Keyboardist Riccardo Doni is a key figure of the Italian Baroque music scene, directing and playing harpsichord for a large variety of early music ensembles. He is conductor of the Accademia Musicale dell'Annunciata ensemble.
Doni was born on July 21, 1965, in Milan. He attended the Arrigo Boito Conservatory of Music and Drama in Parma, where he studied with Lorenzo Ghielmi. Doni went on for further studies in harpsichord and organ at the Schola Cantorum in Basel, Switzerland, with Jean-Claude Zehner. In 1994, he began a long association with the Baroque group Il Giardino Arm...