Laura Marzadori
She won the international competition for first shoulder violin of the Orchestra del Teatro alla Scala in Milan, with the unanimous judgment of the commission chaired by Daniel Barenboim, and since May 2015, after a demanding trial period, she has officially held this prestigious role which, in just a few months, has given her the opportunity to work with the greatest conductors in the world: Daniel Barenboim, Riccardo Chailly, Daniele Gatti, Daniel Harding, Zubin Mehta, Antonio Pappano, Georges Prêtre, Daniel Harding, Myung-Whung Chtre. In addition to her commitment to La Scala, she continues her solo and chamber music activity, collaborating with important conductors and instrumentalists.
At a very young age, she came to the attention of the public and critics, winning the highest awards in numerous competitions, including the “Andrea Amati” festival in Cremona (president of the jury Salvatore Accardo), the National Prize for the Arts (president of the jury Uto Ughi, which thus motivated the jury's decision “For creative musicality and absolute control. For the spontaneity of phrasing combined with a continuous search for the beauty of sound”), the Postacchini International Competition where she also received the special prize for the best performance of Paganini's Caprices and won the most important national violin competition at the age of 16: the “Città di Vittorio Veneto” Award. On that occasion, she also won the Gulli prize for the best performance of Mozart. In 2011 and 2012, she was a prize-winning finalist at the Sion International Violin Competition and at the Buenos Aires International Competition, president of the jury, Shlomo Mintz. In 2013, with the AMAR Trio, of which she is a member together with Leonora (piano) and Ludovico Armellini (cello), she received from the board of the National Association of Music Critics the “XXXII Abbiati Prize” dedicated to “Piero Farulli”.
She has given numerous concerts in Italy and abroad (United States, Spain, Austria, Czech Republic, Ukraine, Germany, Switzerland, Uruguay, Teatro Coliseum in Buenos Aires, Konser Salonu in Istanbul and Auditorium Parco della Musica in Rome) collaborating with conductors such as Donato Renzetti and Andrea Battistoni and with prestigious orchestras: the Toscanini Philharmonic, the Orchestra del Regio di Parma, the Orchestra Regione Toscana, the Orchestra della RAI in Turin, the Orchestra di S. Cecilia, the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Orchestra dei Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan, the Chamber Orchestra of La Scala and the Virtualists Osi of the Teatro alla Scala. His solo debut at the Teatro alla Scala dates back to December 2013 in Russian Seasons, a score for string orchestra, solo violin and female voice by Leonid Desyatnikov. In 2018 she accompanied, as a solo artist, the Cameristi della Scala in their debut in India with concerts in Calcutta, New Delhi and Mumbai, with a program of music by Rossini, Paganini, Sivori and Bazzini. In the same year she performed at the Carlo Felice in Genoa with the Orchestra del Teatro directed by Daniel Smith, Paganini's Concerto No. 4 with the famous violin the “Cannon” that belonged to the author.
Passionate about chamber music, she has played in chamber ensembles with Salvatore Accardo, Pavel Berman, Rocco Filippini, Bruno Canino, Antonio Meneses, Antony Pay, Andrea Lucchesini and Bruno Giuranna and recently with several colleagues from La Scala, including the first parts Simonide Braconi, Massimo Polidori, Sandro Laffranchini, Alessandro Serra and Francesco Siragusa. She also collaborates with young musicians and has performed several times as a trio in the Concerti per il Quirinale broadcast live by RAI-Radio3. She founded a string trio with the sisters Sara and Irene with particular attention and research for the repertoire. In 2018 she performed as a quintet and trio with the great conductor and pianist Myung-Whung Chung.
In February 2010 she performed a world première in New York the concerto for violin and orchestra in A major. P. 49 by Ottorino Respighi, who recorded for NAXOS. Released in May 2011 in the United States and England, the CD was welcomed by international critics.
In 2012 Shlomo Mintz invited her to record two lessons for his Online Music Academy, and at the end of the year a DVD was released for Dynamic with her lesson at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona with Salvatore Accardo. With the Orchestra della Città di Ferrara conducted by Marco Zuccarini, she performed, as an Italian premiere, and recorded live for Tactus. the concerto for violin and orchestra in D major op.26 by Ermanno Wolf Ferrari and the concerto for violin and orchestra Op.20 by Leone Sinigaglia. In 2018 she got the cover of Amadeus with a CD dedicated to two unreleased Concerts by Giuseppe Tartini recorded with the new Ferruccio Busoni chamber orchestra conducted by Massimo Belli. Also for Amadeus, in 2015, the recording of Mozart's Duets and Händel's Sarabanda and Passacaglia recorded live with Simonide Braconi, was released in download form.
She started playing the violin at the age of four with Fiorenza Rosi, an extraordinary teacher of the Suzuki method. After graduating with honors and special mention from the Martini Conservatory in Bologna, she studied extensively with Marco Fornaciari. She perfected herself with Giuliano Carmignola and Pavel Berman and followed Salvatore Accardo's courses for a long time at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona and at the Chigiana in Siena, where she received the Diploma of Honor reserved for the best students for two years. She was a student of the great teacher and violinist Zakhar Bron for many years and studied with him at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zurich.
She plays a 1925 Giuseppe Fiorini violin.
