A harpsichordist, organist and fortepianist, he is founder and director of Concerto Italiano. On the occasion of the Monteverdi concert at the 2005 Edinburgh Festival, the Times called him "the man who has done so much to make Italian Baroque music sound Italian again." He conducts an intense solo activity, a guest of festivals all over the world, in the USA, Canada, Japan as well as Europe. In recent years he has devoted himself to conducting, favoring the late 18th and early 19th century repertoire, consolidating some ongoing collaborations with the Theatre of the 'Opera in Oslo, the Filarmonica Toscanini, the orchestra of the Capitole in Toulouse, and conducting some of the best orchestras with period instruments in Europe and the USA. Some Concerto Italiano recordings have been referred to as reference versions by international critics (_The Four Seasons _by to. Vivaldi and the Brandenburg Concertos by J. S. Bach). Between the years 2009 and 2015 he performed the Monteverdi trilogy at the Teatro alla Scala with Robert Wilson. He edited for Barenreiter the scores of Claudio Monteverdi'sOrfeo and Ritorno d'Ulisse in patria. In 2013 he conducted Caccini's Euridice to Innsbruck and _Orfeo ed Euridice _by Gluck to Oslo. In 2014, _L'incoronazione di Poppea _at the Opéra national de Paris. In 2015, he conducted _The Coronation of Poppea _at La Scala in Milan, Don Giovanni atopera in Bergen, Giulio Cesare, atopera in Toulon, Mozart's Finta semplice with the Munich Radio Orchestra, Jommelli's _TheUninhabited Island _at Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Handel's _Orlando _at Welsh National Opera. His discography--for the Opus 111, Arcana, Astrèe, and Harmonia Mundi France houses--which includes not only works by Italian composers but also those of the German school, has earned him a remarkable harvest of distinctions and awards from from record critics (including a Grand Prix du Disque and a German Record Critics' Prize). In 2003 he was named Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Minister of Culture. He is an Academician of the Roman Philharmonic. He is also author of a monograph on Monteverdi published in France from Acte Sud and editorial manager for Baerenreiter of the critical edition of Monteverdi's works.

Born in 1984, it has emerged in recent years among the Italian groups that have revolutionized the performance criteria of early music, to starting from the madrigal repertoire-and Monteverdian in particular-to to the orchestral and operatic repertoire for the eighteenth-century repertoire. Concerto Italiano's recordings are now considered reference versions from critics and audiences, to evidence of renewed interest in a repertoire now revisited through Mediterranean sensibilities. The ensemble is regularly hosted by the most prestigious festivals and theaters around the world. Concerto Italiano has just completed the Monteverdi trilogy at La Scala and is back from from a triumphant tour of Australia and New Zealand where it performed Monteverdi's Vespers. Among next projects are a European tour with Scarlatti's "Cain," a European tour with the RIAS Kammerchor with a program of late 17th-century Roman polyphony, and the numerous Monteverdi anniversary projects in 2017, including, in addition to the many European concerts, a Chinese tour withOrpheus and a Japanese tour with the Vespers and a Carnegie Hall concert with theCoronation of Poppea. Concerto Italiano records exclusively for Opus 111. The distinctions and rewards of record critics, which have reached his discography in recent years are enormous: among others, four Gramophone Awards - 1994, 1998, 2002 and 2004 and the only Italian group with three nominated recordings in 1998 and the best disc in the "instrumental baroque" category in 2004 - two Grand Prix du Disque, three German Record Critics' Awards (including the last one in 2008 for the recording of Monteverdi'sOrfeo ), Cini Prize, five awards at Midem to Cannes in addition to Disque de l'Annèe 1998 and 2005, Disc of the Year for Amadeus 1998). English music critics have decried the recordings of the Four Seasons by to. Vivaldi and J. S. Bach's Brandenburg Concertos the best currently on the market. Concerto Italiano also received the 2002 Abbiati Prize for activity.