Walter Maioli

Walter Maioli, born in Milan in 1950, is an Italian researcher, paleorganologist, multi-instrumentalist and composer who has spent more than thirty-five years studying the music of antiquity and prehistory. Specialised in experimental archaeology, he reconstructs and plays the instruments of archaic civilisations, and has explored the folk traditions of the Mediterranean, learning Arabic, African, Asian and European music since the early 1970s.