Gianfranco Russo

Gianfranco Russo
He has graduated in psychology with a pedagogical thesis on music teaching. As a violist, he has dedicated himself to the study of performance practice on period instruments and has collaborated with the most important Italian and European ensembles and artists in this area.

Specialized in medieval and Renaissance stringed instruments, he plays with the Cantilena Antiqua ensemble of Bologna and conducts the Chominciamento di Gioia ensemble in Rome and the ContrArco Consort in Rome. He has held concerts in Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Lebanon, Portugal, Bolivia, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Turkey, Malta... for the most prestigious musical seasons in the most renowned concert halls ( Festival van Vlaanderen, Festival de Strasbourg, Festival Medievale de Cluny, Voix et Route Romaine, Festival dei Due Mondi di Spoleto, Oude Muziek Utrecht, Les Orientales, Accademia Chigiana, Resonanzen (Wien), Accademia di S.Cecilia di Roma, Automne Musical du Château de Versailles, Seviqc Brežice Festival, Tage Alte Musik Regensburg, Ambronay Festival, Settimane internazionali di Musica Medioevale e Rinascimentale di Erice, Alia Musica, Tage Alte Musik Herne, Ravenna Festival, I Concerti Del Quirinale di Radio3, Settembre Musica (Turin), Segni Barocchi, I Concerti a Palazzo Venezia di Radio3, La Fenice Theater (Venice), Liceu Theater (Barcelona), Palais de Beaux Artes (Brussels), Auditorium Parco della Musica (Rome), Institutione Universitaria dei Concerti (Rome), Società del Quartetto (Milan) ...). He has recorded more than sixty CDs for Deutsche Grammophon, EMI, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Virgin, Passacaille, Pan Classics, Brilliant, Tactus, Stradivarius, Symphonia, Bongiovanni, Musica immagine, K617, III Millennio. He recorded and played live for Rai Radiotelevisione Italiana, Radio France, Radio Nacional de España, Vatican Radio, Austrian Radio (ORF) and for German Radio Television (ARD, WDR, Klassic Radio), Switzerland (RTI) Belgian, Danish, Dutch, Slovenian, Greek and SKY. For Japanese television he made a special broadcast on "Leonardo da Vinci and the lira da braccio". He has participated in radio broadcast on music in the Middle Ages and in the Renaissance of RAIDUE, Rai-Radio3, Rai International and collaborates with Rai Radio3 Classica. He gives lectures and seminars at universities, museums and music conservatories on medieval, Renaissance and Baroque stringed instruments. He has published articles on medieval music in the magazines Avvenimenti and Orfeo. He edited the item "Philology and executive practice" for the "XXI century" update of the Treccani Encyclopedia.
He edited and conducted some episodes of "Lessons of Music" on Rai Radio3. Since 1996 he has been directing the medieval and Renaissance ensemble music workshops at the Centro di Pratica Musicale in Rome.