L'Accademia Il Giardino delle Muse diretta da Simone Erre è un ensemble specializzato in esecuzioni di musiche con strumenti originali. Il repertorio, a formazione variabile, spazia dal X al XXI secolo.

ACCADEMIA IL GIARDINO DELLE MUSE

The ensemble 

Accademia Il Giardino delle Muse

, directed by Simone Erre, was founded in 2001. Specialized in the instrumental and vocal repertoire of the Middle Ages, Renaissance and Baroque period, the ensemble, with a variable number of members, brings together important and established musicians in the field of early music. The ensemble held concerts in Italy and abroad for important early music festivals. In 2019 of particular note the medieval concert entitled Ave gloriosa Mater created for the concert season Vespri a San Vitale, part of the Ravenna Festival. In October 2014 was released for the Brilliant label its first CD entitled 

Preghiera

. In 2018, the CD 

Fantasia sopra La Sol Fa Re Mi

 was released for Studio Musica Production. The medieval programs are devoted to the monodic sacred repertoire (Sequences, Gregorian chant, Cantigas and Laude) and to the polyphonic one (Clauses and Motets of the School of Notre Dame and from the Codex Montpellier), as well as to the theme of bestiaries and to the instrumental music.

The Renaissance saw the ensemble engaged in programs ranging from the music of the Council of Constance (1414), to music at the time of Leonardo da Vinci. In particular, Il Giardino delle Muse focused on the ricercari of Palestrina, dance music and sacred music always by Palestrina, Lobo, Ingenieri.

Concerning the Baroque period, the programs include concerts/shows about the Shakespeare theatre and the tormented figure of Caravaggio. Occurring the Monteverdi’s anniversary in 2017, the ensemble realized a project concerning the figure of Orfeo in the early Baroque. It also performed sacred compositions by Monteverdi. Later it focused on the figure of A. Banchieri performing both his instrumental music and the representative madrigals such as La pazzia senile and La Barca di Venezia per Padova.

Referring to the late Baroque it devoted programs to the most important Italian and foreign authors performing sonatas and trio sonatas for recorder and basso continuo. Il Gardino delle Muse also executed an Easter oratorio by M. A. Charpentier, and music of the genre Musique de table.

Always interested in music of the twentieth and twenty-first century, important living composers have written compositions expressly dedicated to the Il Giardino delle Muse.

SIMONE ERRE

Simone Erre

 is a professor of recorder and baroque traversiere at the Conservatorio “A. Steffani” in Castelfranco Veneto and at the ISSM Conservatorio “F. Vittadini ” in Pavia. The didactic activity is completed with 

summer masterclasses and workshops

 among which we remember: the Academia degli Imperfetti in Pescara, the Early Musica Festival in Parma, Piceno Classica, a lecture entitled La musica per danza nel Rinascimento e Barocco at the Conservatorio of Trento and a masterclass in Tavernola Bergamasca.

He is the director and founder of the 

Accademia Il Giardino delle Muse

 ensemble with which he performs in concerts and in important early music festivals. With this ensemble he recorded for Brilliant Classic the CD entitled 

Preghiera 

which was also broadcast on radio in the United States of America. With the 

Accademia Il Giardino delle Muse

 he recorded the CD entitled 

Fantasia sopra La Sol Fa Mi Re 

for Studio Recording. He founded and directed the ensemble 

I Tesori di Orfeo

 with which recorded a CD entitled 

Air sur les Folies d'Espagne

 entirely devoted to the 17th century French Baroque, reviewed very positively by 

Amadeus magazine

 in February 2014. This work was broadcast live on 

Radio Rai 3

 in 2013 and again on Radio Rai 3 as the latest release. He was director of the ensemble 

Il Biancofiore

, specialized in the European Renaissance repertoire, with whom he recorded a CD entitled

 Contrapunto bestiale a la mente

. In 2009 this work was broadcast live on Radio Rai 3.

With the ensembles that he directed and founded, he performed in important festivals in Italy and abroad. He has 

more than 500 concerts

 to his credit. In June 2019 with the 

Accademia Il Giardino delle Muse

 he took part to the concert season Vespri a San Vitale for the 

Ravenna Festival

 and 

toured Japan

 going to the cities of Osaka, Okinawa and Obu. He also performed in other important international festivals: 

Le Mani Sapienti

 in Milano, 

Mo.Ca. Suona

 in Brescia, Festival "Onde Musicali sul Lago d’Iseo", 

Festival Musica Antica Note e Sapori

 of Polcenigo (PN), 

I Concerti della domenica

 of Marostica (VI), 

Giovani in Musica

 in Treviso, 

Musica Antica in Casa Giorgione

, 

Le Trame del Giorgione, Note in Chiostro 

e

 Ville in Musica 

in Castelfranco Veneto (TV)

He was also speaker and flutist in several lectures-concerts, including: “

IL SUONO DEL ROMANICO: Musica e Arte tra XII e XIII secolo. Una panoramica.

" held at the Cinema Theatre Politeama in Pavia and previously at the lecture-concert entitled "

 Musica a Versaille, una lunga storia d’amore

 " at Palazzo Morello in Castelfranco Veneto.

A part of his artistic activity is recorded on CDs for Giuglia , Tactus, Red, Stradivarius and Brilliant. Soon to be released will be a CD with the instrumental ensemble 

Daltrocanto

 directed by Paolo Zuccheri and the choir 

Ernesto Dalla Libera

 directed by Massimo Donadello on a sacred music program composed by contemporary authors.

He carries out a 

musicological activity

 and in 2004 the Rivista Catalana de Musicologia published his article entitled 

Tra

pratica e teoria: da quali taglie è costituito un consort di traverse? 

In addition to the recorder diploma earned with full marks at the Conservatorio of Vicenza, he graduated in flute at the Conservatorio of Piacenza and in baroque traversiere at the Civica Scuola di Musica in Milan. He then obtained a post-graduate diploma in teaching from the University of Paleography and Musicology in Cremona.