Beniamino Paganini harpsichord, recorder, artistic director
Beniamino Paganini is a passionate traverso player, harpsichordist, music teacher and musicologist. He also performs on claviorgan, organ and recorder. He was named “Young Musician of the Year 2020” by the Belgian Music Press and selected as one of “twenty musicians in their twenties” in 2021 by Radio Klara. He has won several first prizes and also received the Sonderpreis der Jury at the Internationaler Telemann-Wettbewerb in Magdeburg (2021).
Beniamino is founder and, together with Nele Vertommen, artistic director of the ensemble Musica Gloria. With this ensemble, Beniamino performs some thirty concerts a year for festivals and concert halls such as AMUZ (Belgium), Bachfest Leipzig, BOZAR (Belgium), Concertgebouw in Bruges, De Bijloke (Belgium), Klara (Belgium), Les Festivals de Wallonie, MA Festival Brugge, Musica Antica (Netherlands) and Trigonale (Austria). He has produced numerous video recordings and six CDs with Musica Gloria, including “The Bachs & the Flute” and “Corelli & Handel: Encounters in Rome”.
He also collaborates in concerts and recordings with many other ensembles such as Il Gardellino (Jan de Winne and Marcel Ponseele), Scherzi Musicali (Nicolas Achten), B’Rock Orchestra and La Petite Bande (Sigiswald Kuijken). He is a harpsichord accompanist and teacher of temperaments and tuning at the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles.
Beniamino discovered his passion for early music at the age of seven. At sixteen he started his bachelor studies at both of the Royal Conservatories of Brussels, and later at the conservatories of Leuven and The Hague. He received his master’s degrees in Traverso (2016), Harpsichord (2017), Maestro al cembalo (2019) and a bachelor’s degree in Musicology (2018), all with great distinction. He studied traverso with Barthold Kuijken, Frank Theuns and Jan de Winne, Renaissance flute with Kate Clark and Patrick Beuckels, harpsichord with Frédérick Haas, Fabio Bonizzoni, Kris Verhelst and Patrick Ayrton. At the Catholic University in Leuven, Belgium, he studied musicology and obtained an Educational Master’s degree in Cultural Studies.
