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The Uruguayan harpsichordist, Leonardo Valiante, began his studies at the music school Virgilio Scarabelli. In 1989 he graduated as piano teacher at the Conservatory Falleri Balzo and after that he followed a postgraduate with Nelly Langone de Trocolli at Superior Institute of Uruguay. Later he began to study harpsichord with Eduardo Gilardoni and Carlos Levin at the Anglo Institute in Montevideo. During his studies he also followed harpsichord master-classes with José Gonzalez Uriol, Rosana Lanzelotte and Yves Rechsteiner. After obtaining harpsichord diploma A, he played with the Orchestra of S.O.D.R.E conducted by Roberto Montenegro. In 1996, he was admitted to the Royal Conservatory in The Hague and continued studying harpsichord with Jacques Ogg. Then he graduated on contemporary music harpsichord with Annelie de Man at the Sweelinck Conservatory in 2002.
In 2001 Leonardo Valiante accompanied the North Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Erik Klas in the Vredenburg Hall in Utrecht. Since 2000 he has accompanied as a pianist-organist the VocAnimo choir conducted by Loek Ruijters and since 2012 he has accompanied the Iris choir in Warmond by Marinus Links. Since November 2012 he plays organ during the service on Saturdays in Emmaus chapel. On July 26, 2007, he performed in the German chapel with a trio, including French and German repertoire with the traverso Margarita Gonzales and bassoonist Gabriel Pereira. On May 4, 2010, he accompanied as harpsichordist the Eijgenwijs choir conducted by Joke Geraets, with Pepijn Eigenraam, bass and Ruud Mourik, percussion. In 2010, he created the instrumental ensemble Concerto Valiante. On September 19, 2010, he performed parts of the opera Orlando by George Frideric Handel with a Baroque string ensemble and vocal soloists: mezzo-sopranos Stephanie Gericke, Alexandra d’Espinoza and counter-tenor Leandro Marziotte in the Blueberry Chapel in the Hague.
On August 11, 2011, Leonardo Valiante gave a concert in the Nelly Goitiñozaal of the S.O.D.R.E. in Montevideo, Uruguay, together with violinist Clara Kruk and cellist Rodrigo Riera. On December 3, 2011 he offered a concert in the family Church in the Hague with the soprano Maria Valdmaa and Baroque violinist Javier Lupiañez Ruiz. On April 4, 2012 he played a concert in the Cloister church in the Hague with the soprano Michal Bitan, Javier Lupiañez Ruiz and cellist Paulina Ptak. On September 21 and 23, 2012 he conducted and accompanied on harpsichord G.F. Handel's opera Orlando with soloists and a Baroque ensemble in the Church of Our Saviour and in the Blueberry Chapel in the Hague. On November 9, 2012 he also accompanied the Rijlandsorchestra on harpsichord The Creation of Haydn in Zoeterwoude. In 2013, he performed a concert in the Emmaus church with the Baroque ensemble and later he conducted G.F. Handel's opera Orlando in the Old church of Naaldwijk. In November of the same year and in January 2014 he performed highlights of G.F. Handel's opera Rodelinda with the soloists: soprano Charlotte Munnik, as Rodelinda, counter-tenors: Mattias Pavlous, as Bertarido, J-Sebastien Beauvais as Unulfo and mezzo-soprano Victoria Cassano as Eduige, in the Matthias- and Emmaus church. In April he performed a concert in the Houtrustchurch with the Baroque ensemble and traverso Roberto Bando. In 2015 he performed highlights of G.F. Handel's Ottone with soloists: soprano Mariana Pimenta as Teofane, mezzo Rut Codina Palacio as Matilda and counter-tenor Mattias Pavlous as Ottone and the Baroque ensemble in the Emmaus. He accompanied on harpsichord H. Purcell's opera Dido and Aeneas with the soloists Michelle Mallinger conducted by Coen Honig in the Waalse church, The Hague. |
