About
Vienna Baroque Soloists
The ensemble "Vienna Baroque Soloists" was founded in 2024 by Davide Mariano together with five musicians from different countries who work in Vienna. The ensemble’s members have gained experience over many years in the most important European baroque orchestras (including Europa Galante, Orchester Wiener Akademie, Concentus Musicus Wien, Les Musiciens du Louvre, Les Talens Lyriques, Clemencic Consort, Il Pomo D'Oro, Anima Eterna) and have performed worldwide.
The ensemble has a special focus on the repertoire of the 18th century. At the center of the work stays a historically informed performance practice, which the "Vienna Baroque Soloists" cultivate both on original instruments and on modern instruments, in order to reproduce the splendour of well-known and lesser-known works in a wide variety of venues.
The musicians: Davide Mariano - organ/harpsichord and conducting, Jenny Lippl - violin, Karol Gostynski - violin, Ivan Bečka - viola, Gabriel Weinhandl - cello, Jonas Carlsson - violone.
Davide Mariano (b. 1988) has appeared as a soloist at the organ in the most prestigious concert halls and cathedrals in Europe, America, and Japan, including Musikverein in Vienna, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Mariinksy Theatre in St. Petersburg, Konzerthaus Berlin, Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris, Suntory Hall in Tokyo, The Symphony Hall in Osaka, and The Cleveland Museum of Art, as well as for festivals from Rome to Helsinki and from Tel Aviv to Cleveland.
Mariano has been organist in residence at the Sapporo Concert Hall “Kitara” (Japan) and at the St. Louis Cathedral in New Orleans (USA).
He has gained prizes in some of the most important international organ competitions (St Albans, Amsterdam, Kaliningrad, etc.). Both as a solo organist, harpsichordist, and pianist as well as an orchestra player he collaborated with renowned orchestras like the ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Orchester Wiener Akademie, Tokyo Symphony Orchestra, Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra, and Orchestra del Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, working with conductors such as D. Gatti, M. Pommer, C. M. Prieto, M. Haselböck, and R. Goebel. He made is debut as a conductor with the Orchester Wiener Akademie at the festival “Festspiele Mecklenburg-Vorpommern” in 2019. In 2023 he conducted from the harpsichord the production of J. A. Hasse’s opera "Marc'Antonio e Cleopatra" for "Teatro Barocco" at Stift Göttweig (Austria), with an extraordinary succes by public and critique.
Davide Mariano gave organ masterclasses in Japan, in the USA and in Italian Music Conservatories. At present he is tenured professor for Organ at the State Music Conservatory “Jacopo Tomadini” in Udine (Italy).
Mariano has studied organ, organ improvisation, harpsichord, and conducting at the conservatories and music universities of his hometown Campobasso, Vienna (MDW), Paris (CNSMDP), Stuttgart (HMDK), and Linz (Bruckneruni), in the classes of F. Di Lernia, M. Haselböck, M. Bouvard, O. Latry, L. Robilliard, J. Essl, G. Murray, and G. Leopold.
For years, Davide Mariano has devoted a significant part of his artistic work as a keyboard instrumentalist to the performance of early music. Already in 2015 he was awarded the “Peter Hurford Bach Prize“ at the St Albans International Organ Competition for his Bach interpretations. In order to extend his knowledge of historically informed performance practice to playing techniques and means of expression of the Baroque orchestra and their application to modern instruments, he completed postgraduate studies in historical performance practice with R. Goebel at the Mozarteum University Salzburg.
Three CDs, live recordings for the radio stations MDR, ORF-Ö1, Radio Stephansdom as well for the televisions ORF, 3 SAT, ARTE, and TVR Cultural are a further documentation of his musical activities.