Giovanni Antonini is an Italian

Italian people

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 conductor and soloist on the recorder and baroque transverse flute. He studied in his native Milan

Milan

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, and attended the Civica Scuola di Musica in that city and the Centre de Musique Ancienne in Geneva

Geneva

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. In 1985, along with Luca Pianca

Luca Pianca

Luca Pianca is a Swiss musician-lutenist whose specialty is archlute. In 1985 he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico, a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan...

, he co - founded Il Giardino Armonico

Il Giardino Armonico

Il Giardino Armonico is a pioneering Italian early music ensemble founded in Milan in 1985 by Luca Pianca and Giovanni Antonini, primarily to play 17th- and 18th-century music on period instruments....

, a pioneering Italian early-music ensemble based in Milan.

Antonini is regarded as one of the leaders of the Italian period instruments movement, and has performed with many distinguished artists including Christoph Prégardien

Christoph Prégardien

Christoph Prégardien is a German lyric tenor whose career is closely associated with the roles in Mozart operas, as well as performances of Lieder, oratorio roles, and Baroque music...

, Christophe Coin, Katia and Marielle Labèque

Katia and Marielle Labèque

The French sisters Labèque, Katia and Marielle , form an internationally known piano duo. They have performed and recorded most of the repertoire for two pianos, spanning the instrumental, chamber, and concerto genres encompassing musical periods from Baroque through contemporary.Katia and...

, Viktoria Mullova

Viktoria Mullova

Viktoria Yurievna Mullova is a Russian violinist. She is best known for her performances and recordings of a number of violin concerti, compositions by J.S. Bach, and her innovative interpretations of popular and jazz compositions by Miles Davis, Duke Ellington, The Beatles, and...

 and Giuliano Carmignola

Giuliano Carmignola

Giuliano Carmignola is an Italian violinist.- Life :Coming from a family of musicians, Carmignola began his violin studies with the support of his father Antonio to enter the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia with Luigi Ferro...

. He has toured worldwide and has received numerous awards for his achievements, including, with Il Giardino Armonico, the Gramophone Award

Gramophone Award

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, Diapason d’Or, and Choc du Monde de la Musique.

External links

• Il giardino Armonico, The (un)Official Fanpage Il Giardino Armonico biography

• Recorded Bach Cantatas, short biographiesThe World of Recorded Bach Cantatas