Teachers

Enrico Baiano (Naples, 1960) is an Italian harpsichordist and fortepianist, known on the international stage as a virtuoso and strict interpreter of early music. Baiano has earned a number of international awards including the Deutsche Schallplattenpreis, Diapason d’Or, Choc de la Musique and Platte des Monats. He has written Method for Harpsichord: A practical guide for Pianists, Organists and Harpsichordists published by Ut Orpheus and translated into five languages. He has performed at the most renowned early music festivals in Europe, Israel and Japan with repertoire ranging from 16th to 21st century. He is one of the co-founders of the Italian ensemble “Cappella della Pietà dei Turchini”, with whom he has played and recorded from 1986 to 2000. He has also played with the Neapolitan contemporary music ensemble “Dissonanzen”, with Piccolo concerto “Wien” and with the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra. He took part in two documentary films directed by Francesco Leprino: ‘Un gioco ardito – dodici variazioni tematiche su Domenico Scarlatti’ and ‘Sul nome B.a.c.h.’.

Edoardo Maria Bellotti (Pavia, 1957) is an Italian organist and harpsichordist. He studied organ and harpsichord at the University of Pavia, then human sciences and theology. He first taught organ and improvisation at the Trossingen University of Music, from 2008 at the Bremen University of the Arts and has been a professor at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester since September 2012.
A virtuoso organist and renowned improviser, Bellotti performs at leading festivals and concert venues throughout the world.
He combines his international performing career with musicological research and teaching, publishing articles as well as new critical editions of music of the 17th and 18th centuries. He is a frequent guest lecturer at international conferences. He has made several critically acclaimed recordings on historical instruments, including Promenade (Loft Recordings), a recording of organ repertoire and original improvisations on the Eastman School of Music’s Italian baroque organ at the Memorial Art Gallery in Rochester.

Armando Carideo, born in Torremaggiore (FG) in 1944, studied piano, organ and composition with Maestro Antonio Demonte, organist of the Cathedral of Turin; after which he specialized in musical paleography at the Institute of Musical Paleography in Rome. He combines his concert activity with the profession of musicologist and organologist, publishing essays of musicology and history of organ. The assiduous research in Italian and European libraries led to the discovery of important musical sources published in a critical edition by the publishing house “Ut Orpheus” of Bologna. Since 2000 he took the direction of sources collection for keyboard of the Historical Italian Organ Institute.
He recorded his first CD (1998) with music by F. Fierce for the label Esperia. He has collaborated with the Superintendents of Lazio and Abruzzo as an expert for the cataloging and restoration of historic organs. From 1996 to 2000 he was organist of the organ Feliciano FAITHFUL (1726) in the Basilica of St. Bernardino in L’Aquila. He is currently organist organ of Philip Head (1701) in the Basilica of St. Maria in Trastevere (Rome). Since 2005 he teachs at the Smarano International Organ Academy (Trento).
He has been professor of History of Musical Instruments at the University of Rome Tor Vergata in 2000-2009. Author of the first critical edition of Bernardo Pasquini keyboard works.

Ulrika Davidsson is a versatile musician, who maintains a performance career on the piano, fortepiano, clavichord, as well as the harpsichord. She teaches historical keyboard instruments at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Copenhagen, and at the Academy of Music and Drama, University of Gothenburg, Sweden. From 2007 to 2012 she was Assistant Professor of Historical Keyboards at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester, NY, as well as Music Director of Rochester City Ballet, and the Draper Center for Dance Education in Rochester. Ulrika Davidsson has given concerts throughout Europe, and in the US, Canada, Japan, and South Korea, and has presented recitals and lectures at many international academies and conferences. She has been featured as piano soloist with a number of orchestras in her native Sweden, she has toured with many chamber music ensembles, and has appeared on national television and radio. Dr. Davidsson has graduated from the Eastman School of Music with a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in piano performance and historical keyboards, studying with Barry Snyder, and a Master’s degree in harpsichord performance under the tutelage of William Porter. She also holds a Master of Fine Arts degree in piano performance and pedagogy from the University of Gothenburg where Elisif Lundén-Bergfelt was her teacher; and the Organist and Cantor Diploma from The Royal Academy of Music. In Amsterdam, she studied piano with Willem Brons at the Sweelinck Conservatory. From 1990 to 1999 she served on the faculty of the School of Music, University of Gothenburg. A generous grant from the University of Gothenburg gave her the opportunity to study fortepiano with Malcolm Bilson, and clavichord with Harald Vogel. 2008–2013 she was on the faculty of the Hochschule für Künste Bremen. Her solo CD ‘Haydn Sonatas. Galanterien to Sturm und Drang’ has been released on Loft Recordings. In 2013 she was the recipient of Adlerbertska konststipendiet.

Joel Speerstra is a Senior Researcher at the Göteborg Organ Art Center and a Lecturer at the Academy of Music and Drama at the University of Gothenburg. He is active as an instrument builder, performer, teacher, and musicologist.He studied the organ with William Porter and David Boe at Oberlin Conservatory before continuing in Europe on several grants that allowed him to study organ and clavichord with Harald Vogel as well as instrument building with John Barnes.The bulk of his recent concert-playing has been divided between the organ and the clavichord, often linked directly to a conference, masterclass or summer course.With Per Anders Terning has built more than fifty pedal clavichords, and manual clavichords, for individuals and institutions in Europe, North America, and Asia. He is a recent recipient of the Hilding Rosenberg prize in Musicology from the Royal Swedish Academy of Music.

In Vienna:
Johannes Ebenbauer
Manuel Schuen
Greta Haenen