early music group
via Anconetta 58 - 35034 Lozzo Atestino (PD), Italia
Tel. +39 0429 697105 - fax +39 0429 697108
The CONSORT VENETO is an italian group, playing on renaissance instruments. We
are interested to shine new light on both instrumnetal and vocal music, composed in the
centuries from the Middle Age to the early Baroque.
The Consort Veneto is particulary devoted to study and perform the music of Venetian area,
i.e., north-eastern Italy.
The Consort Veneto performed more than 400 concerts in Italy and abroad, namely in Poland,
India, Rumania, Greece, Belgium, Egypt, Israel, Sweden, Germany, Austria, Croatia, Mexico,
Portugal, recording for italian, greek, israeli, and egyptian TV and radio broadcasting
corporation.
GIOVANNI TOFFANO studied ancient instruments with Pietro Verardo at the
Conservatory of Music in Venice, Italy. He studied with Sergio Balestracci graduating in
recorder at the Conservatory of Music in Padova, Italy.
He also studied with the finest european musicians: Frans Brüggen, René Clemencic,
Marijeke Miessen, Walter van Hauwe, Pedro Memelsdorff (recorder); Wilhelm Bremer (wind
instruments of Renaissance); Francesco Luisi (Renaissance notation). He presently teaches
recorder at the Conservatory of Music in Trento, Italy.
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