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Riccardo Minasi, was born in Rome in 1978. He has performed both as soloist as well as concertmaster with Le Concert des Nations of Jordi Savall, Accademia Bizantina, Concerto Italiano, Il Giardino Armonico, Al Ayre Español Orchestra dell’Accademia Nazionale di S.Cecilia, Orchestra of the Teatro Real of Madrid. He has also worked with the Concerto Vocale of René Jacobs, Ensemble 415, Luca Pianca, Viktoria Mullova, Albrecht Mayer, Christophe Coin and Reinhard Goebel. As a conductor he conducted the Kammerakademie de Potsdam, Zurich Kammerorchester, Balthasar Neumann Ensemble, Australian Brandenburg Orchestra, Orquesta Barroca Argentina, L'Arpa Festante, Recreation-Grosses Orchester of Graz, Attersee-Akademie Orchestra, ensemble Resonanz, Il Complesso Barocco and the Helsinki Baroque Orchestra, of which he is the associate director since 2008. In 2006 he was invited to conduct the opening concert of the Camerata Strumentale Fiesolana - the most recent formation created at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole of Piero Farulli. Invited by Kent Nagano he performed as concertmaster at the Belcanto Festival in Knowlton and collaborated as historical advisor for the Montrèal Symphony Orchestra in Canada. In 2010 he worked as assistant conductor, concertmaster, curator and editor of the critical edition (In collaboration of Maurizio Biondi) of the upcoming publication of the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini with Cecilia Bartoli and Thomas Hengelbrock. From 2004 to 2010 he was professor of chamber music at the Conservatorio V. Bellini of Palermo. He has also given violin and baroque orchestra master-classes, and lectures in historical practice at the Longy School of Music in Cambridge (USA), the Sibelius Academy of Helsinki, the Chinese Culture University of Taipei (Taiwan), the Kùks Residence in the Czech Republic, at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, and, as the italian representative of the jury in 2009, at the auditions for the European Union Baroque Orchestra (EUBO). His recording of Biber’s Rosenkranz Sonaten published by Arts was a finalist at the Midem Classical Award in Cannes as album of the year in 2009.