ABOUT
Conductor, harpsichordist, fortepianist, teacher, researcher. An ever-evolving, multifaceted artist.
Born in Milan,
based in Basel,
teaching in Stuttgart.
I shape sound and the vision of music with plasticity, alchemizing analytical precision and improvisational freedom.
Bio
Arianna Radaelli grew up surrounded by music and began playing fortepiano and harpsichord at the age of four. She graduated in piano under the guidance of Silvia Rumi and Paolo Bordoni at the Conservatorio of Milano (2015). After high school diploma (classical studies), earned a Master in historical keyboards with highest honors at the Conservatorio di Como, and completed two Master of Arts degrees — in Performance and in Pedagogy, both with highest distinction — at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, studying with Andrea Marcon and Francesco Corti (2019, 2021). In 2021 she was the winner of the 19th International Harpsichord Competition “Paola Bernardi” in Bologna. In 2023 she obtained a Master in Project Management of Artistic and Cultural Events at the 24ORE Business School. She subsequently extended her artistic practice to orchestral conducting, training at the Italian Conducting Academy in Milano.
In 2026 she was selected as Young Conductor in Residence at the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence, where she conducted the final concert of the Résidence Voix with Cappella Mediterranea, sharing the podium with Leonardo García-Alarcón.
Since 2023 she has been teaching Harpsichord, Basso continuo, Maestra/o al Cembalo and Historical performance practice at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Stuttgart where she leads the Early Music Department. Since 2023, she has been teaching basso continuo at the Early Music Courses in Urbino (FIMA) and since 2026 she has also been teaching Baroque orchestra there. From 2021 to 2023 she taught Generalbass and was Senior Lecturer für Korrepetition at Universität Mozarteum Salzburg.
Arianna Radaelli has an active international career as a soloist and as a continuo player alongside leading period ensembles, including Il Pomo d’Oro, La Cetra Barockorchester, Ensemble Zefiro, Balthasar-Neumann Orchestra, Café Zimmermann, Gaechinger Cantorey Stuttgart. She was a musical assistant in the staging of several baroque operas at the “Internationale Händel-Festspiele Göttingen” and “Innsbrucker Festwochen der Alten Musik”: G.F. Händel’s Atalanta, dir. Andrea Buccarella (2026), C. Graupner’s Dido, dir. Andrea Marcon (2024), C. Pallavicino’s L’Amazzone corsara, dir. Luca Quintavalle (2022), G.F. Händel’s Ottone, dir. Fabrizio Ventura (2019).
Her debut solo album, Wonder in Venice, featuring harpsichord sonatas and concertos by Baldassare Galuppi and released by Arcana in 2025, was awarded several prizes, including the Diapason d’Or. As director of the ensemble La Filarete, she leads a group devoted to baroque and classical repertoire on period instruments. She founded the ensemble Alter Ego with the traverso player Eleonora Bišćević. They recorded Corelli’s Sonatas op. 5 nos. 1-6 in their historical arrangement for baroque flute and continuo. In 2023 they were artists in residence at Schloss Weissenbrunn, where the film ‘An Italian Gallery‘ was recorded.
She is also committed to musical outreach, collaborating with the “Coro e Orchestra Città di Cernusco sul Naviglio”, with whom she conducted Handel’s Messiah in 2024 and Te Deum by Mozart and Te Deum by Charpentier in 2025. She writes for Clef Magazine.