Michele Benuzzi  

Michele Benuzzi studied the harpsichord with Ottavio Dantone and obtained the harpsichord Performing Diploma at the Royal College of Music in London. In 2003 he won the third prize at the seventeenth Yamanashi International Harpsichord Competition in Japan. From 1995 to 2002 in France, he promoted, and played with other harpsichordists, the opera omnia of Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas. He founded Arcomelo, a group performing seventeenth and eighteenth-century music.

With Arcomelo he has recorded C. P. E. Bach’s harpsichord concertos and W. F. Bach’s harpsichord concertos and sinfonias, both for the label ‘La Bottega Discantica’ in Milan: the CDs were acclaimed by music critics. He has also recorded a selection of Domenico Scarlatti’s Sonatas, using the 1764 Johann Adolf Hass harpsichord in the Russell Collection in Edinburgh. Appreciated for the expressiveness of his performance and for the beautiful quality of his tone production, he is invited to perform as a soloist in Europe, Asia and Australia.