Gianfranco Russo

Viola player, has dedicated profoundly to historically informed performance on original instruments and has played with some of the major European and Italian ensembles and artists in the field such as S.Kuijken, C.Rousset, P.Hantai, G.Leonardt, G.Garrido, S.Preston, R.Terakado, F.Fernandez, L.Van Dael, A.Curtis, A.Bijlsma, S.Ross…. He has specialized in medieval and renaissance strings; he plays the medieval fiddle, the rebec, the symphonia, the viola and the lira da braccio with the ensemble Cantilena Antiqua (Bologna) and as a director with the ensemble Chominciamento di Gioia (Rome). He has played in Italy, France, Germany, Holland, Belgium, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, Hungary, Poland, Lebanon, Portugal, Bolivia, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, and Turkey. He performed for the most prestig