Ottaviano Tenerani

Ottaviano Tenerani (born 14 February 1969, in Pontedera, Italy) is an Italian keyboard player, conductor, musicologist.

He is the leader of Il Rossignolo, an ensemble on period instruments that he founded in 1998 together with the flautist Marica Testi and the recorder and oboe player Martino Noferi.

He has appeared as conductor and keyboard player in hundreds of concerts and numerous recordings for labels such as Sony Classical.

Much involved in musicological research, he has presented modern day first performances of vocal and instrumental music by Alessandro Scarlatti, Georg Friedrich Händel, Antonio Caldara, Johann Joachim Quantz, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Orazio Caccini and Giovanni Battista Martini.

Since 2008, he has had an affiliation with the Istituto Superiore di Studi Musicali Rinaldo Franci [13] in Siena providing master classes in historical performance practice and harpsichord.