A music director, recorder player and musicologist, Pedro Memelsdorff has long been a member of Jordi Savall’s Hesperion XXI and of a duo with Andreas Staier.
In 1987 he founded the ensemble Mala Punica, specialized in late medieval polyphony and, in 2021, Arlequin Philosophe, specialized in French-Caribbean music of the 18th century. He has been performing with them or as a guest conductor in most European countries, in the USA, central and south America, Israel and Japan.
A former fellow of Villa I Tatti-Harvard in Florence, an Ernest-Bloch lecturer at Berkeley, a Blodgett Distinguished Artist at Harvard, and former director of the Schola Cantorum in Basel, he is now an affiliate researcher at the University of Tours and a member of the board of the Swiss Confederal Graduate School in Italian Civilization and of the Galleria dell’Accademia in Florence. A guest lecturer inter alia at the University of Oxford and the Scuola Normale di Pisa, he directs the Early Music Seminars of the Fondazione Giorgio Cini in Venice, and the concert series of Villa I Tatti in Florence.
www.malapunica.com/pedro-memelsdorff
