Giovanni Acciai

Unanimously recognized as one of the greatest interpreters of the Renaissance and Baroque vocal repertoire, Giovanni Acciai is graduated in organ, composition and choir conducting and specialized in “Paleography and musical philology” at the University of Pavia. He is an emeritus professor of Musical Palaeography in the Musicology Course at the «Giuseppe Verdi» Conservatory in Milan. Formerly director of the vocal music magazine “La Cartellina” and “The Musical Offer”, he has numerous revisions of ancient music, musicological essays, translations to his credit. Director of the “University Choral of Turin” (from 1975 to 1983), of the “Choir of the Theater” of Bologna (1981-1982) and of the “Chamber Choir of the Italian Radio Broadcasting and Television (RAI)“ of Rome (from 1989 and until