CECILIA ZIANO
The Italian violinist Cecilia Ziano enjoys a versatile international career. career. Particularly appreciated for her expressive interpretations, her musicality and musicality and curiosity, she has graced stages all over the world – in various roles: as a soloist, as a passionate chamber musician and as a concertmaster in the play/direct style with numerous orchestras. As concertmaster she works with the Rotterdams Philharmonisch Orkest, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Kammerakademie Potsdam, the Munich Chamber Orchestra, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, the Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, the Concertgebouw Orkest and the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande together.
She has been principal of the Lyskamm Quartet since 2014. After studying with Heime Müller in Lübeck and at the European Chamber Music Academy (ECMA), the quartet has won numerous prizes at international international competitions: 1st prize at the ‘Possehl Competition’, 2nd prize and a special prize at the special prize at the ‘Schubert and the Modern Age’ competition in Graz, 1st prize at the ‘G. Bergamo’ competition in Lugano and the prestigious Borletti-Buitoni Trust Special Prize for Chamber Music 2016, dedicated to Claudio Abbado and opened up an international career for the quartet.
In 2016 the quartet was in residence with the ‘Amici della Musica di Padova’ and is now now quartet in residence in Rome for the next three years with the ‘Filarmonica Romana’, where they will perform the quartets by Beethoven (Op. 18) and Bartók. They perform regularly with the Società del Quartetto di Milano, Lingotto Musica in Turin, Musica Insieme Bologna, the Amici della Musica in Florence, the BrahmsFestival in Hamburg and ProQuartet in Paris. They were also in residence at the Aldeburgh Music Festival in the United Kingdom. Recently they gave a concert and masterclasses at the University of Oxford, Faculty of Music. They are also regular guests on Rai Radio 3 Classica. In January 2019, they released their first album dedicated to the quartets of B. Bartók is dedicated.
Cecilia is also very interested in the baroque and classical repertoire. She worked and studied with Federico Guglielmo, Lorenzo Coppola and the project Spira Mirabilis, toured Denmark with Sergio Azzolini and deepened the classical and romantic repertoire with her quartet. and romantic language with her quartet in close collaboration with Clive Brown. Brown. Cecilia’s encounters with Ferenc Rados, the Cuarteto Casals, Bruno Giuseppe Cuarteto Casals, Bruno Giuranna, Guy Braunstein, Boris Garlitzky, Eberhard Feltz and the Spira Mirabilis project.
She is supported by the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation and teaches violin violin and masterclasses at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo and at the summer course summer course ‘I Musici di Parma’ in Salsomaggiore Terme. In 2022 she debuted her solo album for KHA Records, ‘Waiting for Paganini’, featuring both baroque and modern violins. Born in a small village near Turin, she began playing the violin at the age of four with Maestro Fabrizio Pavone with the Suzuki method. She completed her studies at the Turin Conservatory with Christine Anderson, while from the age of from the age of 11 with Dora Schwarzberg and Adrian Pinzaru at the Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo from the age of 11. She completed her studies in Berlin at the Hanns Eisler Academy of Music with Kolja Blacher and in Cremona with Salvatore Accardo. She plays a ‘Sesto Rocchi’ 1971
