Andrea Marcon

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Andrea Marcon

Andrea Marcon (born February 7, 1963 in Treviso ) is an Italian organist , harpsichordist and conductor .

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Andrea Marcon began his musical education at the age of seven. He studied organ and harpsichord with Vanni Ussardi at the Conservatory of Castelfranco Veneto and was appointed chief organist at the Treviso Cathedral in 1983. From 1983 to 1987 he studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis with Jean-Claude Zehnder , Jesper Christensen and Jordi Savall . He also attended master classes with Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini , Hans van Nieuwkoop , Harald Vogel and Ton Koopman .

In 1985 he was one of the winners of the Musica Antiqua Competition in Bruges , in 1986 of the Paul Hofhaimer Organ Competition in Innsbruck and in 1991 of the Harpsichord Competition in Bologna . In 1986 he received the Regio-Förderpreis für Musik in Colmar .

From 1983 to 1997 he was harpsichordist and organist in the ensemble for early music he founded, Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca . In 1989 he founded the organ festival Città di Treviso e della Marca Trevigiana, in 1990 the organ academy at Goldrain Castle ( South Tyrol ) and in 1995 the organ academy in Città di Treviso. In 1997 he founded the Venice Baroque Orchestra , which is dedicated, among other things, to the performance of baroque operas .

He appears at international concerts as an organ and harpsichord soloist. As a soloist, with the Sonatori della Gioiosa Marca and the Venice Baroque Orchestra, he made recordings for radio and CD. In 1996 he received the German Record Critics' Prize and the Antonio Vivaldi International Prize for Early Italian Music for the organ CD The Heritage of Frescobaldi ; The 1997 CD Sonatas for Organ by Domenico Scarlatti also received the German Record Critics' Prize.

With the Venice Baroque Orchestra he performed Francesco Cavalli's L'Orione in 1998 , Georg Friedrich Handel's Siroe in 2000 and Domenico Cimarosa's L'olimpiade in 2001 . In 2002 he conducted the orchestra at concerts in the Concertgebouw , at the Proms and in twenty US cities. In 2004 he conducted Handel's Ariodante at the Frankfurt Opera . In February 2010, Marcon Vivaldi's opera Orlando furioso re-established and conducted in the Frankfurt Opera. In 2005 he performed Bach's harpsichord concerts with Katia and Marielle Labèque .

Andrea Marcon has been teaching harpsichord at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis since 1997 and is also a visiting professor at the Sweelink Conservatory in Amsterdam. Marcon has been artistic director of the La Cetra Barockorchester Basel since 2009 . He has also conducted several operas at Theater Basel , including La Calisto by Francesco Cavalli. In 2014 he directed the first modern performance of Antonio Caldara's Serenata La concordia de 'pianeti .

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SURNAME Marcon, Andrea
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Italian organist, harpsichordist and conductor
DATE OF BIRTH February 7, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Treviso