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Marco Scavazza
Having begun his musical education at a young age,
Marco Scavazza graduated from the Conservatorio
Statale di Musica in Rovigo, where he studied
French horn performance and singing, as well as
completing a course in keyboard instrument repair
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and tuning. In the area of chamber music, he trained
under Erik Battaglia. Because Scavazza specializes
in early music, he has had the opportunity to
collaborate with such artists as Jordi Savall, Andrew
Lawrence King, Kees Boeke, Sigisvald and Barthold
Kuijken, Claudio Abbado, Rinaldo Alessandrini,
Diego Fasolis and Fabio Biondi, taking part in
festivals all over the world, including the Festival di
Musica Antica at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza,
Festival Barocco in Viterbo, Musica e poesia in San
Maurizio, Festival Monteverdiano in Cremona,
Festival dei Saraceni in Mondovì, Música de los
Siglos de Oro in Madrid, Festival de Musique
Ancienne in Ribeauville, Boston Early Music
Festival, Connections Musicians & Poets in Chicago
and Festival van Vlaanderen. Since 1998, he has led
the Coro Polifonico Città di Rovigo, from which
the members of his recently-founded and thriving
chamber vocal ensemble Nuova Accademia degli
Addormentati are taken. In 2006, he appeared
on the opera stage for the first time as Masetto
(W. A. Mozart’s Don Giovanni) with La Petite
Bande under the direction of Sigisvald Kuijken in
Beaune and at the Concertgebouw in Bruges; two
years later, he sang in F. Cavalli’s La virtù dei strali
d’Amore led by Biondi in Venice and Florence. In
September 2009, he debuted at Teatro alla Scala in
C. Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo staged by Robert Wilson
under the baton of Alessandrini; the artist has also
recorded this work, as well as A. Vivaldi’s Vespri
per l’Assunzione di Maria Vergine for the Naïve
label, accompanied by Concerto Italiano under his
direction. Together with Cantica Symphonia and
Giuseppe Maletto, he received five Diapasons d’Or
for recordings including G. Dufay’s Quadrivium,
which was also awarded a Choc de la Musique (2005),
was well as A. Busnois’ L’Homme armé (Glossa).
Marco Scavazza was also the winner of Premio
Amadeus 2008, which he received for his recording
of Orlando di Lasso’s Prophetiae Sibyllarum. He is
also involved with newer repertoire and has taken
part in recordings of C. Ambrosini’s Passione
secondo Marco (for the Tractus label) as well as
L. Mosci’s Mister Me (DVD, Edizioni L’Unità).