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Massimo Marchese (born in Savona,
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musician,
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,
theorbist The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck and a second pegbox. Like a lute, a theorbo has a curved-back sound box (a hollow box) with a wooden top, typically with a sound hole, and a neck extending out ...
and
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Biography

Born in Savona in the Italian region of
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, Marchese was a student of
Jakob Lindberg Jakob Lindberg (born 16 October 1952) is a Sweden, Swedish lutenist, performing solo, in small and large ensembles, and also directing operas, using instruments of the lute and guitar families. He is known for the first ever recording of the Complet ...
at the
Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is a conservatoire established by royal charter in 1882, located in South Kensington, London, UK. It offers training from the undergraduate to the doctoral level in all aspects of Western Music including performanc ...
in London.


Collaborations

He collaborated with the pipa player Jiao Xiangwen and the poet Sandro Boccardi He accompanied
Nigel Rogers Nigel David Rogers (21 March 1935 – 19 January 2022) was an English multilingual tenor, music conductor, and vocal coach, who sang in over seventy classical music album recordings in German, French, Italian, Latin and English, mostly of earl ...
, Ottavio Dantone, Flavio Colusso,
Flavio Emilio Scogna Flavio Emilio Scogna (born 16 August 1956 in Savona, Liguria) is an Italian composer and conductor. Biography After studying at the Conservatory of Genoa, Scogna subsequently went on to further his studies in composition and conducting, am ...
, and many ensemble as a Basso continuo musician. He played in
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. His recordings include the works of
Francesco Spinacino Francesco Spinacino ( fl. 1507) was an Italian lutenist and composer. His surviving output comprises the first two volumes of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications: ''Intabolatura de lauto libro primo'' and ''Intabolat ...
,
Franciscus Bossinensis Franciscus Bossinensis (''fl.'' 1509 – 1511) (Francis the Bosnian) was a lutenist-composer active in Italy in the 16th century. Bojan Bujić, "Navigating through the Past": Issues Facing an Historian of Music in Bosnia, ''International Review of t ...
,
Joachim van den Hove Joachim van den Hove (1567? – 1620) was a Low Countries, Flemish/Dutch composer and a lutenist. He composed works for lute solo and for lute and voice. Moreover, he wrote many arrangements for lute of Italian, French, and English vocal and i ...
,
Robert de Visée Robert de Visée (c. 1655 – 1732/1733) was a French lutenist, guitarist, theorbist and viol player at the court of the kings Louis XIV and Louis XV, as well as a singer and composer for lute, theorbo and guitar. Biography Robert de Visée's p ...
, Gabriele Fallamero,Massimo Marchese, "The lute music and songs of Gabriel Fallamero" in Lute News No. 111 (UK Lute Society quarterly, October 2014) and
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,
.


Partial discography

*
Roman Turovsky-Savchuk Roman Turovsky-Savchuk (Ukrainian: Роман Туровський-Савчук) is an American artist-painter, photographer and videoinstallation artist, as well as a lutenist-composer,
- "Dialogues with Time" (daVinci Edition C00028, 2017) *
Francesco Spinacino Francesco Spinacino ( fl. 1507) was an Italian lutenist and composer. His surviving output comprises the first two volumes of Ottaviano Petrucci's influential series of lute music publications: ''Intabolatura de lauto libro primo'' and ''Intabolat ...
- ''Intavolatura di Leuto, Libri I e II'' (Tactus, 2006) *
Franciscus Bossinensis Franciscus Bossinensis (''fl.'' 1509 – 1511) (Francis the Bosnian) was a lutenist-composer active in Italy in the 16th century. Bojan Bujić, "Navigating through the Past": Issues Facing an Historian of Music in Bosnia, ''International Review of t ...
- ''Petrarca ed il cantare a Leuro'' (Tactus, 2007) * ''The journeys of Rubens - Music from the courts of Europe'' (Centaur Records 2011) * ''Virtuoso
Vihuela The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of t ...
music from Spain and Italy'' (Centaur records, 2013) *
Robert de Visee The name Robert is an ancient Germanic given name, from Proto-Germanic "fame" and "bright" (''Hrōþiberhtaz''). Compare Old Dutch ''Robrecht'' and Old High German ''Hrodebert'' (a compound of '' Hruod'' ( non, Hróðr) "fame, glory, honou ...
''La musique de la chambre du Roi'' voll I, II and III (Brilliant Classics 2013) *
Joachim van den Hove Joachim van den Hove (1567? – 1620) was a Low Countries, Flemish/Dutch composer and a lutenist. He composed works for lute solo and for lute and voice. Moreover, he wrote many arrangements for lute of Italian, French, and English vocal and i ...
- ''Florida'' (Brilliant Classics 2015)


See also

* Lute *
Theorbo The theorbo is a plucked string instrument of the lute family, with an extended neck and a second pegbox. Like a lute, a theorbo has a curved-back sound box (a hollow box) with a wooden top, typically with a sound hole, and a neck extending ...
*
Vihuela The vihuela () is a 15th-century fretted plucked Spanish string instrument, shaped like a guitar (figure-of-eight form offering strength and portability) but tuned like a lute. It was used in 15th- and 16th-century Spain as the equivalent of t ...
* Basso continuo


References


External links

* Living people Italian lutenists People from Savona 1965 births Centaur Records artists {{Italy-music-bio-stub