Luigi Marzola

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Luigi Marzola graduated from the ‘Conservatorio G.Verdi’ of Milan in Organ and Piano Studies and finished the five-year course in Choir Direction at the ‘Civica Scuola di Musica’.

He subsequently attended training courses with such internationally renowned teachers as Peter Erdei and Mark Brown, specializing with Norbert Balatsch at the ‘Accademia S.Cecilia’ of Rome. He has also studied singing with Margaret Hayward and chamber music vocal repertoire, as a pianist, with Dalton Baldwin.

His eclectic artistic work as an organist, fortepiano and harpsichord continuist, pianist and choir director has allowed him to work with numerous musicians and theatre directors, such as Moni Ovadia, Diego Fasolis, Peter Stein, Giovanni Sollima and Arturo Annecchino, upon invitation from various concert organizations (CRT, Change Performing Arts, Milano a Cielo Aperto, The Flanders Festival - Antwerp, The ‘L. Marenzio’ Early Music Festival, The Brescia International Sacred Music Festival, The Viadana Lodovican Festival, RSI Lugano, International Taipei Singing Competition – Taiwan, ‘Renata Tebaldi’ International Singing Competition).

As a choirmaster, his notable collaborations include those with director Peter Stein for the theatre productions of Heinrich von Kleist’s ‘Penthesilea’ and Euripides’ ‘Medea’ (in the Greek theatres of Urbisaglia, Siracusa, Epidauro, Merida, Karnuntum and tours in Italy’s greatest theatres) and those with Radio della Svizzera Italiana (Swiss-Italian Radio; among the most recent productions are: Haydn’s ‘Seasons’, Saint-Saëns’s ‘Requiem’, Verdi’s ‘Sacred Pieces’, Bloch’s ‘Sacred Service’, Mercadante’s ‘Last Seven Words’, Händel’s ‘Israel in Egypt’ and Donizetti’s ‘Requiem in D minor’.

In 2001 he contributed to the creation of a text on Italian phonetics and pronunciation for English singers (Gateway for Italian Diction – Ed. Alfred – Los Angeles) with John Paton, a researcher from the University of Southern California – Los Angeles, and in 2002, upon invitation from the Venice Cini Foundation and in collaboration with Professor Degrada and Professor Jonasova, he led a workshop on the sacred contrafacta of opera arias preserved in the Prague Castle archive.

He is regularly invited to sit on the jury panel for competitions, as well as being invited to hold masterclasses for singers and actors on vocalism and on lyrical and chamber music vocal repertoire, by a number of organizations, such as Change Performing Arts of Milano, the ‘Guido d’Arezzo’ Foundation, the ‘Istituto Nazionale per il Dramma Antico’ of Siracusa and the Beijing conservatory.

He has been teaching at the ‘Guido d’Arezzo’ Foundation’s Scuola Superiore per Direttori di coro (School of Choir Direction) since 2003/04.

He is the official pianist of the ‘Renata Tebaldi’ International Singing Contest of San Marino.

Since 1996 he has been the director of the ‘Cantemus’ vocal group of Lugano and in 1998 he formed the Calicanthus duo with soprano Dan Shen.

He is a master accompanist on the Piano at the ‘Conservatorio G. Verdi’ of Milano and Choimaster Professor at the Swiss Italian Conservatore in Lugano.