The conductor, keyboard player, singer, composer, and linguistic coach Alessandro Quarta is the founder and director of Concerto Romano, an ensemble dedicated to Roman and other Italian repertoire from the 16th to 18th centuries. He has performed in Italy, Austria, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands, Switzerland, the United States, and Mexico. and has released numerous CDs, including the world premiere recording of Bernardo Pasquini’s Sete di Christo, which was awarded the 2016 Diapason d’or; Sacred music for the poor, which won the Prix Caecilia in 2015; Soto: 20 laudi spirtuali (for Brilliant); and Missing Vittorio (2024) which received five stars from Musica. Quarta is guest conductor at the Teatro de Roma, Theater Kiel, Staatstheater Darmstadt, Oper Köln, and the Teatro Comunale di Ferrara. His musical collaborations (as guest conductor, coach, and continuo player) include the Boston Early Music Festival Ensemble, the Consortium Carissimi of Minneapolis, Progetto Syntagma, Darmstädter Barocksolisten, Ecclesia Nova of Verona, Blue Heron, Ensemble Voces Suaves of Basel, and the National Baroque Orchestra of Italian Conservatories. He has also coached the Ensemble Vocal du Luxembourg and the Arnold Schoenberg Chor in Vienna. From 2019 to 2025 he was professor of ensemble music in the early music department of the Conservatorio E. F. Dall’Abaco in Verona and collaborated as a professor with the Hochschule für Kunst Bremen and the Hochschule für Musik un Tanz (University of Music and Dance) in Cologne. He has taught at the International Early Music Course in Urbino organized by the Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica (FIMA) since 2007 and has been Artistic Director of the Urbino International Festival of Early Music since 2018. In 2022, he was named president of the Fondazione Italiana per la Musica Antica.