Michele Carreca
As a soloist he played for Roma Festival Barocco, Istituto Storico Austriaco a Roma, Festival S.Giacomo in Bologna, Festival Intona Rumori in Palermo, Apulia Antiqua in Monopoli, Copenhagen Renaissance Festival (Denmark), Ljubljana Musicologial Insitute (Slovenia), Early Music Alberta (Canada), Festivalul Baroc Timisoara (Romania), Palace of the Grandukes of Lithuania, etc. He is an enthusiast player of ensemble and chamber music with his plucked instruments, with wich he played for Gesellscahft der Musikfreunde in Wien in the Musikverein Wien, Brahms Saal, at the Europäische Wochen Festspiele Passau (Germany), “I Concerti del Quirinale di Radio 3” (Rome), “Piazza Verdi” Rai Radio 3 (Milano), “Trigonale Festival” (Austria), “Stockholm Early Music Festival” (Sweden), “Festiwal Muzyki Dawnej” Jarosław (Poland), “Festival Camino de Santiago” (Spain), Istituto Italiano di Cultura New York City (United States), Festival “Musique et Memoire” (France), the Staedel Museum in Frankfurt (Germany), the Alte Pinakothek in Munich (Germany), the Italian Cultural Institute in Munich (Germany), Herzog Anton Ulrich Museum Braunschweig (Germany), Festival Antiqva, Barcelona (Spain), the Juan March Foundation in Madrid (Spain), for the National Gallery in London (Great Britain), “Festival international de musique andalouse et des musiques anciennes” in Algiers, (Algeria) “Mostra Internacional de Musica Antigua” in Curitiba, Brazil, for Universidade Federal in Rio de Janeiro (Brazil), for the European Early Music Day of Rema, in Uzghorod (Ucrain), “Festival der Laute” in Dresden (Germany), “Nuove Settimane Barocche” in Brescia, “Urbino Musica Antica”, “Accademia Filarmonica Romana” in Rome, “World Bach-Fest” in Florence, “Echi Lontani” Festival in Cagliari, “Segni Barocchi” in Perugia, the concert season of “Centro di Musica Antica Pietà dei Turchini” in Naples, “Musica ai Frari” in Venice, etc. In Baroque operas he played under the direction of John Eliot Gardiner, Andrea Marcon, Alessandro De Marchi, Chiara Banchini, among others.
He has made recordings both as a soloist and as a chamber musician for Deutsche Grammophon, Sony- DHM, Ayros, Da Vinci, CPO, BrilliantClassics, Classic Voice-Antiqua, Continuo Records, Ipsar, Rai
Trade, Urania Records. He’s been Professor of lute and early plucked instruments at Conservatorio A.Scontrino in Trapani and Conservatorio A.Scarlatti in Palermo.
