Biography
Il Giardino Armonico
Effective period / Period of releases: 1989 - 2021
Members: Viktoria Mullova, Simon Schouten, Ottavio Dantone, Marco Cera, Hans-Peter Westermann, Max Engel, Jean Tubéry, Alessandro Tampieri, Daniela Nuzzoli, Lorenzo Ghielmi, Vittorio Ghielmi, Christophe Coin, Fabrizio Cipriani, Alberto Grazzi, Gianni Maraldi, Anne Speer, Francesco Cera, Paolo Rizzi, Gabriele Cassone, Omar Zoboli, Luca Marsana, Elin Gabrielsson, Giovanni Antonini, Paolo Biordi, Enrico Onofri, Luca Pianca, Michele Barchi, Edward Deskur, Glen Borling, Vanni Moretto, Dmitry Sinkovsky, Martin Mürner, Johannes Hinterholzer, Paolo Grazzi, Luca Guglielmi, Luca Giardini, Duilio M. Galfetti, Marco Testori, Alberto Stevanin, Paolo Beschi, Federica Valli, Stefano Barneschi, Charlie Fischer, Alberto Guerra, Patxi Montero, Simone Bensi, Konstantin Timokhine, Ernesto Braucher, Riccardo Minasi, Petr Zejfart, Rodney Prada, Marco Bianchi (3), Maria Cristina Vasi, Joachim Held, Giancarlo De Frenza, Elena Russo, Elena Confortini, Liana Mosca, Riccardo Doni, Francesco Lattuada, Francesco Colletti, Marco Brolli, Juan Francisco Padilla, Katrin Krauß, Chandra R. Mäder, Judith Huber (2), Mirjam Töws
Il Giardino Armonico ("The Harmonious Garden") is a pioneering Italian early music ensemble founded in Milan in 1985 by Luca Pianca and Giovanni Antonini, primarily to play 17th- and 18th-century music on period instruments.