Enrico Maria Barbareschi
born in 1965, completed his musical studies in Milan at the Civica Scuola di Musica under the guidance of Maestro Claudio Rossi, graduating in 1986 at the "Giuseppe Verdi" Conservatory.

He attended master classes held by renowned musicians such as Alirio Diaz, Oscar Ghiglia, Aldo Minella and Ruggero Chiesa. In 1989 he was ranked second in the auditions for the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala in Milan, an institution with whom he collaborated for the realization of the works "Der Jasager" by Kurt Weill and "Pollicino" by Hans Werner Henze, making recordings for the Ricordi record company.

Since 1999 he has been playing in a duo with the flautist Miriam Cipriani, with whom he recorded a cd, and in a Trio with the latter and the clarinettist Roberto Gander.

He is also involved in the field of education and is author of the book "Corso di chitarra classica”, published by De Vecchi Editore.

He is Professor of guitar at the "Giuseppe Nicolini" state Conservatory of Piacenza (IT).

Leopoldo Saracino is one of the leading guitarists in Italy. Born in Milano (Italy) in 1965 he made his debut at the age of 14. Since that time he has pursued a varied career as a recitalist, concerto soloist and chamber musician that brought him in Switzerland, Germany, Denmark, Finland, Austria, Greece, Canada and of course all over Italy. He studied with Ruggero Chiesa, at the State Conservatorium G.Verdi of Milan. Subsequent studies have been with David Russell, Oscar Ghiglia, Leo Brouwer, and David Tanenbaum. He won several international competitions, such as the international competition "M.Giuliani", the International Prize of Contemporary Music of Lagonegro and the Scandinavian International Guitar Competition. His particular interest is the original music of the 19th century played on an original instrument of Louis Panormo. He is regularly touring all Europe with concert programs including works by Rossini, Paganini, Giuliani among others. His love for chamber music brought him to the recordings of various Cds with several Masterpieces of the chamber repertoire of the classic style. To remember is the first modern recordings of the complete works of Ferdinando Carulli for guitar and Fortepiano in 8 Cds for the Label Nuova Era or the recordings of chamber works by Filippo Gragnani and Anton Diabelli. As solo player he recorded the 36 Capricci for solo guitar by Luigi Legnani. He likes also playing the traditional guitar and his repertoire is particularly wide and range from baroque to contemporary music. Leopoldo Saracino is not only a busy recitalist but his activity includes a lot of concerts with Contemporary music Ensembles. Among them he tour regularly with New Made Ensemble and Dedalo Ensemble. He collaborates with MDI Ensemble in the recording session of a CD dedicated to the italian composer Stefano Gervasoni. He is also member of the Italy based Guitar trio “Chitarra-trio” with whom he made the cd “Music for 18 strings”. He is professor in the state Conservatory in Brescia (Italy) and is regularly invited to hold masterclasses in Italy and Germany.