Ottaviano Tenerani


Ottaviano Tenerani is an Italian keyboard player, conductor, musicologist. He is the leader of Il Rossignolo, an ensemble on period instruments that he founded in 1998 together with the flautist Marica Testi and the recorder and oboe player Martino Noferi.

Biography

Ottaviano Tenerani who has specialized in the interpretation of baroque and classical music, is active both as performer and researcher. He has appeared as conductor and keyboard player in hundreds of concerts and numerous recordings for labels such as Sony Classical. / Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, CPO, Tactus, Brilliant Classics, and Dynamic.
Much involved in musicological research, he has presented modern day first performances of vocal and instrumental music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Caldara, Johann Joachim Quantz, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Orazio Caccini and Giovanni Battista Martini.
He discovered the serenade Germanico, attributed to Händel, that he recorded with Il Rossignolo in 2011 for Sony Classical. The critical acclaim won by this recording launched further collaboration between Tenerani and Sony Classical with the recording of the complete solo sonatas by Georg Friedrich Händel and other music from the unedited sacred and secular Italian repertoires.

Teaching

Ottaviano Tenerani is professor of historical keyboard, chamber music and curator of the collection of musical instruments at the Accademia Internazionale d’Organo e Musica Antica Giuseppe Gherardeschi in Pistoia and teach in several master classes and academies. Since 2023 he has been professor of the Master's Degree in chamber music and of the courses in musical improvisation and basso continuo at the Luigi Boccherini Conservatory in Lucca.

Discography (selective)

Critical editions and Essays