Andrea De Carlo

Considered today’s leading performance expert of the music of Alessandro Stradella, Andrea De Carlo was born in Rome where he began his musical career as a jazz bass player. In tandem with his studies on the double bass, he graduated from the University “La Sapienza” in Rome with a degree in physics . Following his studies at the university, he performed as principal double bassist with the Orchestra Teatro Massimo di Palermo, the Orchestra Regionale Toscana, and the Orchestra Regionale del Lazio. His introduction to the viola da gamba, was serendipitous and became all encompassing to the extent that he abandoned the bass to study viol with Paolo Pandolfo, virtuoso performer and professor of viola da gamba at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. Andrea has performed in Italy and interna