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Giulio Prandi

Conductor and musicologist Giulio Prandi is the director of the Ghislieri Choir and Consort at Ghislieri College in Pavia. He specializes in Baroque music, and he has unearthed and performed many hitherto unknown works. Prandi was born in Italy in 1977. He attended the University of Pavia, where he graduated with degrees in singing and mathematics while also studying composition and conducting. Prandi has stated that his mathematical studies have influenced his approach to music. He went on to the Milan Conservatory, studying composition with Bruno Zanolini and choral music and choral conducting with Domenico Zingaro and Donato Renzetti. For two years, he attended the conducting classes of Mario Lanaro held at the Gubbio Festival. In 1997, while still a student, he was named the director of musical activities at Ghislieri College of Pavia, making his conducting debut at 21 there with a performance of Mozart's Requiem in D minor, D. 626. In 1999, he founded the Arlon Choir and Consort there. In 2003, Prandi founded the Ghislieri Choir and Consort, focusing on Baroque choral works. The group has performed works by famous composers, including Vivaldi, Pergolesi, and Mozart, as well as 20th century pieces by Bernstein, Stravinsky, and Orff. However, his most distinctive contributions have come in the revival of forgotten Baroque works. Prandi has prepared and performed works by moderately known composers such as Baldassare Galuppi and Niccolò Jommelli, as well as all-but-unknowns such as Emanuele d'Astorga and Giacomo Antonio Perti. His work has brought renown to the Ghislieri Choir and Consort, which has appeared at such major venues as the Philharmonie in Berlin, the Amsterdam Concertgebouw, and BOZAR in Brussels. Prandi is a frequent guest at early music festivals across Europe, and in 2019, he was the artist-in-residence at the Oude Muziek Festival in Utrecht, Netherlands. Prandi was heard with the Ghislieri Choir and Consort on a 2016 recording, Handel in Rome: 1707, released by Sony Classical. He has also recorded for Arcana, issuing a recording of Jommelli's Requiem on that label in 2020. Prandi often holds master classes and workshops on Baroque performance topics, and since 2017, he has taught choral singing at the Conservatorio Franco Vittadini in Pavia.
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