Luca Guglielmi (*Turin, Italy, 1977) is a conductor, composer, soloist on historical keyboards (harpsichord, organ, clavichord, and fortepiano), and musicologist. Renowned for his “historically informed” approach to music from all periods, Guglielmi’s extensive repertoire spans from Gesualdo to Stravinsky. He is deeply committed to the study and application of the phenomenology of music.

Guglielmi made his debut with the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra in 2019 and at the Gran Teatre del Liceu in Barcelona in 2023. His conducting mentors include Jordi Savall, with whom he has collaborated and assisted since 1998, and Sir Simon Rattle, who has invited him to assist in the upcoming production of Mozart’s “Don Giovanni” at the 2025 Aix-en-Provence Festival.

In Italy, Guglielmi has conducted several prestigious orchestras, including the ORT-Orchestra Regionale Toscana, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Orchestra Filarmonica di Torino, Orchestra Sinfonica Abruzzese, Orchestra Milano Classica, the RAI Turin Choir, and the Cappella Musicale di Santa Maria dei Servi in Bologna.

Recently, Guglielmi assisted Jordi Savall in “La Clemenza di Tito” for the Salzburg Mozartwoche and in orchestral projects with Le Concert des Nations, performing a repertoire that includes Beethoven’s nine symphonies and Missa Solemnis, Schubert’s 8th and 9th symphonies, Mendelssohn’s “Italian Symphony” and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” incidental music, Bruckner’s Symphony Nr. 0 “Nullte”. Upcoming engagements include Mendelssohn “Walpurgisnacht” and Symphony Nr. 3 alongside Jordi Savall.

Parallel to his conducting career, Guglielmi has been active as a harpsichord and organ soloist, continuo player, chamber musician, and choir director since 1993. He was awarded “Honorable Mention” at the XII International Organ Competition in Bruges and studied under Ton Koopman, Patrizia Marisaldi, Vittorio Bonotto, Alessandro Ruo Rui, and Sergio Pasteris.
Guglielmi has collaborated with notable soloists such as Cecilia Bartoli, Sara Mingardo, Barbara Bonney, Philippe Jaroussky, Giuliano Carmignola, Paolo Pandolfo, Ottavio Dantone, Gabriele Cassone, Paul O’Dette, and Katia and Marielle Labéque. He has also worked with ensembles including Il Giardino Armonico, Ricercar Consort, Ensemble La Fenice, The Rare Fruits Council, Freiburger Barockorchester, and the RAI National Symphony Orchestra (under Jeffrey Tate, Roberto Abbado, Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Ton Koopman, Robert King, and Ottavio Dantone).

Awarded two Diapason d’or (for Bach’s “Goldberg Variations” and Pasquini’s “Sonate da gravecembalo”) and an Editor’s Choice by Gramophone magazine (for “Bach in Montecassino”), Luca Guglielmi has an extensive discography of over fifty titles, including more than twenty solo recordings, covering a repertoire from Frescobaldi to Mozart for labels such as Decca, Teldec, Avi, Accent, cpo, Vivat, Hänssler Classics, Stradivarius, and Elegia.

A passionate and enthusiastic teacher, he has taught at early music courses in Pamparato, Barbaste, and Urbino, basing his teaching entirely on ancient treatises and historical sources. Since 2014, he has been a professor of harpsichord, fortepiano, and chamber music at the ESMuC (Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya) in Barcelona.