Giulio Quirici studied jazz and early music at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague. He has collaborated with leading baroque ensembles and orchestras on period instruments, appearing on Sony Classical, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Warner Classics and many more. He won the Händel Göttingen Competition and the Utrecht Van Wassenaer Competition with Radio Antiqua. As an ensemble leader he received 5 Diapasons for the première recording of Jean-Baptiste Morin’s "French Cantatas", and he was regularly invited by Capella Cracoviensis to conduct from the theorbo. Giulio's research cultivates a dialogue between modern guitar and its early European traditions, focusing in particular on the paradigm of the composing guitarist in relationship to its shape-shifting instrument. Rooted in early European traditions, Giulio's original music branches out in surprising directions, unrestrained.
