EMILIO MORENO [Spain]
violin, viola
Director of La Real Cámara and El Concierto Español

About Emilio Moreno

The violinist Emilio Moreno is one of Europe’s most distinguished performers of music from the baroque and classical periods and whose musical qualities are matched by the impact of his knowledge. These he has acquired through many years of practical experience around the world as a soloist, conductor and partner of the very best ensembles and musicians: Frans Brüggen, Gustav Leonhardt, La Petite Bande, the Ensemble 415, La Chapelle Royale, Stravaganza Köln, etc. He currently leads the viola section of Brüggen’s Orchestra of the 18th Century.

As an eminent music researcher and musicologist, Moreno is contributing in a definitive way to the rediscovery of forgotten music from the Spanish baroque and classical periods. The outcome of his research can be heard in the many concerts and recordings he regularly produces with his ensembles La Real Cámara and, more recently, with his new period instrument orchestra, El Concierto Español.

Emilio Moreno is one of the founders of the Spanish record label, Glossa, for which he not only produces his own projects, but also contributes with his expertise to recordings of artists such as Eric Hoeprich, Wilbert Hazelzet, Paolo Pandolfo or the Orchestra of the Renaissance.

El Concierto Español, the new orchestra directed by Emilio Moreno, has set itself an ambitious goal: recovering unknown and unjustly neglected repertoire from the Spanish baroque and pre-classical periods, and offering it to the public through both live performances and recordings of the highest quality. No focused attempt to do so had been undertaken by anyone before this moment, in a country still full of many forgotten musical treasures.