Stefano Lorenzetti studied organ and harpsichord with Kenneth Gilbert and earned his Ph. D. in History and Civilization at the European University Institute of Florence. His dual vocation as a musician and musicologist led him to explore forgotten practices, experienced in several recordings devoted to Italian Renaissance composers which have found favour with the international critics. His scholarship includes numerous journal articles on the history of ideas, on the Italian liturgical music and on the relationship of music and the art of memory. The monograph Musica e identità nobiliare nell’Italia del Rinascimento. Educazione, mentalità, immaginario published by Olschki in 2003, has enshrined him as one of the most significant and innovative scholars of Renaissance music. He has given concerts and conferences throughout Europe and the United States, and in particular at the Academia Chigiana in Siena, at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales in Paris, at the Centre d’Etudes de la Supérieures Renaissances in Tours, at University of California, Davis (Valente lectures), at Villa I Tatti (Harvard University) and at Stanford University (Ron Alexander Lectures). The Early Music Review named his latest recording of music for organ by Giovanni Gabrieli : “a masterclass in timing, he judges spread chords notated with very great subtlety .” Currently, he is professor of the History of music at Conservatory of music of Vicenza, and teaches harpsichord at the International master classes of Chiusi della Verna. Stefano Lorenzetti is former fellow of The Italian Academy for Advanced Studies in America at Columbia University in the City of New York.