Pedro Persone
Of Italian origin, Dr. Pedro Persone was born in Tietê, SP, Brazil, and began his harpsichord study at the Conservatório Musical "Dr. Carlos de Campos", Tatuí, SP, with Maria José Carrasqueira. He studied privately with Roberto de Regina in Rio de Janeiro, and received his Bachelor degree in Harpsichord at the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP) in the class of Dr. Helena Jank.
In Europe, he attended courses with Felipe Nabuco-Silvestre (Brazil/Portugal), Christophe Rousset (France), Emilia Fadini and Rinaldo Alessandrini (Italy).
In 1977 Mr. Persone studied with Huguette Dreyfus at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Bobigny, France; in 1988 with Jacques Ogg, at the Academie voor Oude Muziek, Amsterdam. His most important study was under the orientation of Professor Mark Kroll in Boston.
With a scholarship from the Fundação Vitae, he attended the "Primer Curso de Música Barroca Ciudad de Segovia" in the fortepiano class of Patrick Cohen (France).
Persone reintroduced the fortepiano in Brazil during the Mozart year of 1991. He is the fortepianist of the "Klassisch!" duo (with the soprano Andrea Kaiser) and Duo Sieber (with clarinetist Luciano Pereira).
As teacher, he has worked at the Festival de Londrina, Oficina de Música de Curitiba, Festivais de Artes de Itu. From 1985 to 2000 he was teacher of harpsichord, chamber music, and thoroughbass at the Conservatório Dramático e Musical "Dr. Carlos de Campos", Tatui. At the same institution, he founded the Collegium Musicum, a student orchestra devoted to the music of the Baroque and Classical eras.
In 1996, with a scholarship from Fapesp (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) he achieved his Master of Musical Arts diploma at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with his research on unmeasured works for harpsichord.
As harpsichordist and fortepianist, Mr. Persone played recitals (solo, chamber music – continuo and obbligato early keyboards – and soloist) in Amsterdam, Boston, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Haarlem (NL), Los Angeles, Milano, New York, Paris. His discography has seven CDs – four issued in Brazil, two in Portugal and one in the U.S.A.
From 2001 to 2003 he taught group piano at Boston University under the coordination of Professor Linda Jiorle-Nagy.
Sponsored by Capes (Fundação Coordenação de Pessoal de Nível Superior), Persone holds a doctorate – Doctor of Musical Arts – in Historical Performance on the Harpsichord and the Fortepiano from Boston University in the class of Professor Mark Kroll. His dissertation was “The Earliest Piano Music: Lodovico Giustini's (1685-1743) Sonate da cimbalo di piano e forte detto volgarmente di martelletti, Firenze, 1732.” This study was published in 2008 under book format by the German publishing house VDM-Verlag of Saabrücken.
Granted by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP – Persone developed a post-doctoral research (2007-2010), at Instituto de Artes of Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita – UNESP, on European music played in Imperial Brazil under the title: “Piano and chamber music composed between 1790 - 1826 in the COLEÇÃO THEREZA CHRISTINA MARIA: an approach according to the performance practices related to the period.” This study is available as book under the title “O Piano era, então, ainda uma novidade”: A Coleção Thereza Christina e sua performance. Curitiba: Editora Prismas, 2014.
In 2010 Persone joined the Faculty of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (RS) as Associate Professor of Musicology. In 2016 Persone worked his second post-doctorate involving the harpsichord in Portuguese and Spanish Colonial Americas at Universidade de São Paulo – USP, NAP-CIPEM of the Music Department of the FFCLRP-USP of Ribeirão Preto under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rubens Russomanno Ricciardi.
Since January 2018 Persone is the Pedagogic Adviser at Conservatório de Tatui (http://www.conservatoriodetatui.org.br/assessoria/).
Phone: +55-15-99628-2411
Address: Conservatório de Tatuí
Rua São Bento, 415 - Centro -
18.270-820 - Tatuí - SP - Brazil
phone: +55-15- 3205-8444
In Europe, he attended courses with Felipe Nabuco-Silvestre (Brazil/Portugal), Christophe Rousset (France), Emilia Fadini and Rinaldo Alessandrini (Italy).
In 1977 Mr. Persone studied with Huguette Dreyfus at the Ecole Nationale de Musique de Bobigny, France; in 1988 with Jacques Ogg, at the Academie voor Oude Muziek, Amsterdam. His most important study was under the orientation of Professor Mark Kroll in Boston.
With a scholarship from the Fundação Vitae, he attended the "Primer Curso de Música Barroca Ciudad de Segovia" in the fortepiano class of Patrick Cohen (France).
Persone reintroduced the fortepiano in Brazil during the Mozart year of 1991. He is the fortepianist of the "Klassisch!" duo (with the soprano Andrea Kaiser) and Duo Sieber (with clarinetist Luciano Pereira).
As teacher, he has worked at the Festival de Londrina, Oficina de Música de Curitiba, Festivais de Artes de Itu. From 1985 to 2000 he was teacher of harpsichord, chamber music, and thoroughbass at the Conservatório Dramático e Musical "Dr. Carlos de Campos", Tatui. At the same institution, he founded the Collegium Musicum, a student orchestra devoted to the music of the Baroque and Classical eras.
In 1996, with a scholarship from Fapesp (Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo) he achieved his Master of Musical Arts diploma at the University of Campinas (UNICAMP), with his research on unmeasured works for harpsichord.
As harpsichordist and fortepianist, Mr. Persone played recitals (solo, chamber music – continuo and obbligato early keyboards – and soloist) in Amsterdam, Boston, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Haarlem (NL), Los Angeles, Milano, New York, Paris. His discography has seven CDs – four issued in Brazil, two in Portugal and one in the U.S.A.
From 2001 to 2003 he taught group piano at Boston University under the coordination of Professor Linda Jiorle-Nagy.
Sponsored by Capes (Fundação Coordenação de Pessoal de Nível Superior), Persone holds a doctorate – Doctor of Musical Arts – in Historical Performance on the Harpsichord and the Fortepiano from Boston University in the class of Professor Mark Kroll. His dissertation was “The Earliest Piano Music: Lodovico Giustini's (1685-1743) Sonate da cimbalo di piano e forte detto volgarmente di martelletti, Firenze, 1732.” This study was published in 2008 under book format by the German publishing house VDM-Verlag of Saabrücken.
Granted by Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo – FAPESP – Persone developed a post-doctoral research (2007-2010), at Instituto de Artes of Universidade Estadual Paulista “Júlio de Mesquita – UNESP, on European music played in Imperial Brazil under the title: “Piano and chamber music composed between 1790 - 1826 in the COLEÇÃO THEREZA CHRISTINA MARIA: an approach according to the performance practices related to the period.” This study is available as book under the title “O Piano era, então, ainda uma novidade”: A Coleção Thereza Christina e sua performance. Curitiba: Editora Prismas, 2014.
In 2010 Persone joined the Faculty of the Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (RS) as Associate Professor of Musicology. In 2016 Persone worked his second post-doctorate involving the harpsichord in Portuguese and Spanish Colonial Americas at Universidade de São Paulo – USP, NAP-CIPEM of the Music Department of the FFCLRP-USP of Ribeirão Preto under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Rubens Russomanno Ricciardi.
Since January 2018 Persone is the Pedagogic Adviser at Conservatório de Tatui (http://www.conservatoriodetatui.org.br/assessoria/).
Phone: +55-15-99628-2411
Address: Conservatório de Tatuí
Rua São Bento, 415 - Centro -
18.270-820 - Tatuí - SP - Brazil
phone: +55-15- 3205-8444
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Videos by Pedro Persone
Aula Palestra: Conhecendo o Fortepiano (Transmissão on-line)
Expositor: Prof. Dr. Pedro Persone
Mediador: Prof. Dr. Carlo Arruda
Conservatório na Rede
Aula 15/2022
Série: Destaques do Conservatório de Tatuí
Aula: O Fortepiano
Professor: Pedro Persone
O projeto Conservatório na Rede apresenta a videoaula “O Fortepiano”, da série “Destaques do Conservatório de Tatuí”. Nesta aula, o professor Pedro Persone, docente da Área de Performance Histórica e Gerente Pedagógico de Música do Conservatório de Tatuí, relata a invenção do instrumento musical fortepiano e seus desdobramentos, focando nas escolas alemã-vienense e inglesa.
Papers by Pedro Persone
Aula Palestra: Conhecendo o Fortepiano (Transmissão on-line)
Expositor: Prof. Dr. Pedro Persone
Mediador: Prof. Dr. Carlo Arruda
Conservatório na Rede
Aula 15/2022
Série: Destaques do Conservatório de Tatuí
Aula: O Fortepiano
Professor: Pedro Persone
O projeto Conservatório na Rede apresenta a videoaula “O Fortepiano”, da série “Destaques do Conservatório de Tatuí”. Nesta aula, o professor Pedro Persone, docente da Área de Performance Histórica e Gerente Pedagógico de Música do Conservatório de Tatuí, relata a invenção do instrumento musical fortepiano e seus desdobramentos, focando nas escolas alemã-vienense e inglesa.