My guest on the 64th episode of "Dress Rehearsal" is Italian pianist, fortepianist and harpsichordist, Gian Maria Bonino, who graduated in piano performance at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatory in Milan with Prof. Lydia Arcuri and at the Lucerne Conservatory with Maestro Myeczislaw Horszowski. He also graduated in harpsichord at the Conservatory of Genova in Italy with Prof. Alda Bellasich. He has played as a soloist and in formation in international festivals such as the music festival in Ljubljana, the Festival of Mediterranean Sounds, the Floraisons Musicales, the Emilia Romagna Festival and many others. Together with flutist Andrea Oliva, he has recorded the complete sonatas for flute and harpsichord by George Friedrich Handel and with flutist Luca Ripanti the complete sonatas for flute and harpsichord by J.S. Bach and he has recently recorded the complete Etudes by Frederick Chopin. Gian Maria Bonino has also played and collaborated with the Virtuosen of the Berliner Philharmoniker and at the Luzern Festival in Switzerland with the Kamerata Berlin and with oboist Albrecht Mayer. Gian Maria Bonino since more than two decades has dedicated himself to the exploration of historical keyboard instruments and historically informed performance. Gian Maria Bonino also holds the professorship of “historically informed performance for keyboard instruments” at the Conservatory of Alessandria, in Italy. During the hour will hear M.stro Bonino speak about historically informed performance and will listen to the complete recording of Beethoven's Sonata Op.2 N.2, recorded on a Viennese Johann Schantz fortepiano from early 1800. Don't miss it!