Fernando De Luca

In 1992 he obtained his diploma in harpsichord at the Conservatory of Santa Cecilia in Rome under the direction of Paola Bernardi, with the best grades and honors.

He is interested in the problem of philological interpretation of the harpsichord repertoire of the 17th and 18th centuries, paying particular attention to the study and practice of historical tunings.

In 1994, he won first prize in the Gambi harpsichord competition of the Gioacchino Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro From 1994 to 2003, both as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, he was invited by numerous Italian and foreign concert institutions such as the Gonfalone (Rome), the Lazio Regional Orchestra, Estate Fiesolana, Sagra musical umbra, Segni barocchi, Santa Cecilia, the Salento Baroque Festival, the Tagliacozzo Festival, the French Academy of the Villa Medici.

As a harpsichord teacher, he collaborates in the performance of two oratorios based on a text by Metastasio, the Passione di Gesù Cristo by Antonio Salieri and Giuseppe Riconosciuto by Pasquale Anfossi, performed in Rome in the Church of the Stigmata (recorded by Raisat and Radio Tre) and in Vienna in the Minoritenkirche and the Michaelerkirche.

Royer and founded in 2006 the “Sala del Cembalo del Caro Sassone”, initially designed to achieve the online publication of the complete works for harpsichord by G.F. Handel, as well as rare French, German, English and Italian repertoires, like the complete works of R.Jones, T. Chilcot, T. Arne, Jean Baptiste Loeillet of Ghent, Pierre Février, François d'Agincourt, J. Sheeles and many others, which has now become the largest source of recordings made by a professional harpsichordist in the world.