Marco Ambrosini


Marco Ambrosini is an Italian musician, composer and arranger living in Germany.

Studies

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

Musician

Ambrosini debuted as a soloist and nyckelharpa player in the theatre "Alla Scala" in Milan, in concerts for the Royal Swedish Concert Agency, in the Alte Oper Frankfurt, in the Philharmony in Cologne, Berlin, Moscow, in the Carnegie Hall of New York and also perform with different ensembles for early music, baroque music and contemporary music.
Worldwide concert activity includes over 150 CDs, broadcast and television shots as a composer, soloist, or as member of the Katharco Early Music Consort and the ensemble Oni Wytars, Els Trobadors, ensemble Unicorn, ensemble Accentus, Clemencic Consort, Armonico Tributo Austria, Ensemble Kapsberger, L'Arpeggiata, Giovanna Pessi Ensemble, Lucilla Galeazzi, Ensemble La Chimera, Vox Clamantis, Jean-Louis Matinier and with Michael Riessler.

Music

A discography with more than 160 CD published between 1991 and 2019 can be found on the homepage of Marco Ambrosini.

Publications

"Einführung in die mittelalterliche Musik"
"The search for a methodology in devising exercises suitable for different types of nyckelharpa", 2011, CADENCE e-book
"Nyckelharpa - EXERCISES for daily practice", 2012,
"Nyckelharpa Symbols and Notation", 2013,
"A.Vivaldi: La Primavera", 2013,
"A.Vivaldi: L'Autunno",
"Orlando Gibbons, Fantasies of Two, Three and Six Parts", 2018,

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 he helped further develop the instrument.

Pedagogics

Ambrosini is teaching early music at the "Stages for Early Music at castle Burg Fürsteneck" and 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. He is also the didactic director of the in Bertinoro, Italy, in co-operation with Fondazione Alma Mater and the Music and Arts University of the City of Vienna.