Marcello
Gatti
Italian flutist Marcello Gatti completed his musical studies in his hometown of Perugia, developing an interest in early music and original instruments at a very young age, and subsequently studying in Rome and Verona. Under the guidance of Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands), he obtained his soloist diploma with honours in 1997.
A sought-after soloist and particularly appreciated by critics for his sensitive virtuosity, great cantabile and stylistic competence, he has given concerts all over the world, performing a vast repertoire on Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic transverse flutes, with some of the most renowned and specialised chamber and orchestral ensembles in the field: Ensemble Aurora, Ensemble Zefiro, Accademia Bizantina, Europa Galante, Le Concerts de Nations, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, L’Orfeo Barock Orchester, Hofkapelle München, Cantus Cölln, Attaignant Consort, Ensemble 1700, Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Il Pomo d’Oro, Salzburger Hofmusik, Gaechinger Cantorei, Boston Early Music orchestra, Köthener Bach Collektiv and many more.
He has participated in over 90 audio and video recordings with historical and period instruments.
Since 1995, he has been enthusiastically dedicated to teaching and has held courses and masterclasses at numerous institutions. After teaching in Milan, Verona and Vicenza (Italy) and at the Hochschule “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig (Germany), since 2014 he has been professor of historical transverse flute at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and, since 2024, also at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz, as well as teaching summer courses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy) and the Fondazione Italiana Musica Antica in Urbino (since 1998).
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Italian flutist Marcello Gatti completed his musical studies in his hometown of Perugia, developing an interest in early music and original instruments at a very young age, and subsequently studying in Rome and Verona. Under the guidance of Barthold Kuijken at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague (Netherlands), he obtained his soloist diploma with honours in 1997.
A sought-after soloist and particularly appreciated by critics for his sensitive virtuosity, great cantabile and stylistic competence, he has given concerts all over the world, performing a vast repertoire on Renaissance, Baroque, Classical and Romantic transverse flutes, with some of the most renowned and specialised chamber and orchestral ensembles in the field: Ensemble Aurora, Ensemble Zefiro, Accademia Bizantina, Europa Galante, Le Concerts de Nations, Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra, Tafelmusik, L’Orfeo Barock Orchester, Hofkapelle München, Cantus Cölln, Attaignant Consort, Ensemble 1700, Hofkapelle Stuttgart, Il Pomo d’Oro, Salzburger Hofmusik, Gaechinger Cantorei, Boston Early Music orchestra, Köthener Bach Collektiv and many more.
He has participated in over 90 audio and video recordings with historical and period instruments.
Since 1995, he has been enthusiastically dedicated to teaching and has held courses and masterclasses at numerous institutions. After teaching in Milan, Verona and Vicenza (Italy) and at the Hochschule “Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy” in Leipzig (Germany), since 2014 he has been professor of historical transverse flute at the Mozarteum University in Salzburg and, since 2024, also at the Anton Bruckner Privatuniversität in Linz, as well as teaching summer courses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena (Italy) and the Fondazione Italiana Musica Antica in Urbino (since 1998).