Marco Tezza - pianist / conductor

Marco Tezza

It is a very difficult task to have to give an accurate idea of the rich and variform musical personality of MARCO TEZZA in just a few lines. An excellent academic preparation (top marks, honours and mention of honor in Italy and Diplome Superieur d Execution" at the Ecole Normale "A. Cortot" in Paris) he has received awards from the most prestigious piano competitions (Washington, Pretoria, Busoni, Viotti, etc.). 

Tezza 's intense concert activities have lead him to play in the most famous concert halls and to collaborate with the finest musicians Ashkenazy,Ughi, Hogwood... After completing his violin studies and to be an orchestra conductor he began a new career at the head of a very important formation in Europe, Asia, America, often in the double role of conductor and soloist. Tezza the conductor presents a vast repertoire, from baroque to contemporar music passing through opera (Boheme, Vascello Fantasma, Maria de Buenos Aires etc.) and giving a great deal of attention to the music of Piazzolla. He is well-known to the public and critics as an artist with a strong personality who never stops looking through scores to find new ways of interpreting them, for new expressive logics, new sonorities. He has been invited to hold Master Classes at very important institutes: Victorian College of the Arts in Melbourne; University of Sao Paolo, Brasil, National Musc Academy in Sofia, Bulgaria, University of S.Esprit in Beirut; University of South Florida; UNEAC in La Habana.He is the permanent artistic director of the Stravinskij Chamber Orchestra and he conducts concert seasons and musical festivals in Europe and in South America. He has recorded for Velut Luna, AS disc, Balkanton, Klingsor and On-Classical.

Tezza is often invited to be part of juries of international competitions. He is a member of the Accademia Veneta of Arts and Science.


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