Lorenzon Ghielmi, Guest Conductor

Italian organist and harpsichordist Lorenzo Ghielmi is organist on the Ahrend organ (1991) at the Basilica di San Simpliciano in Milan, where he performed the complete organ works of J.S. Bach from 1992 to 1994.  He performs throughout Europe, Japan and the USA and has made many radio and CD recordings, including for Teldec, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Ars Musici, and Winter & Winter.  He plays with La Divina Armonia, his instrumental ensemble, and in duet with his younger brother Vittorio (viola da gamba and harpsichord).  In France, he received the Diapason d’Or for his recordings of Bruhns and Bach.  He also played organ and harpsichord in the first recordings of the noted Baroque ensemble Il Giardino Armonico.  Ghielmi, teaches organ, harpsichord and early music at the Milan Accademia Internazionale della Musica.  He also taught for several years as invited professor in Trossingen and at the Hoschule für Musik in Lübeck.  He is often invited to sit on juries for international organ competitions, including those in Toulouse, Tokyo, Bruges, Freiberg, Maastricht, Lausanne, Nuremberg, Landsberg, and Chartres.  He also gives lectures and master-classes in many institutions of music, including the prestigious Haarlem's Summer-Academy.  He was the main artistic consultant for the new Mascioni organ constructed at Tokyo cathedral.  Ghielmi combines his concert activities with a passion for musicological research.  He has published editions of music by Frescobaldi and composers from Milan, as well as studies on 16th and 17th century organ building, and on the interpretation of works of Bach.  He recently wrote a book on Nicolaus Bruhns's organ works.

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