Marco Tezza is an Italian

Italy

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 pianist

Pianist

A pianist is a musician who plays the piano. A professional pianist can perform solo pieces, play with an ensemble or orchestra, or accompany one or more singers, solo instrumentalists, or other performers.-Choice of genres:...

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Biography

After a degree with honors in piano (1984), Tezza studied with Carlo Mazzoli, Jörg Demus

Jörg Demus

Jörg Demus is an Austrian pianist.At the age of six, Demus received his first piano lessons. Five years later, at the age of 11, he entered the Vienna Academy of Music, studying piano and conducting. He graduated in 1945, then 17 years old...

, György Sándor

György Sándor

György Sándor was a Hungarian pianist, writer, student and friend of Béla Bartók, and champion of his music.- Early years :...

, Bruno Canino

Bruno Canino

Bruno Canino is an Italian classical pianist and composer.-Early life:Bruno Canino was born in Naples, Italy in 1935, where he studied piano with Vincenzo Vitale. He continued his musical education in Milan, studying both piano and composition. His teachers included Enzo Calace and Bruno Bettinelli...

 and with Aquiles Delle Vigne

Aquiles Delle Vigne

Aquiles Delle Vigne , a pupil of Claudio Arrau, Eduardo del Pueyo and György Cziffra, is a concert pianist and a teacher from Argentina.-Early life:...

 at the Ecole Normale "Alfred Cortot

Alfred Cortot

Alfred Denis Cortot was a Franco-Swiss pianist and conductor. He is one of the most renowned 20th-century classical musicians, especially valued for his poetic insight in Romantic period piano works, particularly those of Chopin and Schumann.-Early life and education:Born in Nyon, Vaud, in the...

" in Paris. Besides, he won the first prize in several international piano competitions: Città di Treviso

Treviso

Treviso is a city and comune in Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Treviso and the municipality has 82,854 inhabitants : some 3,000 live within the Venetian walls or in the historical and monumental center, some 80,000 live in the urban center proper, while the city...

, La Spezia

La Spezia

La Spezia , at the head of the Gulf of La Spezia in the Liguria region of northern Italy, is the capital city of the province of La Spezia. Located between Genoa and Pisa on the Ligurian Sea, it is one of the main Italian military and commercial harbours and hosts one of Italy's biggest military...

, RAI, and received awards in other prizes: Moncalieri

Moncalieri

Moncalieri is a town and comune of approximately 58,000 inhabitants about eight kilometers directly south of downtown Turin , in Piedmont, Italy. It is notable for its castle, built in the 12th century and enlarged in the 15th century, which later became the favorite residence of Maria Clotilde...

 (European Prize for Chamber Music), Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni

Ferruccio Busoni was an Italian composer, pianist, editor, writer, piano and composition teacher, and conductor.-Biography:...

, Pretoria

Pretoria

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 and Viotti.

Tezza often performs in prestigious concert-halls in Europe, America, Africa and the Middle-East. Among them: La Fenice

La Fenice

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 Theatre in Venice

Venice

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, Zurich Tonhalle, Salle Cortot in Paris

Paris

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, Musikhalle in Hamburg

Hamburg

-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...

, Tawes Theatre

Tawes Theatre

The Tawes Fine Arts Building, also known as Tawes Theatre and Tawes Hall, is the home of the University of Maryland's Department of English and is the former home of the Department of Theatre and the School of Music...

 in Washington, D.C.

Washington, D.C.

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 Villa Lobos Hall in San Paulo, Assembly Hall in Beirut

Beirut

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.

He has held master classes at the "Université de S. Esprit" in Beirut

Beirut

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, (where he is visiting professor), at the Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne

Melbourne

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 and in the University of South Florida

University of South Florida

The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is a member institution of the State University System of Florida, one of the state's three flagship universities for public research, and is located in Tampa, Florida, USA...

.

Tezza, who holds also a diploma in violin

Violin

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, in 1994 founded the Stravinskij Chamber Orchestra which he conducted for several years.

In his career Marco Tezza has collaborated both as a soloist and as a conductor with several Chamber and Symphonic Orchestras, such as I Fiati della Scala, Accademia Bizantina, Orchestra Sinfonica Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini

Arturo Toscanini was an Italian conductor. One of the most acclaimed musicians of the late 19th and 20th century, he was renowned for his intensity, his perfectionism, his ear for orchestral detail and sonority, and his photographic memory...

, Orchestra di Padova

Padua

Padua is a city and comune in the Veneto, northern Italy. It is the capital of the province of Padua and the economic and communications hub of the area. Padua's population is 212,500 . The city is sometimes included, with Venice and Treviso, in the Padua-Treviso-Venice Metropolitan Area, having...

 e del Veneto

Veneto

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, Sofia

Sofia

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 Chamber Orchestra, Jeunesse Musicale Symphony Orchestra, Praga

Prague

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 Symphony Orchestra, Sofia

Sofia

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 FM Young Radio Orchestra and many others.


Marco Tezza has been partner of Ughi

Uto Ughi

Diodato "Uto" Ughi is an Italian violinist and conductor. He was the music director of l'Orchestra dell'Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia from 1992-1997...

, Brunello

Mario Brunello

Mario Brunello is a renowned worldwide Italian cellist and musician. The turning point in his artistic life was the 1986 victory of the International Tchaikovsky Competition-Origins and musical beginnings:...

, Carmignola

Giuliano Carmignola

Giuliano Carmignola is an Italian violinist.- Life :Coming from a family of musicians, Carmignola began his violin studies with the support of his father Antonio to enter the Conservatorio di Musica Benedetto Marcello di Venezia with Luigi Ferro...

, Ashkenazy

Vladimir Ashkenazy

Vladimir Davidovich Ashkenazy is a Russian-Icelandic conductor and pianist. Since 1972 he has been a citizen of Iceland, his wife Þórunn's country of birth. Since 1978, because of his many obligations in Europe, he and his family have resided in Meggen, near Lucerne in Switzerland...

. He performs with Daniele Roccato (contrabass

Contrabass

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) and Massimiliano Pitocco (bandoneon

Bandoneón

The bandoneón is a type of concertina particularly popular in Argentina and Uruguay. It plays an essential role in the orquesta típica, the tango orchestra...

) in the cross-over ensemble TrisTango, inspired from Ástor Piazzolla

Ástor Piazzolla

Ástor Pantaleón Piazzolla was an Argentine tango composer and bandoneón player. His oeuvre revolutionized the traditional tango into a new style termed nuevo tango, incorporating elements from jazz and classical music...

's Tango

Tango music

Tango is a style of ballroom dance music in 2/4 or 4/4 time that originated among European immigrant populations of Argentina and Uruguay . It is traditionally played by a sextet, known as the orquesta típica, which includes two violins, piano, double bass, and two bandoneons...

s.

Tezza teaches piano at the Conservatory A. Pedrollo in Vicenza

Vicenza

Vicenza , a city in north-eastern Italy, is the capital of the eponymous province in the Veneto region, at the northern base of the Monte Berico, straddling the Bacchiglione...

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Recordings

He recorded several LPs and CDs for labels such as Balkanton, Klingsor, Velut Luna, OnClassical

OnClassical

OnClassical is a small Italian independent record label based in Pove del Grappa, Italy. It features classical music mostly for piano or chamber ensemble.- History :...

 and AS Disc.

External links

• Marco Tezza's official website
• Personal page with curriculum, reviews, photos, audio files at OnClassical
  OnClassical
  OnClassical is a small Italian independent record label based in Pove del Grappa, Italy. It features classical music mostly for piano or chamber ensemble.- History :...