ENSEMBLE "GIROLAMO FRESCOBALDI", founded in 1975, is set up from musicians engages from years in the study and the dissemination of a music literature that spaces from late Rinascimento to the contemporary production.

Its main attempts are to take the listeners to that immense repertoire of musics written expressly for brass and organ and to value these instruments in chambermusic.

As far as regard the ancient music, the particularly attention will be addressed:

a) to the Italian school, with special regard to the veneziana school, to the works of the active musicians in the Basilica of S. Marco;

b) to the English school, in particular to the shape of the "Voluntary";

c) to the German literature recovering also that immense repertoire connected to the ancient profession of the "Stadtpfeifer" (city players).

Beside this literature the group has a original program of romantic and contemporary authors.

All the members of the Ensemble have to their assets collaborations with orchestras and lyric agencies (Theatre La Fenice of Venice, Arena of Verona, Haydn Orchestra of Bolzano and Trento, Orchestra da Camera of Padova, Teatro Regio of Parma) let alone course of improvement with the best international Masters.

In its more than twenty-five years of activity the group has carried out more than 600 concerts participating to Festival, Musical Reviews and carrying out tournées to the foreign country (Austria, Germany, Czechoslovakia, Denmark and Belgium) with excellent consents of public and critic.

Recently it has recorded a CD from the title: "Musiche per ottoni, timpani e organo del Rinascimento e Barocco Europeo" and other recordings are in short predication. New pubblication of 2008 is "Omaggio all’organo Bonatti", brass and choral-brass music dedicated to the once of the most ancient (1708) and famous italian organ' s builder.

Performance of group
Formazione base:
MARIO CALDONAZZI trumpets
AUGUSTO RIGHI trumpets
MICHELE FAIT french horn
FABIO MATTIVI trombone / euphonium
ROBERTO RONCHETTI tuba

GAETANO TELLA percussion
TARCISIO BATTISTI organ

- Trio: trumpet, trombone ed organ, with concert to hold in Church and late program rinascimentale-baroque with songs orchestrates them together and solistic.
- Quartet and organ + (opz.) percussions : 2 trumpets, french horn, trombone/euphonium, percussions and organ, with concert to execute on the organ of the parochial churches of place. In the eventuality of use of the portable organ the concert can be executed also to the open adapting itself particularly to events celebrated in the courts of palaces, castles or public squares.
- Brass Ensemble: the formation can vary from a minimum of 5 elements (2 bugles, horn, trombone, percussions), to 6 elements (+tuba) until 7 elements (3 bugles, horn, trombone, tuba and percussions). The proposed program, of all the singular one, has like topic "music from court" of the XVI and XVII century: Entrances, Battles, Fanfare, Suites of dances, etc composed purposely in order to celebrate events are to civil character who religious, or for entertainment, particularly adapted therefore to being executed to the open, in the courts of antique palaces or castles.
- Large Ensemble: For particular events (great festivities of public square or historical rappresentation with fireworks, etc), the Ensemble introduces: 3 trumpets, 2 bugles, 3 horns, 3 trombones, baritone, tuba and percussions; an organic one in a position to introducing large effect's songs like the Sacrae Symphoniae of G. Gabrieli, Water Music and Music for the royalFireworks of G.F. Handel and the solemn Entrances of J.B. Lully.