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Biography

Marco Zàppia

Born in Patti in 1996, he graduated with a score of 110 cum laude and honors obtaining the master degree in piano under the guidance of the professor Gaetano Indaco at the "A.Corelli" conservatoire in Messina and the bachelor degree in Composition with the professor Giovanni D'Aquila at the "A.Scarlatti" Conservatory in Palermo. Currently he is perfecting at the master in composition with the professor Fabio Correnti and at the master in choir conducting with the professor Mauro Visconti at the conservatoire of Palermo. He is also attending the composition course at the Fiesole School of Music with the professor Andrea Portera. For the academic year 2017/18, he won the scholarship offered in the 1st Edition of the Music Tree Award for the best performance among graduates with the highest marks. As part of the Erasmus project, he attended the "Institut Supérieur de Musique et Pédagogie" (IMEP) in Namur, Belgium, with professor Roberto Giordano.

He has participated in several national and international piano and chamber music competitions, winning first prize several times. Among the most recent ones: the national competition "P. Mandanici" in Barcellona P.G., the international competition "L. S. D'Agata" in Acireale, the international competition "Amigdala" in Aci Bonaccorsi, and the national competition "B.Albanese" in Caccamo. He won the regional audition to be part of the Sicilian Youth Orchestra for the biennium 2018-20.

He has performed as a soloist and in ensembles for various prestigious musical associations, festivals, and public institutions including the Accademia Filarmonica, the Vincenzo Bellini of Messina, Amici della musica "G.Mulè" of Termini Imerese, and Piano City Palermo.

He has perfected his skills in various masterclasses held by internationally renowned masters such as Gilda Buttà, Gerard Marie Fallour, Pierluigi Camicia, Leslie Howard, Roberto Cappello, Michele Campanella, and Benedetto Lupo.

He has attended several masterclasses held by important composers such as Orazio Sciortino, Oscar Strasnoy, Salvatore Sciarrino, Francesco Filidei, Franco Piersanti, Paolo Buonvino and Marco Betta.

He also attended an annual masterclass in Orchestra Conducting with Maestro Bruno Cinquegrani in the academic year 2017/18 and in Choir Conducting with Maestro Enzo Marino in August 2024.

He has participated in various national and international composition competitions, winning first prize several times. Some of his compositions have been published by publishers such as Universal Edition, Studiomusicalicata - musical editions and Cinque Linee Editions.

On the occasion of the Music Festival on June 21, 2022, his cadenza of the II movement of Mozart's Concerto for Flute, Harp, and Orchestra K299 was performed by the soloists of the Youth Orchestra at the Massimo’s theatre in Palermo. His flute solo piece "Zéphyros”, awarded with honorable mention in 2022 by the composition competition organized by the Flute New Music Consortium, has been performed several times in USA. His bass clarinet solo piece “Uranòs”, awarded with the first prize in 2024 by the 20th edition of the international competition “Don Vincenzo Vitti”, has been performed in Pau (France) during the Unesco Sound Week by Maestro Jean-Jacques Godron.

In July 2023, his critical-musical essay "I Miroirs and the dualistic poetics of reflection" was published by the Kimerik publishing house.

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© 2022 by Marco Zàppia

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