Biography Beniamino Paganini
Beniamino Paganini (b.1994) is a passionate traverso player, harpsichordist, maestro al cembalo and musicologist. He also performs on claviorganum, organ and recorder. He was named “Young Musician of the Year 2020” by the Belgian Music Press and selected as one of “twenty musicians in their twenties” in 2021 by Radio Klara. He has won several first prizes and also received the ‘Sonderpreis der Jury’ at the International Telemann Competition in 2021.
“[…] we’ll remember Beniamino Paganini, as brilliant on the harpsichord as on the traverso. […]” Diapason about a concert at Bachfest Leipzig.
Beniamino is founder and, together with Nele Vertommen, general and artistic director of the baroque ensemble Musica Gloria. With this ensemble, Beniamino performs some 30 concerts a year for organisations such as AMUZ (BE), Bachfest Leipzig (DE), BOZAR (BE), Concertgebouw Brugge (BE), De Bijloke (BE), Klara (BE), Kölner Philharmonie (DE), Les Festivals de Wallonie (BE), MA Festival (BE), Musica Antica (NL) and Trigonale Festival (AT). He has produced numerous video recordings and six CDs with Musica Gloria, including ‘The Bachs & The Flute’ and ‘Corelli & Handel: Encounters in Rome’. He also collaborates in concerts and recordings with many other ensembles such as Scherzi Musicali, Il Gardellino, Les Muffatti and B’Rock. At the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles he is harpsichord accompanist and teaches ‘tempéraments et accords’ and at the Kunstbrug in Gentbrugge he is harpsichord accompanist teacher of HIPP.
Beniamino discovered his passion for early music at the age of 7 and has continued to cultivate it ever since. At 16 he started his bachelor studies at both of the Royal Conservatories of Brussels, and later at the conservatories of Leuven and The Hague. He received his master’s degrees in Traverso (2016), Harpsichord (2017), Maestro al Cembalo (2019) and a bachelor’s degree in Musicology (2018), all with great distinction. He studied traverso with Barthold Kuijken, Frank Theuns and Jan De Winne, renaissance flute with Kate Clark and Patrick Beuckels, harpsichord with Frédérick Haas, Fabio Bonizzoni, Kris Verhelst and Maestro al Cembalo with Patrick Ayrton. At the KU Leuven, he studied Musicology and obtained an Educational Master’s degree in Cultural Studies.
