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Gianandrea Pauletta

The Variations Goldberg, by Johann Sebastian Bach, is the work carried out by the Italian harpsichordist Gianandrea Pauletta, a concert that closes the VII International Festival of Musica Antiga of Caimari 2017.

This musical composition for keyboard was completed by Bach in 1741, when he was a singer in the church of Santo Tomás de Leipzip and owes its name to the harpsichordist Johann Gottlieb Goldberg, a disciple of the German baroque composer and who could be the first to interpret it.

Gianandrea Pauletta was born in Treviso in 1967 and studied at the Conservatory of Venice, obtaining the diploma of prepoliponic liturgical music (Gregorian chant), organ and organ composition and main composition.
He studied orchestra conducting at the Bologna Conservatory and was organ and composition teacher at the conservatory of Cagliari (1992-94) and at the Diocesan Institute of Sacred Music of Treviso (1989-2000).

In Venice he was the head-organist of the church of San Felice (1979-81), the basilica of San Giorgio Maggiore (1981-97) and the church of Santa Maria di Nazareth (1997). He is currently  clavicembalist in the ensemble Interpreti Veneziani and director of Ensemble Vocale di Venezia.

Throughout his career he has won numerous national and international competitions. Among the latter, the International Composition Contest 'Rino Benedet' by Bibione 2017, won with the organ piece Toccata Tremens.