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Evangelina Mascardi
Evangelina Mascardi
Birth name	Maria Evangelina Mascardi
Born	April 11, 1977 (age 47); Buenos Aires, Argentina
Origin	Argentina
Genres	Classical
Occupation(s)	Musician, teacher
Instruments	lute; guitar; theorbo; vihuela;
Labels	Arcana (a label of Outhere Music)
Website	http://www.evangelinamascardi.com

Maria Evangelina Mascardi is an Argentinian lutenist, guitarist, and theorbist, ^[2]^[3]^[4]^[5]^[6] resident of Orte in Italy, and a professor of lute at the Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi in Alessandria, Italy.^[7]

Life

Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in 1977,^[8]^[6] into an Italian family originating in Liguria she graduated in classical guitar and started her concert career there. She studied music at the National Music Academy Juan Pedro Esnaola with Silvia Fernandez and Gabriel Schebor, where she graduated as a state-certified music teacher.^[9] She moved to Europe in 1997 and decided to study lute at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis-Swiss Music Academy in Basel, Switzerland.^[2]^[10]^[6] She graduated as a soloist in lutenist Hopkinson Smith's class in 2001,^[11]^[6] obtaining her “Solisten Diplom” in 2001.^[6] She then acquired another academic degree while working as a soloist with Tiziano Bagnati at Benedetto Marcello Conservatory.^[9]

She has accompanied soloists such as Jordi Savall, Andrea Marcon, Giovanni Antonini and Simon Rattle as a Continuo player, participating in 30 CD productions. She has now devoted herself solely to lute solo performances,^[10] sometimes playing in ensembles, such as the Ensemble Zefiro under Alfredo Bernardini or the Monteverdi Choir under John Eliot Gardiner.

She is known for her recordings of the complete lute works of Johann Sebastian Bach, and Sylvius Leopold Weiss.^[12]^[13] ^[14]^[15]

Mascardi began teaching Hauptfach Laute in 2010 at the Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi in Alessandria, Italy.^[6] She is also artistic director in the Course on Early Music Ottaviano Alberti in Orte.^[9]

Discography (solo lute)

Mascardi has recorded five solo albums, including two of works by Bach and Weiss (ORF-Alte Musik, Austria 2003 and 2009), and one of theorbo solos by the Modena-born Bellerofonte Castaldi (Arcana 2011) and one of works by the Belgian lutenist and composer Laurent de Saint-Luc (Musique en Wallonie 2018).^[2] In 2022 she released a new album, J. S. Bach: Complete Lute Works (released on March 18, 2022, Label: Arcana, available as a CD, but also as a digital download.^[3] She has also recorded compositions for the vihuela.^[16]

References

^ "Album - Bach: Complete Lute Works, by Evangelina Mascardi". Outhere Music. 18 March 2022. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ""La belle homicide". Evangelina Mascardi, laúd barroco". Fundación Caja Cantabria (in Spanish). 22 January 2022. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b Torrico, Eduardo (29 April 2022). "Discos Excepcionales de mayo 2022. "BACH: Obra completa para laúd". Evangelina Mascardi, laúd barroco". Scherzo (in Spanish). Año XXXVII (Nº 384, Mayo 2022). Retrieved 29 May 2022.
^ "The days of Tiepolo: concert by the lutenist Evangelina Mascardi preceded by a guided tour of the Church of the Beata Vergine della Purità" (in Italian). CSS Teatro stabile di innovazione del Friuli Venezia Giulia. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ "Evangelina Mascardi". outhere music. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f "I Mercoledì del Conservatorio: al via la nuova stagione di concerti". Corriere di Alessandria (Corriere AL) (in Italian). 17 November 2019. Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ "The Conservatory: Departments - Bow and String Instruments". Conservatorio Antonio Vivaldi (Antonio Vivaldi Conservatory) (in Italian). Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ Zocca, Chiara (28 November 2021). "Mascardi e quel liuto che sa regalare magia". L'Arena (in Italian).
^ ^a ^b ^c "Evangelina Mascardi. Gastdozentur. Biography from Hochschule für Musik und Theater München". The University of Music and Performing Arts in Munich (in German).
^ ^a ^b Baumgärtner, Rainer (7 May 2022). "Album of the Week. Evangelina Mascardi: Bach - Complete Lute Works". Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg (rbb): rbbKultur (in German). Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ Fischerman, Diego (7 May 2022). "Flora Purim a los 80, el mejor Bach para laúd y la prehistoria de Betty Boop" [Flora Purim at 80, the best Bach for lute and the prehistory of Betty Boop] (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ Chahine, Loïc (12 May 2022). "L'événement: La dame au luth, L'ŒUVRE POUR LUTH". Diapason Magazine (in French). Retrieved 29 May 2022.
^ Smaczny, Jan (1 June 2022). "J S Bach, Complete Lute Works. Evangelina Mascardi (lute)". Retrieved 30 May 2022.
^ Evangelinas Lautenbüchlein. January 2016
^ Oron, Aryeh (16 May 2022). "Evangelina Mascardi (Guitar, Lute)". Bach Cantatas Website. Retrieved 29 May 2022.
^ McCutcheon, James (September 2021). "Milano Spagnola. Maurizio Croci, hpsi, org; Evangelina Mascardi, vihuela—Arcana 481—61 minutes". American Record Guide. Vol. 84, no. 5. pp. 166–167.