Ivana Valotti

Ivana Valotti
Ivana Valotti is considered one of the major specialists of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Italian repertoires for organ.

Since 1990, she is an organ professor at the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” in Milan, where she also teaches “Basso continuo”, “Hystory and Analysis of Early Organ music repertoire” and “ Renaissance and Baroque Performance Practice” in the advanced course of Early music for Organ. Valotti graduated in Piano, Organ and Harpsichord from the Milan Conservatory, specialising in Italian and German Baroque repertoire with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Michael Radulescu and Harald Vogel. She won the organ competitions of Noale (Venice, 1980) and Rome (1983), and received the “Girolamo Frescobaldi Award” at the Noale competition in 1983. In the corse of her intense concert activity, she has participated in many festivals in Europe and Latin America, both as soloist and as an instrumentalist of the Collegium vocale et instrumentale “Nova Ars Cantandi”, directed by Giovanni Acciai.
As a soloist, Valotti has realized numerous CD for the labels Dynamic, Universal, Tactus, Archiv Produktion and Naxos labels, (“De divina inventione” with organ works of Dietrich Buxtehude and Johann Sebastian Bach; the world premiere recording of the complete Organ works by Girolamo Cavazzoni; the world premiere recording of “Musiche inedite dai Codici Chigi” by Girolamo Frescobaldi, “Organ works by Giovanni Salvatore).
These productions were particularly admired and acclaimed from critical rewews (Musica, Classic Voice, Early music review, Grammophone, MusicVoice, IMD) for its exemplary performances.
As an instrumentalist of “Nova Ars Cantandi” she has realized numerous world premiere recordings of Italian Baroque sacred vocal music: “Armonici entusiasmi di Davide”, op. IX by Giovanni Battista Bassani; “ Arpa davidica, ovvero Salmi e Messa concertata a tre, quattro voci e continuo”, op. XVI by Tarquinio Merula; “Contrafacta” by Claudio Monteverdi; “Responsoria” by Leonardo Leo (this recording received the prestigious Franco Abbiati Award 2019); “Compiete” op VII, by Giovanni Legrenzi; Harmonia d’affetti devoti”, op. III by Giovanni Legrenzi; “Salmi e Magnificat” by Francesco Durante.
She has held masterclasses in various European institutions (in Paris, Stuttgart, Munich, Prague, Seville and Stockolm).
She has published some articles and musicological essays such as “The emotional language in the Orgelbuchlein of Johann Sebastian Bach” and “Music and Reformation: the “chorale” for the books of the Conservatory “Giuseppe Verdi” of Milan.
In 2015 Valotti joined the Réseau Européen de Musique Ancienne, and in 2022 with “Nova Ars Cantandi” she became member of Fédération des ensembles vocaux and instrumentaux spécialisés (FEVIS).
Since 2022 she has been the artistic director of Musica Mirabilis, Festival musicale Internazionale “Giovanni Legrenzi” alongside Giovanni Acciai.