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Ricardo Milanese(born 1952): Brazilian and Italian harpsichord, fortepiano and piano player, born in São Paulo, Brazil of Brazilian and Italian descent. Studied music in São Paulo, Brazil with Clementina Wurmbauer (1900 - 1992) an Austrian pianist and piano teacher who was herself a pupil of Professor Dr. Franz Schmidt and Richard Stöhr in Vienna Conservatory of Music. Ricardo Milanese also studied music at the "Conservatorio Dramático e Musical de São Paulo" from 1971 to 1974, an Institution that existed from 1906 to around 2000 in São Paulo, Brazil. In this music school he had classes with Irene Mauricia de Sá (piano), João Caldeira Filho (music history), Fausta Sermarini (harmony, counterpoint and aesthetics), Rossini Tavares de Lima (Brazilian folklore) and Dr. Alonso Aníbal da Fonseca (piano master classes)and others. He took part in the "Festival de Inverno de Campos do Jordão" (Winter Classical Music Festival) in 1977, 1978 and 1982 in the piano, choir, chamber choir and singing courses. It was in this 1978 Festival that he met the Brazilian harpsichord maker and harpsichord player Roberto de Regina from Rio de Janeiro and became fascinated by the harpsichord, its repertoire, technique and style. Later Ricardo Milanese was to pursue his early music studies with Jacques Ogg (Dutch harpsichord and fortepiano player and teacher)and Noëlle Spieth (French harpsichord player and teacher) in Santa Úrsula University in Rio de Janeiro in July 1988. In Brazil, Ricardo Milanese was also a pupil at the "IIIa Bienal de Musica da USP" (3rd Biennial of Classical Music -a course with a contemporary bias - in 1977 at the choir, chamber choir and piano courses.

Ricardo Milanese went to live in Paris in 1989 where he earned a living as a pianist at many classical ballet schools (Janine Stanlowa, Etiennette Morgan, Centre du Marais, La Menagerie de Verre, and also the ècole de Ballet de l'Opéra de Paris). Always interested in early music and the harpsichord, he rented an instrument from his friend, the Brazilian harpsichord and fortepiano player Rosana Lanzelotte, from Rio de Janeiro, who was also living in Paris at the time, and had harpsichord lessons with Elizabeth Joyé and Pierre Hantaï.In Paris he did some research at the "Bibliothèque Nationale" (Music Sector) where he collected material about the Austrian composer and pianist Sigismund Neukomm (1778 - 1858) who had been in Brazil in the second decade of the XIXth century at the court of Prince and later Emperor Pedro I (Pedro IV of Portugal). In this library he obtained microfilms of the "20 Modinhas Portuguesas" by the Brazilian composer of "modinhas" Joaquim da Câmara (collected and trascribed to voice and piano by Neukomm) which he sent to his friend, the soprano Luiza Sawaya, and thus made it possible for her to record these "modinhas" on a CD.

In 1992 Ricardo Milanese moved to London where he also played the piano at several ballet schools, including the Royal Ballet School. In London he had harpsichord lessons with Janet Chapman at the City Lit. In London he also started doing research in British music libraries about early harpsichord and fortepiano concertos that had never been published. He intends to record such works in the near future.

Ricardo lived in London from September 1992 until December 8, 1995 where he continued his stidies and research mainly on Early Music but also on music of the Pre Classical, Classical and Romantic periods, forgotten masterpíeces which remain on the shelves. With the help of his friend Karl-Heinz Lassen from Flensburg he had access to the Berlin libraries of classical music where Karl Heinz sent him copies of manuscripts of ealy harpsichord piano concertos which Ricardo intends to recor. His friend from Paris George Pagliarini did the same with other concerts whose first editions are in the Bibliothèque Nationale de Paris and his friend Antonio Feci from Bologna completed Ricardo's quest of interesting works mainly for the harpsichord or fortepiano and strings which have rarely or naver been published or recorded.

His friend the great pianist and editor of Brazilian classical music, the Brazilian and American Max Barros from New York got him a second hand spinet which Ricardo took with him to Brazil, a country where there are few early keyboard instruments of good quality (all of them copies and no original instruments).

Since Dec 9 1995 Brazil has lived in São Paulo, Brazil, his home city, where he resumed his teaching and research activities and where he intends to make the long awaited recordings of those masterpieces which have been forgotten for too long !

His email is: ricardomilanese2@hotmail.com Any contact with him can be made at this email address !

Ricardo is welcome to receive any support concerning the above mentioned plans of recording those early harpsichord or fortepiano conertos, be that halp in the form of use of instruments (harpsichords or fortepianos) or the use of a recording studio or equipment, financial sponsorship for the payment of fees an early music string quartet that is necessary for those recordings !