Luca Guglielmi (Turin, Italy, 1977) is a conductor, composer, soloist on historical keyboards (harpsichord, organ, clavichord, and pianoforte), and musicologist known for his “historically informed” approach to music from all periods. Guglielmi’s extensive repertoire spans from Gesualdo to Stravinsky and he is deeply committed to the study and application of the phenomenology of music.
Guglielmi made his debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019 and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2023. His mentors in conducting include Jordi Savall, with whom he has collaborated since 1998, and Sir Simon Rattle.
In Italy, Guglielmi has conducted several prestigious orchestras, including the ORT-Orchestra Regionale Toscana, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, the Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, the Orchestra Milano Classica, the RAI Choir of Turin, and the Cappella Musicale di Santa Maria dei Servi in Bologna.
Recently, Guglielmi assisted Jordi Savall in ‘La Clemenza di Tito’ for the Mozartwoche in Salzburg and in orchestral projects with Le Concert des Nations, performing a repertoire that includes Beethoven’s nine symphonies and the Missa Solemnis, Schubert’s 8th and 9th symphonies, Mendelssohn’s “Italian Symphony,” and the incidental music from ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’.
Alongside his career as a conductor, Guglielmi is active as a soloist on harpsichord and organ, continuo player, chamber musician, and choir director since 1993. He received an “Honorable Mention” at the XII International Organ Competition in Bruges and studied under the direction of Ton Koopman, Patrizia Marisaldi, Vittorio Bonotto, Alessandro Ruo Rui, and Sergio Pasteris.
Guglielmi has collaborated with notable soloists such as Cecilia Bartoli, Sara Mingardo, Barbara Bonney, Philippe Jaroussky, Giuliano Carmignola, Paolo Pandolfo, Ottavio Dantone, Gabriele Cassone, Paul O’Dette, and Katia and Marielle Labéque. He has also worked with ensembles like Il Giardino Armonico, Ricercar Consort, Ensemble La Fenice, The Rare Fruits Council, Freiburger Barockorchester, and the National Orchestra of RAI under the baton of Jeffrey Tate, Roberto Abbado, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Ton Koopman, Robert King, and Ottavio Dantone.
Awarded two Diapason d’or and an Editor’s Choice from Gramophone magazine, Luca Guglielmi has an extensive discography of over fifty titles, more than twenty of which are solo recordings, covering a repertoire from Frescobaldi to Mozart for labels such as Decca, Teldec, Avi, Accent, cpo, Vivat, Hänssler Classics, Stradivarius, and Elegia.
As a passionate and enthusiastic teacher, he has taught ancient music courses in Pamparato, Barbaste, and Urbino. Since 2014, he has been a professor of harpsichord, pianoforte, and chamber music at the ESMuC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) in Barcelona.
