Collegium Pro Musica Genua

Artistic career

The Collegium Pro Musica is an ensemble specialized in XVII and XVIII century music repertoire (especially italian), performed in accordance with the style of that age and using true copies of original instruments. The Collegium is composed of many of the best italian performers, all carrying out an intense concert activity as soloists with some of the most important european concert institutions, and often called for collaborating with famous baroque groups and conductors. The Collegium has performed with famous singers such as Emma Kirkby and Roberta Invernizzi and with performers such as the violinist Monica Huggett, the harpsicordist Bob Van Asperen and the gambist Lorenz Duftschmid.

Flexible in its formation, which varies from the Trio to the Baroque Orchestra, the group has been founded in 1989 by the flautist Stefano Bagliano, who is also the artistic director. Bagliano and the Collegium Pro Musica have performed very succesfully in important festivals and concert institutions in USA, Europe and Asia.

Recordings

The Collegium undertook a recording activity, gaining important recognition from the international critics. It has recorded compact - discs for the Dynamic, Nuova Era and Tactus record companies, with Sonatas and Concerts by A.Vivaldi, G.P.Telemann, B.Marcello, J.S.Bach Cantatas by A.Scarlatti and other works by Graupner, Fasch, Graun, Merula, Stradella, Bitti and Guerrieri.

Some recordings came out as a free CD enclosed to some of the most important italian musical magazines, such as CD CLASSICS and the prestigious AMADEUS.

The recording with the Vivaldi Flute Concerts op.10 is going to be commercialized in 2009 by Stradivarius. Recently a new agreement has been reached with Brilliant – important dutch label with a wide distribution – and three CD will be recorded by Collegium Pro Musica with Neapolitan baroque music.