Prof. Luigi Marzola

Italy

Luigi Marzola - Curriculum Vitæ Luigi Marzola graduated from the Conservatorio G. Verdi of Milan in Organ and Organ Composition, Piano, and in Choral Conducting at the Civica Scuola di Musica of Milan. He subsequently attended training courses in Choral Conducting with Peter Erdei and Mark Brown, specializing with Norbert Balatsch at the Accademia S. Cecilia of Rome. He also studied singing with Prof. Margaret Hayward and art song repertoire as a pianist with Dalton Baldwin. Luigi Marzola’s experience with a broad repertoire as an organist, pianist, choral conductor, and continuo performer on organ, harpsichord and fortepiano has allowed him to work with numerous musicians and theatre directors such as Moni Ovadia, Diego Fasolis, Peter Stein, Giovanni Sollima, Arturo Annecchino, Filippo Crivelli, Teresa Berganza, Sara Mingardo, as well as with various concert organizations upon invitation (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 choral conductor, his notable collaborations include those with director Peter Stein for the theatrical productions of Heinrich von Kleist Penthesilea and Euripides Medea (in the Greek theatres of Urbisaglia, Siracusa, Epidauro, Merida, Karnuntum and on tours of the greatest theatres in Italy and Europe), and those with Radio della Svizzera Italiana (Swiss-Italian Radio). Among the most recent productions are: J.S. Bach Mass in B minor, Bloch Sacred Service, Donizetti Requiem in D minor, Händel Israel in Egypt, Haydn Seasons, Mercadante Last Seven Words, Rossini Petite Messe Solennelle, Saint-Saëns Requiem, Verdi Sacred Pieces and Mozart Requiem. Since 1996, he has been director of the Cantemus vocal group of Lugano, and in 1998 he has set up the Calycanthus Duo with soprano Dan Shen. In 2001, he was the principal resource consultant in the creation of a textbook Gateway to Italian Diction (Alfred Publishing, Los Angeles) by John Glenn Paton (emeritus professor, University of Colorado). In 2002, upon invitation from Cini Foundation (Venice) and in collaboration with Professor Degrada and Professor Jonasova, he led a workshop on the sacred contrafacta of the opera arias preserved in the Prague Castle archive. He is regularly invited to sit on the jury panel for competitions and called to hold master classes for singers and actors on vocalism and on operatic and song 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, Beijing Conservatory of music and Furman University of South Carolina. He directed the Italian Youth Choir from 2016 to 2019 with which the performed concerts in Italy and abroad (Salerno, Florence, Naples, Bologna, Milan, Chiavenna, Tallin, Graz, Ljublijana, Rome, Genoa, Reggio Emilia, Bassano del Grappa, San Vito al Tagliamento). He is full Professor and Coordinator of Course of Collaborative Piano at the Conservatorio G. Verdi (Milan) and artistic director of polyphonic activities and of the Higher School for Choral Conductors of the Guido d’Arezzo Foundation.