22nd International Festival “Ars vivendi clavicembalum” – CHIARA TIBONI

Chiara Tiboni, Italian harpsichordist, holds the Chair of Harpsichord and Historical Keyboards and serves as Coordinator of the Early Music Department at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, Italy. She is inviting us on a journey through the European harpsichord schools of the 17th and 18th centuries, presenting a program that interweaves styles, forms, and affects, and captures the richness and variety of the harpsichord repertoire. This concert is organized in collaboration with The Italian Institute of Culture in Belgrade.

Program:
Alessandro Stradella (1639–1682)
Toccata

Girolamo Frescobaldi (1583–1643)
Capriccio sopra l’Aria di Rugiero

Johann Caspar Ferdinand Fischer (1656–1746)
Musicalischer Parnassus – Suite Urania (excerpt)
Toccata
Passacaglia

Jacques Duphly (1715–1789)
La Pothouin
La De Vaucanson

Johann Sebastian Bach (1685–1750)
French Suite, for keyboard No. 6 in E major, BWV 817
Allemande – Courante – Sarabande – Polonaise – Menuet – Bourrée – Gigue

Concerto for solo keyboard No. 5 in C major, BWV 976 (after Vivaldi, Op. 3/12)
[Allegro] – Largo – Presto

Biography:
Chiara Tiboni, harpsichordist, holds the Chair of Harpsichord and Historical Keyboards and serves as Coordinator of the Early Music Department at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan, Italy. She has pursued an in-depth study of early music theory and performance practice under Kenneth Gilbert at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and the Hochschule für Musik “Mozarteum” in Salzburg, where she earned her diploma in 1990. She later specialized in basso continuo at the Santa Cecilia Conservatory in Rome.

She is the artistic director of the L’Architasto Musical Association in Rome, an organization dedicated to reviving interest in early keyboard instruments—harpsichord, clavichord, organ, and fortepiano. Since 2008, she has curated the International Festival of L’Architasto: The Harpsichord, with the aim of rekindling the splendor once enjoyed by keyboard music in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Rome.

Chiara Tiboni has performed for major opera and symphonic institutions and given numerous solo and chamber music concerts in Rome, Prague, Newcastle upon Tyne, Oxford, Edinburgh, Dublin, Warsaw, Toronto, Washington, Budapest, Lisbon, and Santander. She has been invited by the Italian Cultural Institute of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and by the University of Music in Oxford and Newcastle upon Tyne.

In 2021, for Edition HH (Oxford), she realized the basso continuo for 10 Passagagli per violoncello by Gaetano Francone, edited by Giovanna Barbati and Guido Olivieri.
Together with Francesco Maschio, she authored a didactic method for conservatories titled Il Basso continuo reso facile (Rugginenti Editions – Milan, 2022).

She has recorded for Brilliant Classics the Sonatas for Historical Clarinet and Harpsichord by Johann Baptist Vanhal, as well as Pergolesi’s La Serva Padrona.
For Da Vinci Classics, she recorded Le virtuose fatiche by Francesco Supriani in 2023 with the ensemble Les amies partmentistes. Most recently, in July 2024, she released a CD of the Trio Sonatas op. V by Giuseppe Aldrovandini (1671–1707) with the ensemble Archipelago.