Giovanni
Cantarini
◊ Voice
After
his philosophical and spiritual education at the Pontificia
Universitas Gregoriana in Rome and gaining a Diploma in Greek
literature from Bologna University, Giovanni Cantarini began his
singing studies with Claudio Cavina, Ulrich Pfeifer and Michel Van
Goethem. In 2005 he completed four years of study at the Schola
Cantorum Basiliensis where his teachers included Gerd Türk and
Dominique Vellard. He is now based in Basel and studies with Stefan
Haselhoff, with whom he is extending his repertoire to include later
periods.
As a soloist, ensemble singer and choir member he has appeared at many
major European early music festivals including La Folle Journée,
Festival d’Ambronay, Festival de Flandres, Brighton Early Music
Festival and Freunde Alte Musik Basel. He performs and records with
groups including La Venexiana, Ensemble Gilles Binchois, Basler
Vokalsolisten, Academie Baroque Européenne, Schweizer Kammerchor,
Capriccio Basel, and Le Basile. He is a founder member of the
ensembles Ad Organum Faciendum and Alla Breve, with whom he regularly
performs. With Conrad Steinmann’s Ensemble Melpomen he performs new
compositions based on classic Greek poetry - singing, acting and
playing a newly built kithara.
Giovanni continues his personal research into medieval monody, the
Renaissance madrigal and baroque monody of recitar cantando and the
cantata da camera. He has been the resident expert on poetry, rhetoric
and metre for courses by Montserrat Figueras at the Schola Cantorum
Basiliensis and in Barcelona.
