Why play early music on the accordion?

Simply because it is beautiful.

It is a new and fascinating experience which allows me to find new dynamics and colours in the voice; the accordion fuses perfectly with the tone of my voice creating a delicate and passionate atmosphere.

My recent collaborations with Giorgio have reinforced my belief that a countertenor and a "baroque" accordion player have so much to communicate together.

Michele Andalò, countertenor, studied with William Matteuzzi, Gloria Banditelli, Claudine Ansermet and Cristina Miatello. He is also doctor in Medieval History.

His performing career has been very intense in Italy: “Festival dei due Mondi” in Spoleto, “Ravenna Festival”, “OperaEstate” in Milano (solo performance in Carmina Burana by Orff with the Coro della Scala di Milano under the direction of Gabbiani), “Milano Classica”, “Festival dell’Aurora” in Crotone (direction of René Clemencic), “Festival delle Ville Tuscolane” in Roma, “Musica Insieme” in Bologna, etc..

He also performed in Germany (“Festival Rossiniano” in Wilbad), Switzerland (“Primavera concertistica” in Lugano), Denmark (“Odsherreds Festival”, S. Markus Kirke in Copenaghen, Cathedral of Helsingor, Frederiksberg Slotskirke, etc.), France (Festival “Les Baroquiales” in Roya-Bevera), Portugal (Teatro Nacional Sao Carlo in Lisbona) and in Austria (“AGMÖ 2009”, “Bildungshaus St. Arbogast”, “Emsiana 2011”).

He sang with the Cappella Arcivescovile of San Petronio in Bologna and the Ensemble MusicaRara in Milano.

Since 1997 has been performing with the harpsichord player Marco Farolfi.

Since 1998 he has been soloist of the ensemble AnimAntica in Bologna, a group specialized in unpublished sacred repertoire of XVIII Century.

He also sings opera. He sang “Podestà di Colognole” by J. Melani at the Teatro La Pergola in Firenze under the direction of J.C. Malgoire and he was Alfonso in “Dionisio Re di Portogallo”, direction of Alan Curtis, at the Teatro Sao Carlo in Lisbona.

He recorded for “Somm-Recordings”, “Bongiovanni”, “Brilliant” and partecipated to the creation of a Cd-Rom untitled “La nascita dell’Opera” distributed by the italian magazine “Amadeus”.

He recently recorded a CD dedicated to Alessandro Stradella with the ensemble “Animantica” and the soprano Alena Dantcheva.

He worked with BBC to realize the DVD “Castrato”, dedicated to Farinelli.

Currently he lives and teaches baroque singing in Vorarlberg (Austria).