Andrea Coen graduated in musicology at the “La Sapienza” University in Rome, and received his degree in harpsichord from the Royal College of Music in London. After a period of research and study on the Renaissance, baroque and classical performance techniques, he dedicated himself to an intense concert career in Italy, Europe, USA and Japan, as soloist on the harpsichord, organ and fortepiano and in various chamber and vocal ensembles with important artistes and groups. He is the author of the first complete critical edition of Domenico Cimarosa’s keyboard Sonatas and Sextets and has edited the Intavolatura di Ancona (1644), several volumes of the Opera Omnia of Muzio Clementi. He is currently working on the first modern edition of Benedetto Marcello’s L’estro poetico-armonico. Coen is tenured harpsichord professor at L’Aquila’s State Conservatory, and has been invited to Yale, Cornell and Austin Universities for solo recitals, conferences and master classes.
He recently gave some much appreciated recitals at Fitzwilliam College (Cambridge), the Ravenna Festival, Tokyo Opera City and Innsbrucker Festwochen. His recordings can be found on the Stradivarius, Dynamic, EMI, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Denon, Musicaimmagine Records and Bongiovanni labels. After his acclaimed recording (three CDs) of Lodovico Giustini’s 12 Sonatas, six new CDs have now been issued by Brilliant Classics dedicated to Giuseppe and Giovanni Battista Sammartini, Domenico Scarlatti, Telemann, Vivaldi and C.P.E. Bach.
He performed at the Stresa Festival in 2010.