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Mara Galassi (born 1956, in
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and recording artist specializing in the music for Early
harp The harp is a stringed musical instrument that has a number of individual strings running at an angle to its soundboard; the strings are plucked with the fingers. Harps can be made and played in various ways, standing or sitting, and in orche ...
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, in particular double (cross-strung) and triple harps of the Renaissance and Baroque eras, as well as Classical era single-action pedal harps. She holds degrees from Pesaro Conservatory of Music and the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan. She studied historical performance practice under harpsichordist David Collyer in
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, lutenist Patrick O'Brien in
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. As of 2013, she is a professor of modern and historical harps at the Civica Scuola di Musica di Milano. She is a founding member of the Historical Harp Society. Mara Galassi is active as a soloist, as well as a member of early music Ensembles, including Hesperion XX (dir.
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Concerto Vocale Concerto Vocale is a Belgian musical ensemble for baroque music. History Concerto Vocale was founded in Amsterdam in 1977 by the Belgian countertenor and Conducting, conductor René Jacobs. The vocal ensemble has included sopranos María Cristin ...
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),
Concerto Italiano Concerto Italiano is an Italian early music ensemble well known for their interpretations of Monteverdi and Vivaldi, among others. The historically informed performance ensemble was formed by the harpsichordist Rinaldo Alessandrini, and made its ...
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Rinaldo Alessandrini Rinaldo Alessandrini (born 25 January 1960) is a virtuoso on Baroque keyboards, including harpsichord, fortepiano, and organ. He is founder and conductor of the Italian early music ensemble Concerto Italiano, performing music of Monteverdi, Vivaldi ...
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Mala Punica Mala Punica is an early music ensemble led by Pedro Memelsdorff.Lute Society of America Quarterly - Volumes 33-34 - Page 61 1998 In addition he performs with other groups specializing in many other eras, such as Pedro Memmelsdorf s Mala Punica. I ...
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Konrad Junghänel Konrad Junghänel (born 27 February 1953) is a German lutenist and conductor in the field of historically informed performance, the founder and director of the vocal ensemble Cantus Cölln. Career Junghänel studied at the Hochschule für Musi ...
). Galassi is also a musicologist doing research on historical harps. Her CD "Il Viaggio di Lucrezia" won the “Cannes Award” and “Choc de la Musique” awards.


Filmography

VOLUPTAS DOLENDI: I Gesti del Caravaggio (а film by Francesco Vitali, with Mara Galassi & Deda Cristina Colonna)


Discography

* Il Viaggio Di Lucrezia: Solo Harp - Mara Galassi (Glossa CD ASIN: B000047988) * G.F.Handel: Microcosm Concerto (Label: PID ASIN: B002USOVQO) * Gabriela Bosio & Mara Galassi: Les Harpes du Ciel * Domenico Cimarosa: Salon de femmes in Saint Petersburg, Opus III: OP30299 Release Date: 10-Sep-2001


References

* http://maragalassi.org - official site * https://web.archive.org/web/20071026020715/http://www.goldbergweb.com/en/interpreters/instrumentals/11147.php * https://web.archive.org/web/20080820064622/http://www.glossamusic.com/artists/mgalassi.htm {{DEFAULTSORT:Galassi, Mara Living people Italian harpists Italian performers of early music Women performers of early music 1956 births Musicians from Milan