Francesco Saverio Pedrini & La Pedrina
Biography Francesco Saverio Pedrini & La Pedrina
La Pedrina
The ensemble La Pedrina, founded by Francesco Saverio Pedrini in 2016, derives its name from a sonata by Tarquinio Merula (Canzoni overo Sonate, 1637). The singers and instrumentalists of the ensemble regularly perform in the most renowned groups of ancient music. The repertoire of the ensemble ranges from Italian vocal and instrumental music of the 16th and 17th centuries to the cantatas of J. S. Bach. In 2016 it collaborated with Paolo Pandolfo in the project Regina Bastarda dedicated to the repertoire of diminutions of madrigals and chansons for the viola bastarda. In 2017, on the occasion of the restoration of the “sala delle fatiche d’Ercole” at the Palazzo Venezia in Rome, it produced the performance “Delle battaglie e degli amori d’Ercole” in collaboration with the Renaissance dance company RenaiDanse of Véronique Daniels.
Francesco Tasini
Born in Parma in 1973, he graduated in organ and organ composition with Francesco Tasini at the conservatory of his native city. After studying composition in Parma and musicology in Cremona, he specialized in the study of early music at the Schola Cantorum in Basel with A. Marcon and J.-C. Zehnder. The teachings of Michael Radulescu and Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini also contributed to his training.
He was awarded prizes in the international organ competitions of Bruges and Borca di Cadore. He regularly performs as a continuo player on the organ and harpsichord with Kammerorchester Basel.
In 2006 he founded the Organ Academy of Parma and the International Organ Festival of the City of Parma.
Since 2007 he has been Korrepetitor in the baroque opera class of the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis.
From 2012 to 2016 he was musical director of the Swiss ensemble Voces Suaves with whom he recorded works by Maurizio Cazzati and Giovanni Croce in world premiere.
