Marco Ambrosini

Marco Ambrosini

Marco Ambrosini with the Nyckelharpa
Background information
Born 1964 (age 5152)
Forlì, Italy
Genres Early music, baroque, contemporary
Occupation(s) Musician, composer, arranger
Instruments Violin, viola, nyckelharpa
Years active 1991–present
Labels ECM, SONY
Website www.ambrosini.de

Marco Ambrosini (born 1964 in Forlì, Italy) is an Italian musician, composer and arranger living in Germany.

Studies

From 1971 to 1981, Ambrosini studied violin and viola (with Adrio Casagrande) and composition with Mario Perrucci at the "Instituto Musicale G.B.Pergolesi" in Ancona and at the conservatory "G.Rossini" in Pesaro.

Musician

Ambrosini plays with different ensembles for early music, baroque music and contemporary music. Worldwide concert activity includes over 110 CDs, broadcast and television shots as a composer, soloist, or as member of the Katharco Early Music Consort and the ensemble Oni Wytars (Germany), Els Trobadors (Spain), ensemble Unicorn, ensemble Accentus, Clemencic Consort, Armonico Tributo Austria, Ensemble Kapsberger (Rolf Lislevand, Norway), L'Arpeggiata (Christina Pruhar, France), Giovanna Pessi Ensemble (Switzerland), Jean-Louis Matinier and with Michael Riessler.

He also played in 1994 for baroque concerts for the Muscovites Philharmonic Concert Halls as Nyckelharpa soloist with the ensemble LAD.

Concerts and tours have taken him to more than 25 states.

Music

Discography

A discography with more than 100 CD published between 1991 and 2007 can be found on the homepage of Marco Ambrosini.

Publications

"Einführung in die mittelalterliche Musik" (introduction to the medieval music, only in German, in collaboration with Michael Posch, 1992, ISBN 3-927240-13-3)

"The search for a methodology in devising exercises suitable for different types of nyckelharpa", 2011, CADENCE e-book

Marco Ambrosini playing his nyckelharpa at the monument of the great Swedish Nyckelharpa player Eric Sahlström (March 2008)

"Nyckelharpa - EXERCISES for daily practice", 2012, ISBN 978-3-943060-04-1

"Nyckelharpa Symbols and Notation", (in collaboration with Jule Bauer) 2013, ISBN 978-3-943060-01-0

"A.Vivaldi: La Primavera" (Edition for 3 Dudays and B.c.), 2013, ISBN 978-3-943060-10-2

"A.Vivaldi: L'Autunno" (Edizion for 4 Dudays, viola e B.c.), ISBN 978-3-943060-11-9

Nyckelharpa

Since 1983 Ambrosini has played the Nyckelharpa as one of the first full-time musicians since the baroque time outside of Sweden.

Together with the former skilled violin makers and today's Nyckelharpa makers Jean Claude Condi and Annette Osann (France) he helped further develop the instrument.

Pedagogics

Ambrosini is teaching early music at the "Stages for Early Music at castle Burg Fürsteneck" (Germany) an on other occasions.

He is the initiator and conductor of the "European Nyckelharpa Training", that takes place in co-operation of the "Scuola di Musica Popolare di Forlimpopoli", Italy, the academy "Burg Fürsteneck" near Fulda, Germany, and the "Eric Sahlström Institutet" in Tobo, Sweden, as a vocational trainer for musicians on the Nyckelharpa.

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