Andrew Arceci

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Andrew Arceci is an Italian-American musician. He works as a performer, arranger/composer, conductor/director, and scholar throughout North America, Europe, and Asia.

A multi-instrumentalist, he performs regularly on the viola da gamba, violone, and double bass, and occasionally on the cittern, colascione, electric bass, guitar, and mandolin.[1][2]

Arceci has worked with a wide range of artists, including Adam Ross (musician), de:Alessandro Bosetti, Asako Takeuchi, Christopher Hogwood, Claire Fontijn, Edward Higginbottom, Elizabeth Hungerford, Elżbieta Sikora, Glen Velez, Jeremy Summerly, John Moran (cellist), Joshua Rifkin, Laurence Dreyfus, Lidiya Yankovskaya, zh:李文智 (Peter Lee), Randall Scotting, Reginald Mobley, Sheridan Tongue, and others.[3][4][5]

As a chamber and/or orchestral player, he's worked with A Far Cry, Boston Baroque, Boston Camerata, Cantata Singers and Ensemble, Collegium Musicum Den Haag (now New Collegium), Dunedin Consort, Emmanuel Music, Floyds Row, Folger Consort, Handel and Haydn Society, Handel Choir of Baltimore, Harmonious Blacksmith, Musica Sequenza, Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, Oxford Baroque, Spire Chamber Ensemble, Tempesta di Mare: Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, TENET, Venice Music Project, Washington Bach Consort, Washington National Cathedral, Worcester Chorus, and others.[6][7][8]

He studied at the Peabody Conservatory-Johns Hopkins University, The Juilliard School, and Magdalen College, Oxford.[9][10]

Discography

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  • 2008 – Stabat Mater. Ah Hong, Peter Lee, & Baltimore Baroque Band

The album won Best Religion Music Album: Stabat Mater 聖母哀悼曲 ／ 凌軒企業社 and Best Singer: Peter Lee 李文智／Stabat Mater 聖母哀悼曲／凌軒企業社 during the 20th Golden Melody Awards

  • 2010 – Non è Tempo. Peter Lee & The Peabody Consort
  • 2011 – Concertos, Sinfonias, & Sonatas. Geoffrey Burgess, baroque oboe
  • 2011 – Noël. Westminster Choir & Joe Miller, conductor
  • 2012 – Time. Andrew Arceci, viola da gamba
  • 2012 – The New Four Seasons. Musica Sequenza
  • 2013 – Handel: Messiah. Tempesta di Mare: Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra
  • 2013 – Musique sacrée. Choir of New College, Oxford & Oxford Baroque
  • 2014 – Españoletas. Harmonious Blacksmith
  • 2014 – Maurice Greene: Overtures. Baroque Band & Garry Clarke, director
  • 2014 – Greensleeves. Peter Lee & The Peabody Consort
  • 2015 – Love & Lust. Elizabeth Hungerford, soprano & Andrew Arceci, viola da gamba
  • 2016 – Stille Post. Radio Works: 2003-2011 (Alessandro Bosetti)
  • 2017 – Joseph Bodin de Boismortier: Sonates, Cantates, & Suites. ARCANUM Ensemble
  • 2018 – The Oxford Sessions. Floyds Row
  • 2019 – Treasures of Devotion: European Spiritual Song ca. 1500. The Boston Camerata

Conductor/Director

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References

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  1. ^ Reinhart, Brian. "Españoletas. Glen Velez (percussion), Harmonious Blacksmith". MusicWeb International.
  2. ^ Arceci, Andrew. "Andrew Arceci". Andrew Arceci (in Italian). Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  3. ^ Kozinn, Allan. "Embracing the Modern With Tone Clusters, Not Dissonance". The New York Times.
  4. ^ Kozinn, Allan. "Baroque Music So Clean It Runs Itself". The New York Times.
  5. ^ "Love & Lust". Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  6. ^ "Andrew Arceci | double bass | Emmanuel Music". www.emmanuelmusic.org. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  7. ^ "Andrew Arceci". Handel and Haydn Society. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  8. ^ "Winchendon Music Festival is set to celebrate 10th anniversary". Classical Music. Retrieved 2025-10-30.
  9. ^ https://www.music.ox.ac.uk/article/winchendon-music-festival-celebrates-10th-anniversary
  10. ^ Riley, Danny. "Musical histories in transit: Andrew Arceci". Bachtrack.