Coro della Radio Svizzera Lugano

I Barocchisti

Since 1986 he has worked at the Swiss Radio as musician and conductor, and in 1993 he was appointed resident director of the Swiss Radio-Television Ensembles. In this quality he has co-operated with many leaders such as S.Baudo, F. Brüggen, A. Campori, C. Halffter, W.D.Hauschild, I. Karabtchevsky, T. Koopman, G. Leonhard, A. Lombard, P. Maag, A. Parrot, H. Rilling, N. Santi. He regularly works with first rate international instrumental Ensembles such as Sonatori de la Gioiosa Marca, Concerto Palatino, Accademia Strumentale Italiana, Ensemble Vanitas, Giardino Armonico, Theatrum Instrumentorum, Ensemble Italiano di Ottoni. He is the musical director of the Ensemble Vanitas and of I Barocchisti, with whom he has produced on CD and Video for UER Bach's Johannespassion and Monteverdi's Vespro della Beata Vergine.

Diego Fasolis combines his versatility and virtuosity with a keen sense of style which has earned applause and praise from both audience and critics that are following him in important international live performances, in radio and television broadcasting and recording (about 40 CD for EMI, SSR, BBC, Amadeus, Divox, Naxos, Arts, SRI, DO, CPO), all awarded by the most aimed acknowledgements of the specialized press and dedicated to several composers: Bach, Balsamino, Banchieri, Beethoven, Boccherini, Brahms, Buxtehude, Carisimi, Dalla Piccola, Durante, Eisler, Gabrieli, Galuppi, Giger, Händel, Lasso, Liszt, Lotti, Marcello, Mendelssohn, Monteverdi, Mozart, Nietzsche, Palestrina, Petrucci, Piccinni, Purcell, Rossini, Rota, Schubert, Senfl, Soliva, Vivaldi, Vogel.

Due to his knowledges in vocal and instrumental field he is often invited as a director from musical societies such as Arena di Verona, Teatro alla Scala in Milan, Teatro dell'Opera in Rome, and as teacher and member of international juries.

With the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana he recorded works of Händel, Salieri, Mozart, Cherubini, Mendelssohn and Gossec with a particular attention to the performance praxis of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries applied to the "modern" Orchestras.

In October 1999 he has conducted in Paris, in favour of the well-known Salle Gaveaud, a concert broadcasted live on Radio Classic with works of Mozart, Haydn and St.Georges . In November he was in the Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome for Mozart's Requiem with Orchestra and Choir of the Opera for the Jubilee celebrations. In January 2000 he was in Milan to perform Bach's Suites at La Scala.

For the celebrations on Bach's 250th Anniversary of death he will represent Switzerland leading the Swiss Radio Choir in the European Project with Motets and Holy Cantatas and also with a video recording of Bach's version of the Stabat Mater of Pergolesi. In July he will begin a series of performances of Händel's Messiah, opening the Flandres Festival in Bruges.