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Ottavio Dantone This artist studied organ and harpsichord
performance at the G. Verdi conservatory in Milan.
He began a regular concert career while still a
student, simultaneously devoting time to studies of
early music and historical performance practice. He
quickly aroused the interest of audiences and critics.
Dantone won the two most important international
harpsichord competitions in Paris (1985) and Bruges
(1986). He is the first and only Italian harpsichordist
to gain international renown. In 1996, the artist
became music director of the Accademia Bizantina
ensemble, with which he is associated to this day. In
1999, he debuted in the operatic repertoire (G. Sarti’s
Giulio Sabino in his own arrangement). Since then,
the director has prepared over a dozen premières
of lesser-known Classical and Romantic works. In
2005, he led an enthusiastically received production
of G. F. Handel’s Rinaldo (stage director Pier Luigi
Pizzi) at Teatro alla Scala. Dantone concertizes as
a soloist and conductor. He performs in the most
important halls all over the world and at the most
prestigious festivals. He has made numerous radio,
television and disc recordings for labels including
Decca (with Andreas Scholl), Harmonia Mundi,
Naïve, Arts, Dynamic and Stradivarius.
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