Maristella Patuzzi, Fondazione Casa Anziani Giubiasco

Maristella Patuzzi was born in Lugano. At the age of four, she began playing violin and piano. Just after her eleventh birthday, she recorded Ravel's Tzigane for the Televisione della Svizzera Italiana. In 2000 Sony published her first live CD. At seventeen she was awarded the Diploma in Violin as a private student with full marks, honors and special mention at the Conservatorio Giuseppe Verdi in Milano; the same year she gained her Swiss federal matriculation at the Lugano Liceo. She studied with Susanne Holm from 1995 and with Massimo Quarta from 1997 to 2003, having been awarded a scholarship by the Pierino Ambrosoli Foundation of Zurich. In March 2005 she was admitted to Indiana University, Bloomington as a graduate student in the class of Miriam Fried, where she was awarded a scholarship for excellence. After 2006 she studied under the guidance of Mark Kaplan. In 2007, she gained a Performing Diploma with full marks and then in 2008 a Master Degree in Violin, again with the highest possible marks.
In 2011 she was received her second Master of Arts Degree in Specialized Music Performance with First Honors at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano.
From the age of five she has often played in public. At the age of ten, she gave her first concert as soloist with an orchestra in Lugano Cathedral and her first recital in Minusio (Locarno). Among others, Maristella was awarded the Premio Elisarion and the Premio Anassilaos for the "remarkable personality of her interpretation" and for the "charisma that radiates throughout her performances".
Since 2002 she has performed as soloist with the Orchestra Mozart in Milano, Padova and Veneto, with the Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana, with the Adelphi Symphony Orchestra of Long Island, New York, with the Lucerna Chamber Orchestra, with Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Philarmonia Orchestra in London and Orchestra Arturo Toscanini recording Manuel De Sica violin Concert, published in 2014 by Brilliant Classics. Since 2015, have been published 4 monographic CDs dedicated to Bloch, Paganini, Piazzolla and Schoeck by Dynamic, Decca and Brilliant Classics. In 2019, Amadeus’s Magazine, the most important classical music
She has won first prizes in competitions in Biella, Villar Perosa, Tortona, Freeze, Vittorio Veneto, the Premio Bruno Zanella in Crevalcore (Bologna), the Torneo Internazionale di Musica in Rome, the Friedl Wald Foundation Scholarship in Basel, the Premio Francesco Geminiani in Verona, the Preis der Stiftung für junge Musiktalente in Meggen, as well as other prizes for chamber music.
She has performed in many festivals: the Lake District Summer Music Festival, the Mozart Festival of Rovereto (Italy), the Festivals of Ischia and of Bologna, the Progetto Martha Argerich in Lugano, the International Rostropovich Festival in Baku and October Musical Carthage.
Her violin is a Michael Platner, Roma 1728.
www.maristellapatuzzi.com
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