CONDUCTOR
In 2005 Andrea De Carlo founded the Ensemble Mare Nostrum, with which he recorded Orgelbüchleinby J. S. Bach for MA Recordings, receiving the Découverte award; he conducted Le concert des violes, recorded for Ricercar-Outhere Music, awarded with 5 Diapason and Coup de Coeur by the Académie Charles-Cros, Paris; he recorded on CD Il Concerto Delle Viole Barberini, madrigals and Roman instrumental music from 17th century for Ricercar (Belgium) and Nueva España, Spanish and Mexican music for Alpha.
In 2013 he recorded Occhi Belli, Occhi Neri, unpublished cantatas by Marco Marazzoli, for Arcana, starting a project on 17th century Roman music, mainly dedicated to the compositions by Alessandro Stradella.
He founded Alessandro Stradella Baroque Festival in Viterbo, of which he is artistic director, presenting La Forza delle Stelle, oratorios S. G. Crisostomo, Santa Editta, Santa Pelagia (first world recordings on CD, awarded with 5 Diapason). With Silvia Frigato in the role of Herod’s daughter, he conducted in 2024 the Oratorio San Giovanni Battistawhich Alessandro Stradella composed in Rome 350 years ago.
He conducted Stradella’s La Doricleawith Il Pomo d’Oro ensemble (Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik conductor award). In 2018 in Warsaw he conducted the first modern performance of Alessandro Stradella’s Il Trespolo Tutore, published on DVD by Dux, and conducted the opera Amare e Fingere by the same composer at the 43rd Tage Alter Musik in Herne for WDR (Westdeutscher Rundfunk). In 2020 the first complete recording of Il Trespolo Tutorewith the Ensemble Mare Nostrum obtained the Découverte award from the Diapason magazine. 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.
Andrea De Carlo, with the Ensemble Mare Nostrum, has been invited by several festivals, including Tage Alter Musik, Herne (Germany), De Bijloke, Gent (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 (France), Festival Internacional de Musica Sacra, Quito (Ecuador), Academie Bach Arques-la-Bataille (France), Festival of the Abbey of Saint-Michel in Thiérache (France), Festival de Sablé (France), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), the Festival de Fontdouce (France), Festival Concertes d’été in Saint Germain (Switzerland), Festival Les Nuites Baroques di Le Touquet (France), Festival Izmir (Turkey).
Graduated in Physics from La Sapienza University in Roma, he studied double bass, then viola da gamba, played with orchestras and ensembles, under the baton of conductors such as Rinaldo Alessandrini, Gabriel Garrido, Jean Claude Malgoire, and Paolo Pandolfo.
He teaches at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Roma.
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