pedro memelsdorff
The greatest master of recorder:
He is in complete control of the instrument, he knows, always, exactly what he wants to hear / say and he knows how to say it.
A brilliant teacher, who knows how to find the true problem and then give you a library of solutions to be able to become a master of your instrument, and not a slave to your mishabs.
A great researcher, and I think that every aspiring recorder artist should at one point in his life, go to work with him.
I had the great honor to study with him in Milano and in the Bologna blocks between 1993-1995.
Here you may see him directing a performance of Mala Punica – liturgic music from the faenza Codex:
Pedro Memelsdorff conducting Mala Punica
Roberto Gini
Roberto Gini with whom I had studied with also in Civica Scuola di Musica, Milano, and then had to pleasure of workign with on a special project – about Salomone di Rossi the search for salomone rossi
Brilliant player.
Fantastic teacher.
Incredible musician.
We had performed the Telemann concerto for recorder and gamba with the JBO in 2007 as you can see here: 
and recorded some late baroque together.
Another great musician with whom I had the honor to play and I had learned a lot from is Rinaldo Alessandrini
Rinaldo Alessandrini
whomI have met in 1992 in Urbino, where he had coached me in a chamber group. I did not know of him until then, but it had taken one rehearsal to realize what a great musician I have encountered.
Later on I had the pleasure of playing with him in Concerts.
Here you can watch him direnting his own ensemble, Concerto Italiano, in a recent concert in Krakov:
and here you can hear him play the harpsichord in the ever so famous conceto in d minor:
And last but not least on this Italian gallery is Alberto Grazzi:
I had decided to take baroque bassoon when in Civica…and got to start the instrument with the best player around…I did not continue with the bassoon, but deepend into my recorder – but learned so much music from this amazing musician (here seen in the middle…the one that looks like his twin, is, actualy, his twin, Paolo).
Listen to him playing the F concerto by Vivaldi:
Paolo Grazzi on the left, Alberto Grazzi in the middle, Alfredo Bernardini on the right.
