Chairperson, Department of Music Performance

Guitar, Lute and Music History

Maestro Jacopo Gianninoto is a guitarist and lutenist from Italy.

He started playing Guitar when he was 5 years old, since then he never stopped and he completed his studies at the Conservatory "A. Pedrollo" in Vicenza, one of the best school for plucked string instruments in Europe, under the guidance of Maestro Paolo Muggia. He also participated in several master classes with world famous musicians including the great Narciso Yepes, Ruggero Chiesa and Mario Gangi, from which he has developed a personal understanding of classical guitar, specializing in early music and mastering the 10 string guitar.

Following his passion for early repertoire and his composition and harmony instructor Maestro Dino Zambello’s suggestion, in 1998 he started his research on original ancient plucked strings instruments in lute, theorbo and baroque guitar, under the guidance of Maestro Terrell Stone, who had a great influence on his musical ideas, and studying also with Tiziano Bagnati and Francesca Torelli. He specialized in the execution of music of the 16th century, with essential and minimalist interpretations, under the point of view of the execution and in the choice of the music, he developed his personal way of understanding early music: "pure" and philologically correct executions, as opposed to "dead" executions good only for museums, and he is recognized as one of the most talented lutenist of his generation.

His research and authorship activity consist on several music manuscripts from Medieval, Renaissance and Baroque periods, and collaboration with publisher "Armelin Musica" from Padova (Padua, Italy) and he is the director, together with Maestro Muggia of  “Recordare”, a series of books of transcriptions in modern notation of previously unpublished music for lute, baroque guitar and theorbo, adapted for classical guitar from the original tablatures, for the rediscovery of the Italian ancient repertoire. His publishing work include a revision for guitar of the A. Vivaldi’s "Concerto per due Violini Leuto e Basso RV93", a transcription for guitar of the J.S. Bach’s sonatas originally written for solo violin, works on Vincenzo Galilei (father of the scientist Galileo), J.H. Kapsperger, F. Corbetta, I. Matelart, A. Piccinini, F. Spinacino, V. Capirola and his books are widely known in the guitar world.

During his career he published 7 solo recordings, 11 books, and he gave several recitals, concerts and master classes in many countries around the world including Italy, France, Hungary, Austria, Switzerland, England, Czech Republic, Slovenia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Argentina, Venezuela and United States, reshaking everywhere the unanimous critics and audience admiration.
He is currently the Chairman of the Department of Music Performance at the Assumption University of Thailand, and also collaborates with several international music institutions.