Born in 1960 in Rome, Andrea Coen is graduated in musicology at the “La Sapienza” University (Rome) with a dissertation on the long-neglected unpublished keyboard works of Domenico Cimarosa. He received his degree in harpsichord from the Royal College of Music in London, to which he has been an associated musician from 1987. After a period of research and study of Renaissance, Baroque and Classical performance techniques with such acclaimed musicians like Ton Koopman, Daniel Chorzempa, Alan Curtis, David Collyer, Glenn Wilson and Emilia Fadini, Andrea Coen dedicated himself to an intense concert career in Italy, Europe and Usa performing as soloist of harpsichord, organ and fortepiano and in various chamber and vocal ensembles. He is responsible for the first complete critical edition of the Domenico Cimarosa’s keyboard Sonatas and two Piano Sextets, and of the Intavolatura di Ancona (1644). At present he is in the scientific committee of the Opera Omnia di Muzio Clementi (60 vols), in the advisory board of Ad Parnassum, and he will realize the first critical edition of B. Marcello’s L’estro poetico-armonico (Brepols, Belgium). In 1991/92 concert season, sponsored from Italcable in the prestigious Teatro Sistina in Rome, Coen’s critical edition of G.B. Martini’s Don Chisciotte celebrated its modern première representation. Andrea Coen regulary collaborates with artists like Christopher Hogwood, Monica Huggett, Aris Christofellis, as well as the Ensemble Seicentonovecento (Rome) and L’Arte dell’arco (Padua). In 1992 he was responsible for the instrumental section, harpsichordist and organist for the Primo Festival di Musica Antica at the Teatro dell’Opera of Rome, a role that earned him the very important Golden Key for artistic merits. His most recent invitations for solo recitals include the Festival de St. Cerè (France), Festival Ciudad de Granada, Hochschule (Zürich), I Pomeriggi musicali di Milano, Bratislava Festival, Accademia Cristofori in Firenze for the inaugural concert for the recently restored Rosenberge fortepiano of 1790, Université de Fribourg, 12^th Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music (Leeds), Ucla (Los Angeles). He is in the scientific committée of the Foundation Le Colonne del Decumano of Naples.