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The Argentinian guitarist and lautenist, Evangelina Mascardi, graduated in classical guitar and started her concert career as a highly gifted young soloist. In 1997 she moved to Europe to study with Hopkinson Smith at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis (Basel, Switzerland), where she obtained her “Solisten Diplom” in 2001.
Evangelina Mascardi is considered one of the most prominent lute players on the international scene. During the last decade she collaborated regularly as a continuo-player with Jordi Savall (Hespèrion XXI, Marc Minkowski (Les Musiciens du Louvre), Andrea Marcon (Venice Baroque Orchestra), Giovanni Antonini (Il Giardino Armonico), Chiara Banchini (Ensemble 415), Simon Rattle (Berliner Philharmoniker). With them and other ensembles she took part in more than 30 recordings. Nowadays, she confines her collaboration to Ensemble Zefiro (Director: Alfredo Bernardini) and Monteverdi Choir (Director: Sir John Eliot Gardiner), in order to mainly focus on solo lute repertoire.
Constantly praised by critics, Evangelina Mascardi has performed recitals in a number of early music festivals such as Fringe (Barcellona), Concentus (Brno), Resonanzen (Vienna), Luth et Theorbe (Genêve), Early Music Festival (London), Musica Antigua Festival (Daroca), Forum Musicum (Breslau), and guitar festivals in Madrid, Treviso, Santander, Castell’Arquato, Pordenone and Novara.
Evangelina Mascardi has five solo albums to her credit, two devoted to J.S. Bach and Silvius Leopold Weiss (ORF-Alte Musik, Austria 2003 and 2009), one to refined and original theorbo solos by the Modena-born Bellerofonte Castaldi (Arcana, 2011), one to the Belgian lutenist and composer Laurent de Saint-Luc (Musique en Wallonie, 2018), and the latest recently devoted to the complete lute works of J.S. Bach (Arcana, 2022).
Evangelina Mascardi teaches Lute at the ISSM ”Conservatorio A. Vivaldi" in Alessandria (Italy). Since 2020 she is a member of the Scientific Commette of the Convegno internazionale di chitarra (Milan) and since 2021 of the Directive Board of the Italian Lute Society. She currently lives in Orte, Lazio, Italy. |
