Walter Testolin – conductor

Singer and conductor, he dedicates a large part of his musical commitment to the knowledge and diffusion of the polyphonic vocal repertoire of the Renaissance, of which he is considered one of the most attentive and significant performers.
In 2001 he founded De labyrintho, which under his direction has established itself as one of the reference vocal groups in the performance of the repertoire of the 15th and 16th centuries.
Since 2011, he has directed the young vocal and instrumental ensemble RossoPorpora with whom he is developing a profound study path of the Italian madrigal repertoire.
He has sung with many of the main conductors of the European Renaissance and Baroque music scene and collaborates in concerts and recordings with the Belgian orchestra La Petite Bande and for over twenty years with the Swiss Italian Radio Choir.
Also active in the contemporary repertoire, he has sung and conducted works by some of the leading composers on the music scene.
He holds courses, conferences and masterclasses at prestigious Italian and foreign institutions. He is the author of a study which proposes the great Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez as the subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Portrait of a Musician” preserved in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan. He is the author of a study, which proposes the great Renaissance composer Josquin Desprez as the subject of Leonardo da Vinci’s “Portrait of a Musician” preserved in the Pinacoteca Ambrosiana in Milan.
He wrote the part dedicated to the Madrigal for the Treccani Italian Encyclopedia Institute within the great editorial project The Italian contribution to the history of Thought.