Mattia Zappa

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Mattia Zappa (born May 2, 1973 in Locarno ) is a Swiss cellist.

Zappa was a student of Taisuke Yamashita at the Lugano Conservatory. He continued his training in Harvey Shapiro's soloist class at the Juilliard School and completed his soloist diploma with Thomas Demenga at the Basel Music Academy in 1988 . He received a master's degree in sonata repertoire at the Accademia Pianistica in Imola under the direction of Pier Narciso Masi . For his interpretation of Tchaikovsky's Rococo Variations he received the European Music Prize.

Zappa has performed as a soloist with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana , the Basler Symphonieorchester , the Festival Strings Lucerne , the Academic Orchestra Zurich , the Swiss Chamber Philharmonic , the Orchester de Chambre de Genève and the Johannesburg Philharmonic Orchestra . Since September 2000 he has been a member of the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zurich; In 2007 he also played as an assistant with the Berliner Philharmoniker . Since 2012 he has been a lecturer for violoncello and chamber music at the University of Music in Lugano. He has won various international chamber music competitions (including the Premio Vittorio Gui in Florence) and has made CD recordings with works by Bohuslav Martinu , Jean Sibelius , Edvard Grieg and others.

At the Juilliard School in 1994 he met the Italian pianist Massimiliano Mainolfi , who has been his regular duo partner ever since. Both made their debut at Carnegie Hall in 2001 and in the chamber music hall of the Berliner Philharmoniker in 2003, and have performed in major music centers in Europe, South Africa and the United States. Zappa is also a member of the lucerne string trio and the Chamber Jazz Duo with the Zurich jazz pianist Ivaylo Kovachev . With Rino Rossi , his father Marco and his sister Daria Zappa , he forms the Marco Zappa Family group .

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SURNAME Zappa, Mattia
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss cellist
DATE OF BIRTH May 2nd 1973
PLACE OF BIRTH Locarno