Federico Del Sordo
Organ
Federico Del Sordo was born in Rome in 1961. He completed his musical studies (diplomas in piano, organ and organ composition, composition, sacred music, choral conducting, and sacred music) alongside university studies (a specialist degree in Sociology, postgraduate training in religious movements, an advanced course in Peacekeeping and Security Studies, and a PhD in Musicology).
He maintains an active concert career as an organist and continuo player. He has performed for major institutions in Italy, including the Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia, the Autunno Musicale di Como, the Barattelli Foundation, the Ente Arena di Verona, the Accademia Chigiana di Siena, and the Concerti della Cassa di Risparmio in Florence, among others. Internationally, he has performed in cities such as Prague, Kraków, Augsburg, Maribor, Oxford, Madrid, Basel, Copenhagen, New York, Brussels, Lisbon, and many others across Europe and the Americas.
He is engaged in research in the field of social sciences applied to music and in the philology of Baroque musical repertories. He is the author of nine extensive monographs and numerous scholarly and critical articles. He has taught interpretation courses in Italy (including the Musica Rara Association in Naples, the Tomás Luis de Victoria School in Rome, interpretation courses in early music in Città della Pieve, and Estate a Norcia) and abroad, including at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, the Estonian Academy of Music and Theatre in Tallinn, the Episcopal Department of Liturgical Music in Morelia (Mexico), the Conservatory of Music in Celaya, the Conservatorio Superior de Música de Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, and the Musikschule in Langenau (Germany).
He has recorded numerous CDs for labels including Pentaphon, Camerata, Fonit Cetra, Melos Antiqua, Fons Musicae, and Brilliant Classics, with which he continues to collaborate regularly. He has also produced over 700 radio broadcasts for RAI and several programs for Vatican Radio.
He served for ten years as adjunct professor at several universities: Roma Tre University (Sociology of Religious Sects, 1999–2001) and Sapienza University of Rome (Semiotics of Music, Sociology of Music, 2001–2009). He is currently full professor at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia and associate professor at the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Rome.
