JACOPO GIANNINOTO
Maestro Dr. Jacopo Gianninoto is a guitarist, lutenist and composer
from Italy.
He started playing Guitar when he was 5 years old, since then he never
stopped and he completed his studies at the Conservatory “A.
Pedrollo” in Vicenza, one of the best school for plucked
string instruments in Europe, under the guidance of Maestro Paolo
Muggia. He also participated in several master classes with world
famous musicians including the great Narciso Yepes and Mario Gangi,
from which he has developed a personal understanding of classical
guitar, specializing in early music and mastering the 10 string guitar.
Following his passion for early repertoire, in 1998 he started his
research on original ancient plucked strings instruments with lute,
theorbo and baroque guitar, under the guidance of Maestro Terrell
Stone, who had a great influence on his musical ideas, studying also
with Tiziano Bagnati and Francesca Torelli. He concentrated his
performance studies in the execution of music from the 16th century,
with his essential and minimalist interpretations, under the point of
view of the execution and in the choice of repertoire, his great
ability to deliver passionate performances and his enjoyable talks
during concerts, he developed his personal way of understanding early
music as something to be kept alive with authentic yet modern
performances, as opposed to “dead” executions good
only for museums. He is recognized as one of the most talented lutenist
of his generation.
His research and authorship activity consist on several music
manuscripts from Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, and
collaboration with publisher ”Armelin
Musica“ from Padova (Padua, Italy) and he is the
director, together with Maestro Muggia of
“Recordare”, a series of books of transcriptions in
modern notation of previously unpublished music for lute, baroque
guitar and theorbo, adapted for classical guitar from the original
tablatures, for the rediscovery of the Italian ancient repertoire. His
publishing work include a revision for guitar of the A.
Vivaldi’s “Concerto per due Violini Leuto e Basso
RV93”, a transcription for guitar of the J.S.
Bach’s sonatas originally written for solo violin, works on
Vincenzo Galilei (father of the scientist Galileo), J.H. Kapsperger, F.
Corbetta, I. Matelart, A. Piccinini, F. Spinacino, V. Capirola, S.L.
Weiss and his books are widely known in the guitar world.
During his career he published many recordings and books, and he gave
several recitals, concerts and master classes in many countries around
the world including Italy, France, Austria, England, Czech Republic,
Slovenia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Argentina, Venezuela and United States,
reshaking everywhere the unanimous critics and audience admiration.
He is currently the Chairman and Program Director of the Department of
Music Performance at the Assumption University of Thailand, and also
collaborates with several international music institutions such as
Shrewsbury International School and Fondazione
Levi (as a member of the Comitato Scientifico).