About

Ilaria Macedonio, Harpsichord

”Macedonio’s agogic touch, faintly bronzed in inégal, is excellent, and her fingerwork is spoken with a finely articulated grammar.” (Gramophone, March 2021)

Ilaria Macedonio was born in Assisi into a family almost entirely composed of professional musicians. Beginning her piano studies at the age of seven years old, Ilaria has been a prizewinner at numerous competitions since the age of eight. In 2006 Ilaria gave her debut as a soloist with orchestra, and later went on to study at the G. Briccialdi Music Conservatory in Terni where she graduated with first class honours. In 2013 Ilaria won the Erasmus selection for a study exchange to Copenhagen (DK). In 2014 she enrolled at the Royal Danish Academy of Music in Copenhagen to study for a Master’s degree in Early Music under the guidance of Ketil Haugsand.
Whilst studying at the Royal Danish Academy of Music, Ilaria performed as a continuo harpsichord player for chamber groups and ensembles, and as a soloist performing the Goldberg Variations at Frederiksberg Slotskirke and Bach’s Concerto for 2 Harpsichords BWV 1060 in Copenhagen as well as Bach’s Concerto for Harpsichord BWV 1055 in Holbæk, Denmark. Ilaria has attended masterclasses, workshops and seminars with Andrea Marcon, Andrew Lawrence-King, Peter Spissky, Imbi Tarum, Emma Kirkby, Enrico Gatti, Ton Koopman, Lars Ulrik Mortensen, Ketil Are Haugsand, Claudio Astronio and Hille Perl. In 2017/18 Ilaria studied at the Royal College of Music on the Artist Diploma Course with Jane Chapman and Terence Charlston. In London she performed at the Greenwich Early Music Festival 2017, at the Southbank Centre and at Mottisfont Abbey’s National Trust Museum in May 2018.

In 2021 the Dutch label Channel Classics Records released Ilaria’s debut album (J.S. Bach – Sonatas for viola da gamba and harpsichord BWV 1027-1029), recorded in Copenhagen in collaboration with the Danish violist Marie Stockmarr Becker. With the duo Stockmarr-Macedonio, Ilaria made her debut in Sweden (2021), the Netherlands (2022) and in Finland for the Sastamala Gregoriana Festival 2023.

In 2024 Ilaria debuted at the Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik, directed by Eva-Maria Sens (artistic director) and Ottavio Dantone (musical director), as a musical assistant and harpsichordist for the opera production of G.F. Haendel’s “Arianna in Creta”.