Carlo Steno Rossi

Rossi received a diploma in Pianoforte from the “G. Tartini” Conservatory in Trieste and a diploma in Harpsichord from the “F. A. Bonporti” Conservatory in Trento with highest honors. He subsequently attended the Schola Cantorum in Basel in order to deepen his study of early and Baroque music, approaching performance from a philological perspective, with particular attention to the harpsichord, organ and fortepiano repertoire. He performs regularly both as a soloist on organ and harpsichord and as a continuo player with various orchestras and ensembles specialising in early and Baroque music on period instruments, appearing at national and international festivals and concert series in Italy and abroad (including Germany, Austria and Poland). He collaborates regularly as a continuo player with the ensemble La Stagione Armonica, directed by Sergio Balestracci, with whom he also frequently performs as part of a duo.

He has participated as a continuo player in the modern first performances of several operas and oratorios, including The Athenaid by A. Vivaldi with Venice Baroque Orchestra staged at the 63rd Settimana Musicale Senese organized by the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and broadcast in Eurovision by Radio Rai 3; Marc antonio and Cleopatra by J.A. Hasse broadcast by Rai 5 from the Salone delle Feste of Palazzo Labia in Venice; The Olympiad by B. Galuppi performed at the Teatro Malibran in Venice and recorded on DVD as a world premiere for the record company Dynamic; Vespro della Beata Vergine by Orazio Tarditi La Stagione Armonica in Sergio Balestracci’s transcription performed as part of the Ravenna Festival 2012 and broadcast by Radio Rai 3; The Passion of Jesus Christ Oratorio for soloists, choir and orchestra by Ferdinando Paër with theOrchestra of Padua and Veneto in Sergio Balestracci’s transcription recorded for the CPO label at the Auditorium of the Pollini Conservatory in Padua.

Alongside his concert activity, he also works as a transcriber and editor of opera, oratorio and instrumental scores for concert institutions and theatres. Of particular note are L’Olimpiade by B. Galuppi (together with musicologist Franco Rossi), Il Crociato in Egitto by G. Meyerbeer (inaugural opera of the 2007 Opera Season) commissioned by the Fondazione Teatro La Fenice in Venice, La Cecchina by Niccolò Piccinni commissioned by the Fondazione Teatro Donizetti in Bergamo. In 2015 he produced the modern edition of the dramatic compositions Amor Prigioniero by Luca Antonio Predieri and Giuseppe Bonno to a libretto by Metastasio, which he then conducted in its premiere performance with Venetia Antiqua Ensemble as part of the Venice Music Project’s Early Music Season at the Church of St. John the Evangelist in Venice. In 2017 he edited for I solisti Veneti the modern edition of Ferdinando Bertoni’s motet “Tuba, trympana cantate” and a concerto for violin and orchestra by Giuseppe Tartini, both performed as part of the 2017 Veneto Festival.