Paolo Da Col studied music at the Conservatory of Bologna and musicology at the University of Venice and at the Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance in Tours. From a very young age he focused his interests on the repertoire of Renaissance and pre-classical music, constantly combining research and performance. He is the Librarian of the Conservatory of Venice, directed with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini and directs the magazine “L’Organo”, has worked as a music critic, has directed the music catalogue of the publisher Arnaldo Forni of Bologna, is the curator of editions of instrumental and vocal music and the author of catalogues of musical collections and essays on the history of vocality. He collaborates on the critical edition of the works of Carlo Gesualdo da Venosa and Giuseppe Tartini and is a teacher of the Courses of Ancient Music in Urbino. In 1998 he founded the vocal ensemble Odhecaton, with which he recorded about twenty CDs that obtained the major recording awards, including 7 diapason d’or and 2 diapason d’or dell’année. With Odhecaton he received the Abbiati Award from Italian music critics in 2018.
