Maria Luisa Baldassari is a graduated in piano, harpsichord (with Gordon Murray and Bob van Asperen) and musicology at Pavia University. She is active both as performer and scholar: as a performer she has played with several important soloists and orchesters in many italian theaters and concert halls, has been invited in France, Greece, Brasil, USA, Canada and has made recordings for Echo, Tactus, Rivo Alto, Nuova Era and EMI. She has founded the Ensemble Les Nations, a group composed by many well known solists of ancient music in Italy, whose repertoire is Renaissance and early Baroque italian music. Les Nations has recorded two CDs devoted to the music of Bartolomeo Tromboncino, an eminent Renaissance composer. The ensemble has been chosen in 1999 and in 2008 for the realisation of ‘Euridice’ of Jacopo Peri, the first known extant opera. Open to various musical experiences, she has played and recorded cd with the wel known Italian pop singer Angelo Branduardi

Maria Luisa Baldassari teachs harpsichord at the 'Rossini' Conservatory of Pesaro and is President of the musical association Collegium Musicum Classense; she writes musical reviews for the Nuova Rivista Musicale Italiana and publishes critical editions and translations of musicological essays for ‘Ut Orpheus’.

Programs

Les Caractères en Musique
Portraits, dances and "pièces à caractère" in french harpsichord music

Music by Louis Couperin, Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre, François Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Jacques Duphly, Antoine Forqueray, Claude-Bénigne Balbastre.

The virtuoso dance
Variations and dances from XVIIth to XVIIIth century

Music by Giovanni Picchi, Peter Phillips, William Byrd, Jan Pieterzoon Sweelinck, Louis Couperin, Jean-Philippe Rameau, Georg Friedrich Haendel