Accademia degli Affetti

Founded in 2024 as part of a solo vocal recording project, the ensemble brings together musicians united by a desire to explore and establish a subtle balance between words, sound and proportion: an ideal that evokes the golden ratio, a symbolic emblem and source of inspiration for the group.

 

The aim is to recreate and experiment with the musical practices characteristic of seventeenth-century academies, exploring the innovations of the period through constant creative dialogue and a philological approach that is, at the same time, vibrant and experimental.

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The ensemble explores the Italian and European repertoires of the early 17th century – a period of profound stylistic transformation – highlighting the infinite timbral nuances offered by period instruments and adapting the ensemble’s line-up on a case-by-case basis according to the programme and the acoustic space.

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The Accademia degli Affetti’s approach combines a focus on the sources with a contemporary sensitivity to musical colour and expression, restoring to the audience the vitality and poetry of a constantly evolving musical language, one that remains strikingly relevant even today.

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Through recording projects and concerts, the ensemble aims to bring rare works and forgotten masterpieces back to light, offering interpretations that combine rigour, creativity and musical imagination.