Nicola Reniero, organist and harpsichordist, is a musician with a strong personality who is mainly dedicated to the performance and study of the musical repertoire, especially Italian, of the 16th, 17th and 18th centuries. He has given numerous concerts in Italy and abroad (Europe, U.S.A., South America, Japan), both as soloist and continuo accompanist in chamber, vocal and orchestral ensembles (L’Arte dell’Arco, I Solisti Filarmonici Italiani, I Virtuosi Italiani, Philarmonische Camerata Berlin, Alessandro Stradella Consort, Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, Ensemble Musagète, Reale Corte Armonica Caterina Cornaro, Orchestra d’Archi Italiana, I Madrigalisti Ambrosiani, I Cantori di Santomio, and numerous others), as well as as an animator of various ensembles. He has also collaborated with important conductors and soloists (C. Hogwood, G. Leonhardt, M. Radulescu, R. Clemencic, S. Vartolo, C. Miatello, C. Desderi, M. Brunello, M. Stockausen, P. Wispelwey and M. Maisky). With the group “L’Arte dell’Arco” (of which he was a member and one of the founders) he has carried out an intense concert and discogra c activity (Dynamic, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, CPO, ASV, Brilliant), often oriented to re-present pieces and composers that are rare or normally excluded from current repertoires. With the same group he was engaged in the integral recording of Giuseppe Tartini’s concertos (about 135 concerts in 29 CDs, recently completed), of which he also edited the critical revisions and the completion of the missing parts; also with L’Arte dell’Arco he recorded, among other things, a Vivaldi disc under the direction of C. Hogwood. He has also recorded for the Denon, Gaudeamus, Amadeus, Velut Luna, Pavane, Nuova Era, Tactus, Altus and Musicaimmagine Records labels, totaling about 90 CDs. He is also dedicated to musicological research, especially on the musical language of the 1600s and 1700s, and for this he has been invited to give lectures and talks as part of courses and conferences. In collaboration with G. Guglielmo, C. Lazari and F. Guglielmo he edited the critical edition of G. Tartini’s 12 Concerti op. 1; recently he edited the new critical edition of A. Corelli’s 12 Concerti Grossi op. VI for the Carisch publishing house in Milan. From 1995 to 2002 he was professor of Basso Continuo at the “Settore Musica Antica” of the Milan School of Music. He is, in addition, author of compositions for organ, voices, choir and chamber ensemble and editor of transcriptions and orchestrations. With the diptych “Zwei Orgelstücke” he won the 4th Varenna Organ Composition Competition (1996).