Miguel Rincón & Il Pomo d' Oro
Biography Miguel Rincón & Il Pomo d' Oro
Miguel Rincón
was born in 1979. He is a lutanist playing a wide repertoire of music for early, plucked string-instruments: Renaissance lute, Baroque lute, Baroque guitar, Vihuela, Chitarrone and Archlute. He plays with a number of renowned ensembles who are specialised in new ways of establishing authentic performance of Early Music and in developing new methods of improvisation. He studied at the Manuel Castillo School of Music with Juan Carlos Rivera specialising in plucked instruments, where he received First Class Honours with distinction. Later he took a Master´s degree under Xavier Díaz Latorre at Esmuc (The Catalonia College of Music) and a further Master’s degree at Zürich University of the Arts where he received lessons from Eduardo Egüez. He worked for two years as professor of music for plucked instruments at the Salamanca Conservatory of Music. He is currently a freelance performing musician, living in Basel, Switzerland. He has attended numerous Master Classes given by notable contemporary lutanists: Rolf Lislevand, Robert Barto, Paul O’dette, Hopkinson Smith, in addition to studying chamber music with Vittorio Ghielmi, Paolo Pandolfo, Gabriel Garrido, and others. He has also performed alongside famous musicians in the international world of Early Music: Philippe Jaroussky, Cecilia Bartoli, Giovanni Antonini, Max Emanuele Cenčić, Roberta Invernizzi, Diego Fasolis, Roberta Mameli, Andrés Gabetta, Edgardo Rocha, Furio Zanasi, Nuria Rial, Vivica Genaux, Mariana Flores, Natalie Stutzmann, Patricia Petibon, Alfredo Bernardini, Enrico Onofri, Pierre Cao, Pedro Esteban, Stephano Barneschi, Manfredo Kraemer, Leonardo García Alarcón, Anne Hallenberg, Mira Glodeanu, etc. He has been commissioned to play in numerous festivals and theatres around the world, including the Royal Concertgebouw (Amsterdam), Wien Konzerthaus, La Seine Musical (Paris), Philarmonie de Paris, Palau Barcelona, Teatro real & Nacional (Madrid), Oji Hall (Tokyo), Izumi Hall (Osaka), StaatsOper (Berlin), Wigmore Hall & Barbican (London), Bijloke Theater (Gante), Teatro Colón (Buenos Aires), La Scala (Milan)…
He has made a number of acclaimed recordings for Warner Erato and Decca with ensembles such as Orfeo 55 (Nathalie Stutzmann), Akademie für Alte Musik, I Barrochisti (Diego Fasolis), IL Pomo Doro, Musiciens du Prince, Capella Gabetta, etc and three solo recordings as soloist dedicated to Johann Sebastian Bach on the Baroque Lute (produced by Carpe Diem records), one Renaissance CD with works by Spinacino, Schlick, and Attaignant (Lindoro Records) and another one dedicated to Spanish baroque guitar music (Lindoro Records). One fourth is coming with transcriptions for archlute of Cello Sonatas by Bach.
Il Pomo d' Oro
was founded in 2012. The ensemble was named after Antonio Cesti’s 1666 opera for the wedding celebrations of Leopold I and Margarita Teresa of Spain, one of the largest, most expensive and most spectacular opera productions in the still young history of the genre.
The ensemble is characterized by its authentic, dynamic interpretation of operas and instrumental works from the Baroque and Classical periods. The musicians are all well-known specialists in the field of historically informed performance practice, working with conductors such as Riccardo Minasi, Stefano Montanari, George Petrou and Enrico Onofri. Concertmaster Zefira Valova leads the orchestra for various projects. Since 2016 Maxim Emelyanychev has been chief conductor, with Francesco Corti as principal guest conductor since 2019. il pomo d’oro appears regularly at Europe’s leading concert halls and festivals. Following the worldwide success of In War and Peace: Harmony Through Music with Joyce DiDonato, il pomo d’oro and Maxim Emelyanychev are now presenting My Favourite Things with the US mezzo-soprano.
The ensemble’s discography includes several opera recordings, such as Handel’s Agrippina with Joyce DiDonato, Serse, which won the prestigious Premio Abbiati del disco in Italy, Tamerlano, Partenope, Ottone and Apollo e Dafne, Leonardo Vinci’s Catone in Utica and Alessandro Stradella’s La doriclea, which won the German Record Critics’ Prize. Other recordings include recitals with Francesca Aspromonte, Emőke Baráth, Max Emanuel Cencic, Joyce DiDonato, Franco Fagioli, Ann Hallenberg, Jakub Józef Orliński, Lisette Oropesa and Xavier Sabata. Instrumental albums include Haydn’s violin and keyboard concertos, a cello album with Edgar Moreau, which won an Echo Klassik Award in 2016, Bach’s violin and keyboard concertos with Shunske Sato and Francesco Corti and virtuoso violin concertos with Dmitry Sinkovsky, which won the Diapason d’Or.
il pomo d’oro is an official ambassador of El Sistema Greece, a humanitarian project providing free musical education to children in Greek refugee camps. il pomo d’oro plays charity concerts and offers workshops and music lessons according to the El Sistema method on a frequent regular basis in various refugee camps in Greece.
