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The Argentinean harpsichordist and organist, Norberto Broggini, was born in Buenos Aires, where he graduated from the Manuel de Falla Conservatory in Buenos Aires having specialized in piano and musical culture (1980-1986). He went on to study harpsichord, organ and clavichord at the Geneva Early Music Centre (1988-1991). In 1992 he performed as a soloist with the
European Union Baroque Orchestra, conducted by
Ton Koopman.
As a harpsichordist with the Ensemble Elyma (since 1991), which is conducted by Gabriel Garrido, Norberto Broggini has performed at numerous festivals in Europe, the USA, Africa and Latin America. As an enthusiast for New World organ music, he has played numerous historical Latin American instruments, salvaging and recording forgotten 16th- to 19th-century repertoires. This effort included the performance of the complete keyboard works by Domenico Zipoli (1688-1726) for Radio Suisse-Romande and the world premier recording of the Chiquitos Organ Book. In addition, he edited unpublished keyboard pieces by
Girolamo Frescobaldi taken from a manuscript at the Bodmerian Library in Cologny.
As a resident organist at the Eaux-Vives Church in Geneva, Norberto Broggini founded the
Ensemble AquaViva in 2002 and gave the dedication concert playing the new Grenzing organ. He has lectured in numerous musicology symposiums, and taught master-classes in Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Colombia, France, Spain and Switzerland. In 2005, he started an initiative to recover the music of the 19th-century Argentine composer Juan Pedro Esnaola (1808-1878) driving the restoration of the composer’s square piano kept at the National Historical Museum in Buenos Aires. In 2008 the Projecto Esnaola was recognized as being “of parliamentary interest” by the Argentine Chamber of Deputies.
Norberto Broggini also has performed the modern world première of several classical and romantic works by Antoine Léonce Kuhn (Alsace, 1753-Switzerland, 1823) Sigismond Neukomm (Austria, 1778-France, 1858) Pedro Ximénez Abrill Tirado (Peru, 1780-Bolivia, 1856) and Claudio Rebagliati (Italy, 1843-Peru, 1909). His recordings are available on the labels K.617, Ambronay, Cantus, Enchiaridis, NB, Verso and Tradition. His personal collection includes original fortepianos by Longman & Broderip (London, c1795) Johann Schantz (Wien, c1802) Dieudonné & Schiedmayer (Stuttgart, c1825) Camille Pleyel (Paris, 1841) and Erard (Paris, 1863). He currently lives in Geneva, Switzerland. He has served as organist at Paroisse protestante des Eaux-Vives in (since March 1991); and titular organiste at Eglise protestante de Genève (since December 2015). |
