Leonardo García Alarcón

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Alarcon receives the Namur City Ambassador award (2018)

Leonardo García Alarcón (born August 5, 1976 in La Plata ) is an Argentine conductor , harpsichordist and organist who mainly works in the field of historical performance practice .

Life

Leonardo García received his first piano lessons at the age of six. At the age of 15 he became a member of the Toccata Instrumentale ensemble, which played on historical instruments. This experience made it possible for him to become familiar with the practice of playing figured bass . At the same time, he began his piano studies at the conservatory in his hometown of La Plata. He made his first experiences as a conductor as the head of the orchestra at the National University of La Plata. He added organ and harpsichord to his studies. After receiving his diploma, Leonardo García came to the Conservatory of Geneva in the class of Christiane Jaccottet , at the same time he attended theoretical courses at the Center de Musique Ancienne de Genève (Center for Ancient Music) and became a member of the Ensemble Elyma under Gabriel Garrido , who gave him made his assistant at college. In 2003 he received the diploma of "Maestro al Harpsichord" (ensemble leader on the harpsichord) in the class of Alfonso Fedi.

In 1999 he founded the Cappella Mediterranea in Geneva, which specialized in the interpretation of Spanish and Latin American baroque music.They received numerous invitations to several renowned early music festivals, and in 2003 they made their first CD recording with Andalusian baroque music from 17th century Mexico .

Since 2005 he has appeared increasingly with the Belgian Ensemble Clematis , founded by the violinist Stéphanie de Failly , with whom he made several recordings, one each with works by Nicolaus à Kempis , Carolus Hacquart , Carlo Farina Girolamo Frescobaldi , Matheo Romero and Giovanni Lenzei . In the same year he became co-founder and artistic director of the Geneva ensemble La Nouvelle Menestrandie. He also founded the Bach de La Plata baroque orchestra in his Argentinian hometown, which aims to introduce young musicians to historical performance practice.

The cellist Christophe Coin , the gambist Andrea di Carlo , the bassoonist Sergio Azzolini and the violinist Manfredo Kraemer should be mentioned as chamber music partners, among many others. With the Ensemble Elyma he took part in the Ambronay Festival for the first time in 1996, where he is now an “Artiste en résidence”.

As a musicologist in 2005 he was able to use manuscripts to prove that individual arias that had previously been assigned to the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart came from the pen of Niccolò Piccinni .

Leonardo García-Alarcón has been artistic director of the Monte-Carlo Opera since 2008 and honorary organist of several churches in Geneva. In 2008 he made recordings of unpublished motets and madrigals by Peter Philips and Barbara Strozzi for the Ambronay label with the Cappella Mediterranea . Since 2010 he has been chief conductor of the Choeur de chambre de Namur , succeeding Jean Tubéry . In 2009 he recorded the oratorio Judas Maccabaeus by Handel with the choir and the baroque orchestra Les Agrémens . A performance and recording of the oratorio Il diluvio universale by Michelangelo Falvetti and a cycle of previously unknown works by the Roman composer Giovanni Giorgi , published in 2011. From 2012 he dedicated himself to Falvetti's oratorio Il Nabucco . Several productions of operas by Francesco Cavalli followed with Elena , Eliogabalo , Erismena and Giasone . In 2018 Antonio Draghi's opera Aun vencido, vence Amor, ò El Prometeo was presented at the Opéra de Dijon , the lost third act of which he completely re-composed for the occasion.

Since 1999 García has been a lecturer in harpsichord and since 2004 professor of the thoroughbass class and the early music class at the Center de Musique Ancienne de Genève.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Splendeurs de la Polyphonie Romaine à la Chaise-Dieu, Août 2010 on YouTube (French)
  2. ^ Christiane Lehnigk: Trailblazer for great stage success. CD review from November 17, 2013 on Deutschlandfunk , accessed on May 15, 2016.
  3. ↑ Bruno Maury: La clémence de Jupiter. Review of the performance in Dijon on baroquiades.com, June 30, 2018 (French), accessed July 19, 2019.
  4. ^ CV on France Musique (in French)
  5. ↑ Multilingual curriculum vitae on the website of the Namur Chamber Choir ( Memento from September 11, 2014 in the Internet Archive )
personal data
SURNAME García Alarcón, Leonardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES García, Leonardo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian harpsichordist, organist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH 5th August 1976
PLACE OF BIRTH La Plata (city) , Argentina