Daniele Ferrari studied piano with Alberto Mozzati and Alberto Colombo, organ with GiovanniWalter Zaramella, composition with Angelo Corradini and Bruno Bettinelli, and orchestral conducting with Franco Gallini. He has been organist of the Basilica of San Carlo al Corso in Milan since 1986, and for more than ten years was conductor of the Concentus Musicae Antiquae Choir, with which he also made recordings for RAI (Italian State Television and Radio). As a conductor he has performed vocal and instrumental repertoire from the Baroque period to the present day. In 1996 he conducted the symphony concert at the Festival of the Valle d'Itria (Martina Franca, Italy), and in 1999 composed Canti di Alice for voice and piano on poems by Alice Sturiale (from Il libro di Alice, published by Rizzoli), which have been performed at various cultural and literary events. In 2000 he collaborated as Assistant Conductor and Musical Production Director with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano G. Verdi, which he conducted in the concert hall of Milan's Conservatorio G. Verdi and in the Auditorium di Milano. In his pursuit of rare and unpublished musical repertory, Daniele Ferrari has transcribed, edited, performed and recorded many compositions, including sacred works by Emanuele Rincón d'Astorga, Francesco Pasquale Ricci, Giovanni Battista Sammartini, and Nino Rota's four-part Mass. With Jeremy Commons he completed the reconstruction and revision of Giovanni
