discographic critic and writer on music, he was for several years editor and reviewer for the Italian magazines CD Classics, Orfeo, Audiophile Sound and Il Giornale della Musica and now is musicological advisor of Sound and Music (Lucca) and Ducale (Brebbia), two firms that distribute in exclusive for Italy the products of important labels: Hyperion, Chandos, CPO, LSO Live, Brilliant Classics, Naxos, Harmonia Mundi and ECM. Tasso held lectures about the evolution of the baroque repertoire interpretation in the Conservatories of Vicenza and Potenza, taught courses of musical critic from 2007 to 2012 in the Conservatory “A. Vivaldi” of Alessandria and in 2014 in the Conservatory “G. Puccini” of La Spezia.

 

Tasso collaborates stably with many of the most interesting early music ensembles of Italy, like Accademia Bizantina (Ravenna), Accademia del Ricercare (San Raffaele Cimena), Auser Musici (Pisa), Festina Lente (Roma), I Musici di Santa Pelagia (Torino), Les Nations (Bologna) and La Confraternita de’ Musici (Brindisi) and with several important festivals: Antiqua (district of Torino), Regie Sinfonie (Torino), Il Suono del Sacro (Marostica), Festival Barocco di Roma and Barocco Festival Leonardo Leo (San Vito dei Normanni).

 

Tasso was involved in the editions of many books for the EDT publisher (Torino) and wrote the papers of the proceedings of some international conferences (Interpretare Mozart, LIM Lucca, Cento e una sinfonia, Patron Bologna, Marco Enrico Bossi, alto signore dei suoni, Patron Bologna) and edited the first Quaderno of the sacred festival Creator (Faenza), dedicated to the Johann Adolph Hasse oratorio Sant’Elena al Calvario. In the last years Tasso made a deal with Real Sound of Udine in order to record CDs of Italian music by Italian artists for labels as CPO, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Avie and MDG and to promote the activity of several early music ensemble.