A short biography
Recorder and traverso player Lorenzo Cavasanti began studying music as a child; still a student of oboe at the Conservatory of Music in Genova, he soon took up recorder, attending the International Early Music Courses in Urbino. Specialising in the recorder with F.Brüggen, K.Boeke and M.Miessen, Lorenzo received his Diploma at the Scuola Civica di Musica in Milano, with P. Memelsdorff and E.M.Recondo. He also studied baroque flute with B. Kuijken.

Directions and Affinities
Lorenzo Cavasanti has earned an international reputation as a master of style, playing as a concerto soloist with many leading ensembles and orchestras, such as "Le Concert des Nations" (dir. Jordi Savall), "I Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca", "Le Musiche Nove", l"Accademia Bizantina" (dir. Ottavio Dantone), "Accademia del Ricercare", "Ensemble Il Falcone", "Europa Galante" (dir. Fabio Biondi), "Orchestra Teatro La Scala - Milano" (dir. Riccardo Muti).

Lorenzo is a founding member of the Tripla Concordia, a chamber ensemble of international reputation, which has received great critical acclaim for its performances and recordings of baroque repertoire.

With Tripla Concordia Lorenzo has appeared as soloist and chamber musician in the most prestigious venues and festivals, such as the "Accademia Filarmonica Romana", "Cité de la Musique" in Paris, "Musica e Poesia a San Maurizio" in Milan, "Musica nel Mendrisiotto" in Switzerland, "Festival Internazionale di Musica Antica" in Urbino, "Festival Internacional de Musica Antiqua" in Daroca, "Los Conciertos de Radio Clasica" in Madrid.

With the "Europa Galante" orchestra, directed by Fabio Biondi he has performed concertos in many countries performing in the year 2000 at the Konzerthaus in Wien and at the "BBC Proms" at the Royal Albert Hall in London. In 1996, together with the harpsichord player Paola Erdas, he founded the borderline JANAS ensemble, investigating the literary, musical and choreographic aspects of the art in the Mediterranean area between Renaissance and Baroque.

Academy and Masterclasses
Lorenzo Cavasanti has given many masterclasses in Italy (Corsi Internazionali di Musica Antica in Urbino and Belluno and the Corso Internazionale "I gusti riuniti" in Piancerreto), and between 1989 al 1997 he has been teacher of recorder and oboe at the Swiss Conservatory in Lugano.

During the year 2000 he taught recorder, flute and chamber music at the Accademia di Alto Perfezionamento Musicale della Città di Saluzzo, while in 2001 he was professor of recorder at the Conservatory of Bari.

Together with Paola Erdas he organizes since 2002 masterclasses of recorder, harpsichord and chamber music in Genova.

A Note on Discography
The first Tripla Concordia CD "Canzoni, Fantasie e Sonate", an anthology of music by Frescobaldi, Selma, Fontana, and Castello, has been greeted by the French magazine Diapason as "one of the most beautiful productions ever dedicated to the Italian early baroque instrumental repertoire", and inserted in 1992 in the "Ideal CD Collection".

In 1998 the group's recording of a 2-CD set with flute and recorder sonatas by J.S.Bach and G.Ph.Telemann for the Spanish label Cantus has been widely acclaimed (Diapason d'or, "R" de Repertoire, "Magistral", The Record Geijutsu, Japan) for his extraordinary sound quality and his "perfect tecnique" (Alte Musik Aktuell).

Particularly praised by the critics has been also his collaboration with the violinist and conductor Fabio Biondi. They realized together the six Triosonatas by G.Ph.Telemann - CD of the month by Audio Review in November 1999 - followed by two recordings for Virgin Classics in which Lorenzo Cavasanti, accompained by Europa Galante, plays two of the most famous Vivaldi recorder concertos - "La Notte" and "La Tempesta di Mare" and the obbligato flute in J.S.Bach Cantatas BWV 55 and 92b.

Since last year he started a collaboration with the Italian label Stradivarus. The first two project released are Bononcini's "Divertimenti da Camera" with Tripla Concordia and "Hermosuras" with the JANAS ensemble (Eccezionale on Musica in April 2002), to be followed by a disc of Telemann's Triosonatas with the oboe, in collaboration with Alfredo Bernardini.