Marco Zambelli

Marco Zambelli was born in Genoa in 1960. Has read Classical letters (Humanities) and started the piano practice at the age of 7. He completed his Organ curriculum with a Diploma at the Conservatorio “Paganini” in 1983 and was awarded a Premier Prix de Virtuosité in the class of Lionel Rogg in Geneva in 1986. The same year, he won the 2nd Prize at the Orgelwettbewerb in Kaltern. He has played chamber music, accompanied instrumentalists and singers and given numerous solo recitals until 1988. In 1989 he became Chorus Master at the Opéra de Lyon and had the chance (and the pleasure) to be chosen by eminent Maestros, like M. Arena, B. Campanella, E. Krivine, N. Marriner and J.E. Gardiner, to be their Assistant. Suddenly, conducting looked like the “natural” development to all these diverse