Giulio Quirici CV & Portfolio


Brussels-based italian musician Giulio Quirici studied jazz and early music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He has collaborated with leading baroque ensembles and orchestras on period instruments, appearing on Sony Classical, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Warner Classics and many more. He won the Händel Göttingen Competition and the Utrecht Van Wassenaer Competition with Radio Antiqua. As an ensemble leader he received 5 Diapasons for the première recording of Jean-Baptiste Morin’s “French Cantatas” (on Belgial label EtCetera), and he was regularly invited by Capella Cracoviensis to conduct from the theorbo. Rooted in early European traditions, Giulio’s original music branches out in surprising directions, unrestrained. “We never heard music like this before” – Akustik Gitarre Magazine

PhD in The Arts (start September 2025)
Universiteit Antwerp, Royal Conservatoire Antwerp, docARTES

MASTER OF MUSIC
Royal Conservatory of The Hague, 2015
Early music: lute, theorbo and guitar

BACHELOR OF MUSIC
Royal Conservatory of The Hague, 2013
Jazz guitar (until 2010), Early music

Mozarteum Salzburg / Bremen Hochschule
(Summer course, 2010 – Lute)

Berklee College of Music
(Summer course, 2007 – Jazz guitar)

The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music
(Summer workshop, 2005 & 2006 – Jazz guitar)

Camerata Amsterdam Royal Concertgebouw, Orquestra Filarmonica de Gran Canaria, Il Gardellino, Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestra, Il Pomo d’Oro, Les Musiciens du Louvre, MusicAeterna St. Petersburg, Nationale Opera, Vox Luminis, La Sfera Armoniosa, Opera de Rouen Normandie, Boston College, University of Ankara, etc… in festivals and concerts halls in Europe, North & South America, Asia.

2014-2022 Tenured Instrumental Music Teacher (Guitar) at the British School in The Netherlands.
Featured as a guitarist in many pedagogical workshops including by Boston College, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures (2017), Conservatory of Amsterdam, Open Recorder Days (2016), University of Ankara (2014)

As a solo artist:
2021 Artist in residence: Centre Culturel d’Uccle
2021 Artist in residence: Concertgebouw Bruges (with Isabel Favilla)

With the ensemble Radio Antiqua:
2016 2nd prize + public prize at the International Van Wassenaer Utrecht, NL
2015 Ensemble in residence : National University of Music Bucarest, ROU
2014 1st & public prize at the International Händel Festspiele Göttingen competition, DE
2013-15 Ensemble in residence: Centre Culturel de Rencontre d’Ambronay, FR
2013-15 Ensemble in residence Collegio Ghislieri Pavia, IT

2016 Eigen Muziekinstrument Foundation (Amsterdam) scholarship

2006, 2007 Scholarships to NYC New School’s for Jazz and Contemporary music “Summer Jazz Workshop”

THE HISTORICALLY CURIOUS GUITARIST
Early music performance practices applied to contemporary fingerstyle 


Start september 2025

Could the modern guitar, viewed from a broad historical perspective and stripped of its vernacular associations, be fully perceived as part of the same instrumental lineage as its more classically established predecessors? This research investigates how today’s historically “informed” — or perhaps more accurately, historically curious — composing guitarist can engage deeply with early European performance practices for plucked instruments. The project focuses on the role of the instrumentalist composer in relation to the guitar as an ever-transforming instrument, and examines the interplay between compositional forces and organological change. By approaching the past–present continuum from this perspective, this research seeks to bridge the philosophical divide between historically authentic performance practice and the act of fully inhabiting one’s own time when producing new music. In doing so, it proposes the contemporary guitar as both a tool and a lens for revisiting repertoires that have remained comparatively reserved to period-authentic reinterpretation, yet whose paradigms are strikingly “modern”.


GIULIO QUIRICI SIGNATURE
7 String soprano guitar

2018-2019

In collaboration with luthier Pablo Sanchez Otero. This prototype is featured in Giulio’s album release “Day One“, 2020 receiving acclaim from the specialized international press. Listen and watch this guitar here.


THE WEISS THEORBO

2013-2015

Sylvius Leopold Weiss and his continuo instrument in the Hofkapelle of Dresden (Research Catalogue)

Supported by the Royal Conservatory of The Hague and De Stichting Eigen Muziekinstrument (SEM) this researched resulted in the study and reconstruction a less-known type of continuo instrument that I consistently use in my daily chamber music and orchestral activities to this day (link)


Composing guitarist playlist:

Baroque music on period instruments playlist:

Selected discography:

ITALIAN Native
ENGLISH Full proficiency
PORTUGUESE Full proficiency
FRENCH Professional working proficiency
SPANISH Professional working proficiency
DUTCH Elementary proficiency

Concert archive: