CONDUCTOR

Andrea De Carlo founded the Ensemble Mare Nostrum in 2005, with which he recorded J. S. Bach’s Orgelbüchlein for MA Recordings, winning the Découverte Prize; he conducted Le concert des violes, recorded for Ricercar-Outhere Music awarded 5 Diapason and Coup de Coeur by the Academie Charles-Cros, Paris; he recorded Il Concerto Delle Viole Barberini, madrigals and Roman instrumental music of the 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 In 2013 he recorded Occhi Belli, Occhi Neri, unpublished cantatas by Marco Marazzoli, for Arcana, He started a project on 17th-century Roman music with The Stradella Project, dedicated to the works by Alessandro Stradella.
He founded and directed Alessandro Stradella Baroque Festival in Viterbo, where he performed La Forza Delle Stelle and the oratorios S. G. Crisostomo, Santa Editta, Santa Pelagia, the first world recordings on CD, awarded with 5 Diapasons.

Andrea De Carlo conducted Stradella’s La Doriclea with the ensemble Il Pomo d’Oro (conductor’s prize Preis der deutschen Schallplattenkritik). In 2018 in Warsaw he conducted the first performance in modern times of Alessandro Stradella’s Il Trespolo Tutore, released on dvd for Dux, and 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 Tutore with the Ensemble Mare Nostrum won the Découverte prize from Diapason magazine: Teatro Carlo Felice in Genova opened the opera season with the first staging in modern times of Il Trespolo Tutore by Alessandro Stradella, whose tomb is preserved in the city. In 2023 Andrea De Carlo held a conference and dedicated the Festival to composers Renato Miani and Domenico Massenzio.

With the Ensemble Mare Nostrum, he 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 de l’Abbaye de Saint-Michel en Thiérache (France), Festival de Sablé (France), Festival Internacional Cervantino (Mexico), Festival de Fontdouce (France), Festival Concertes d’été in Saint Germain (Switzerland), Festival ‘Les Nuites Baroques’ in Le Touquet (France), Festival Izmir (Turkey).

A graduate in Physics from University La Sapienza in Roma, he studied double bass, then viola da gamba, participating in concert seasons with orchestras and ensembles, under the baton of conductors such as Gabriel Garrido, Rinaldo Alessandrini , Jean Claude Malgoire, Paolo Pandolfo.
Andrea De Carlo is a teacher at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Roma and is frequently invited to hold masterclasses on both musical and vocal interpretation.