United Kingdom (2021), Montenegro (2013), Latvia (2014).
From 2004 to 2021 he held chair of Harpsichord at the Pierluigi da Palestrina Conservatory in Cagliari. Since 2021 he has held the same chair at the Antonio Vivaldi Conservatory in Alessandria.
He is author of numerous sonatas for harpsichord and flute, oboe, violin, viola da gamba, lute, as well as pieces of vocal music and chamber music.
He was the first to play in 1991 the harpsichord opera omnia by J.N.P. Royer and in 2006 he founded the “Sala del Cembalo del Caro Sassone”, initially conceived to carry out the online publication of the complete harpsichord work by G.F. Handel, but today it has become the largest source of recordings made by a professional harpsichordist in the world. Next to the site, a Web Radio, “la Sala del Cembalo” is taking shape with the aim of disseminating these recordings and the dissemination of themes inherent in this musical period (podcast).
He has published the 12 Suites by J. Mattheson for harpsichord only for the Bologna Harpsichord Association. To his credit he has recorded various CDs: the Suite of Nicolas Siret, the Manuscript of Bergamo / Handel / Babell and for the Brilliant Classics the entire corpus of C. Graupner’s complete work for keyboard (2021), C. Moyreau’s complete harpsichord music (2022), Charles Alexandre Jollage’s complete harpsichord music .