CONDUCTOR
In 2005, Andrea De Carlo founded the Ensemble Mare Nostrum, with which he recorded J.S. Bach’s Orgelbüchlein for MA Recordings, receiving the Découverte Award. He also conducted Le Concert des Violes, recorded for Ricercar–Outhere Music, which was awarded 5 Diapason and the Coup de Cœur by the Académie Charles Cros in Paris. He has recorded Il Concerto delle Viole Barberini, a program of Roman madrigals and instrumental music from the 17th century, for Ricercar (Belgium), as well as Nueva España, featuring Spanish and Mexican baroque music, for Alpha.
In 2013, he released Occhi Belli, Occhi Neri, a collection of unrecorded cantatas by Marco Marazzoli, for Arcana, marking the beginning of an ongoing project dedicated to 17th-century Roman music, with a primary focus on the works of Alessandro Stradella.
He is the founder and artistic director of the Alessandro Stradella Baroque Festival in Viterbo, where he has staged La Forza Delle Stelle and the oratorios San Giovanni Crisostomo, Santa Editta, and Santa Pelagia (all world première recordings, awarded 5 Diapason). With Silvia Frigato in the role of Herod’s daughter, he conducted Stradella’s San Giovanni Battista—originally premiered by the composer in 1675 in Rome—at the Stradella Festival and again in 2025 at the Ravenna Festival (first performance in Ravenna). He has also been invited with Ensemble Mare Nostrum by the festivals of Cremona and Lerici.
Andrea De Carlo conducted Stradella’s opera La Doriclea with Il Pomo d’Oro, receiving the Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik for best conductor. In 2018, he conducted the first modern performance of Il Trespolo Tutore in Warsaw, released on DVD by Dux, and conducted Stradella’s opera Amare e Fingere at the 43rd Tage Alter Musik in Herne for WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk).
In 2020, he recorded the first complete version of Il Trespolo Tutore with Ensemble Mare Nostrum, receiving another Découverte Award from Diapason. Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova invited him to open the season with the first modern staging of Il Trespolo Tutore. With Cameristi della Scala in Milano he conducted compositions by Stradella, Corelli, and Händel.
With Ensemble Mare Nostrum, Andrea De Carlo has been invited to prestigious festivals including: Tage Alter Musik (Herne, Germany), De Bijloke (Ghent, Belgium), Stockholm Early Music Festival (Sweden), Noites de Queluz (Portugal), Festival de Música Antigua de Úbeda y Baeza (FEMAUB) (Spain), Maison de Radio France (Paris), Festival Internacional de Música Sacra (Quito, Ecuador), Académie Bach Arques-la-Bataille, Festival de l’Abbaye de Saint-Michel en Thiérache, Festival de Sablé, Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Festival de Fontdouce, Concerts d’été à Saint Germain (Switzerland), Les Nuits Baroques de Le Touquet, and the Izmir Festival (Turkey).
A graduate in Physics from the University of Roma La Sapienza, he studied double bass and later viola da gamba, performing in concert seasons with orchestras and early music ensembles under conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gabriel Garrido, Jean-Claude Malgoire, and Paolo Pandolfo.
He currently teaches at the Conservatorio Santa Cecilia in Roma.
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