Founded in 2003 by the italian conductor Giulio Prandi, the organist Maria Cecilia Farina, the violinist Marco Bianchi and the cellist Alberto Guerrero, Arìon Choir & Consort is a periodinstrument group gathering 20 young choristers and some of the most skilled and renowned Italian baroque instrumentalists, senior members of the best Italian groups. Besides performing the best-known authors (Mozart, Vivaldi, Händel, Bach) Arìon has devoted itself to the rediscovery of the 18th Century Italian choral-instrumental sacred repertoire; in its many concerts it normally performs rare and unpublished works of such authors as Perti, D’Astorga, Durante, Traetta, Platti, Caldara. In the last years Arìon has been invited by the most important Italian Festivals (Festival Mito Settembre Musica in Milan, Accademia Chigiana in Siena, Settimane Musicali in Stresa, Nuove Settimane Barocche in Brescia) and broadcasted on national radio channels such as Rai Radio Tre. It rapidly became one of the best Italian emergent group, working with important solosingers such as Roberta Invernizzi, Gloria Banditelli, Christian Senn, Emanuela Galli, Maria Grazia Schiavo, José Maria Lo Monaco, Gabriella Sborgi. In 2009 recorded for the Italian magazine Amadeus a monographic CD on Giacomo Antonio Perti (Bologna, 1661-1756), that is going to be published next May. In 2010 started an important recording project with Deutsche Harmonia Mundi. Arìon is in residence at Collegio Ghislieri in Pavia, one of the most prestigious Italian University colleges. It is a member of ReteOrfeo, the Lombardy Regional Circuit of Ancient Music, regularly performing in Milan, Brescia and Mantua.

Marco Bianchi, Alberto Stevanin, violin
Gianni Maraldi, viola
Jorge Alberto Guerrero, cello
Giorgio Sanvito, double bass
Michele Pasotti, theorbo
Maria Cecilia Farina, organ
Irene Alfinito, Valentina Argentieri, Emma Popolani, Karin Selva, Sonia Tedla, sopranos
Carla Babelegoto, Silvia Bertoluzza, Morena Carlin, Ilaria Pasotti, Ilaria Ribezzi, altos
Gianfranco Cerreto, Yasuharu Fukushima, Salvatore Gaias, Sergio Martella, Paolo Tormene, tenors
Jacopo Binazzi, Daniele Brigante, Carlo Checchi, Paolo Graziano, Alessandro Nuccio, basses
Giulio Prandi, conductor