Chiara Cattani
Born in 1985, she is a harpsichordist, pianist and fortepianist. She teaches Harpsichord and Historical Keyboards at the Conservatorio 'E.R.Duni' in Matera and is Accompanist Harpsichordist of the Baroque Singing class at the Conservatorio 'G.B. Martini' in Bologna.

She obtained her diploma in piano at the Conservatorio 'B.Maderna' in Cesena under the guidance of Maestro Denis Zardi and that in harpsichord at the Conservatorio 'G.B. Martini' in Bologna, under the guidance of Maestro Silvia Rambaldi, both with top marks and honours. She then obtained a Second Level Degree in Harpsichord with 110, cum laude and honourable mention. She also graduated from the International Piano Academy in Imola in chamber music. Since 2006, she has passionately dedicated herself to the study of ancient keyboards. She has attended seminars and master classes held by M° L.F. Tagliavini, E.Fadini, M. Toni and D. Dolci. He studied fortepiano with Maestro Stefano Fiuzzi at the International Piano Academy in Imola.

She carries out an intense concert activity that has already seen her perform more than 400 concerts in major Italian cities as soloist, harpsichord continuist in chamber ensembles and soloist with orchestra. A prize-winner in several national and international competitions, her recordings include the complete collection of Giuseppe Sarti's sonatas for historical keyboards and in duo with flute and violin for the record company 'Tactus' in six CDs, together with violinist Roberto Noferini and flutist Silvia Moroni, and her participation in the recording of the CD enclosed with the magazine 'Amadeus' in December 2011, dedicated to the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy. She published the book 'Giuseppe Sarti: cantabilità operistica nelle sonate per cembalo e violino' for the Collana Editoriale dell'Associazione Jervolino di Caserta.

She graduated in "History of the Ancient World" from the Faculty of Studies in Bologna with 110/110 cum laude, with a thesis in Papyrology on the profession of the musician in Egypt in the Greco-Roman era.

Ensemble Locatelli
Founded in 2014 by Thomas Chigioni, Ensemble Locatelli brings together young talents, united by many years of shared musical experience, with the aim of tackling baroque and classical repertoire, instrumental and vocal, paying particular attention to historical performance practice, with original instruments.

Motivated by a great passion for research and historical performance practice, the group works constantly to make pages of music from past centuries accessible to today's audiences.

Ensemble Locatelli goes against the trend of the cultural crisis in Italy: at a time when orchestras are closing down and it is increasingly difficult to carry on activities, Ensemble Locatelli has managed to consistently offer high quality products over the years in a completely autonomous manner, increasing the level of cultural proposals and the number of performances year after year. In a context in which the so-called 'brain drain' from Italy is becoming increasingly frequent, Ensemble Locatelli has managed to become a pole of attraction in which some of the best Baroque musicians of the new generation collaborate.

Trained at the Conservatories of Bergamo, Milan, Como, Parma, Genoa, Lugano, Vienna, and the Schola Cantorum in Basel, the members of the ensemble have over the years deepened their study of the performance practice of Baroque music with important masters.

The name of the ensemble is a tribute to the great Bergamasque composer and virtuoso of the Baroque era Pietro Antonio Locatelli, whose 250th death anniversary falls in 2014.

In 2015 it embarked on a tour in France, following which, given its success, it was invited to participate in a new series of concerts in summer 2016,2017,2018,2019.

In 2015, he collaborated with Bergamo's art and music high schools in a staged production of a portion of Purcell's "Fairy Queen"; in the same year, he performed "Membra Jesu Nostri", a masterpiece by Buxtehude, with the Coro Antiche Armonie (directed by Giovanni Duci).

In 2016, Ensemble Locatelli worked on the production of its first record: in October of the same year, the record dedicated to the "6 trio sonatas op.V" by P.A. was released. Locatelli, for the label 'Classica dal Vivo'.

In 2017, the group toured France with a cycle of 3 concerts entitled 'Les Nations', in which each performance explored the repertoire relating to one of the three princely nations of Baroque music: Italy, Germany, France.

In the autumn of the same year, the ensemble was invited to the prestigious 'Settimane Barocche di Brescia' festival, where, with a programme dedicated to Italian concerti grossi, it received wide acclaim.

In 2018, the ensemble brings Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas to the stage in a full and scenic version. In the spring, the programme 'Viaggio intorno al concerto grosso italiano' toured Switzerland and Germany, enjoying wide acclaim. In the summer of the same year, the programme 'Metamorphosis', dedicated to transcriptions for piccolo cello, violin, and basso continuo, was taken on tour in France and repeated in Italy.

The Ensemble Locatelli project, a real "musical start-up", is continuously growing, and given the increase in the group's activities, in 2019 "L'associazione Pietro Antonio Locatelli" was founded, thanks to which the first concert season of Ensemble Locatelli in the city of Bergamo was realised, as well as a summer tour with concerts in France and Germany.

To seal Ensemble Locatelli's fifth anniversary, a completely Vivaldian disc has been released in a double release for autumn 2019/spring 2020 for Amadeus / Panclassic , featuring the extraordinary participation of Luca Oberti as conductor and the contralto Alessandra Visentin.

In 2019 Ensemble Locatelli begins a collaboration with the Cappella Musicale della Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore in Bergamo, conducted by Maestro Cristian Gentilini. ...