Franco Mezzena

Franco Mezzena, graduated “cum laude”, studied more than 10 years with Salvatore Accardo. As a soloist he is guest of the most important Concert Halls and Festivals in Europe, Japan, South America and U.S.A. He has recently played Mendelssohn Op.64 at Carnegie Hall in New York. He has been many times on tour with "I Musici" and "I Virtuosi di Roma" and performed together with celebrated artists as Salvatore Accardo,Julius Berger, Umberto Cafagna, Bruno Canino, Edoardo Catemario, Roberto Fabbriciani, Rocco Filippini, Severino Gazzelloni, Stefano Giavazzi, Bruno Giuranna, Johannes Goritzki, Nicholas Jones, Jacques Klein, Alain Meunier, Bruno Mezzena, Andrea Noferini, Anthony Pay, Franco Petracchi, Roberto Prosseda, Ruggiero Ricci, Hariolf Schlichtig, Rohan de Saram, Romeo Tudorache, etc. Concerts for: RAI Radiotelevisione Italiana, Radio Vaticana, BBC, ABC, NBC, WSKG, WGBH Boston, NHK Television Japan, KBS Corea, etc. Franco Mezzena is world famous for a lot of CDs and DVDs (more than 50) he recorded for Wide Classique, Dynamic, Symposium, Rivo Alto, Nuova Era, E.M.S. Arcobaleno. He recorded for Dynamic label, the complete concertos for violin and orchestra by G.B. Viotti (10 CDs), where he appears as soloist and conductor of the "Symphonia Perusina" and the Chamber Orchestra “Milano Classica”. He has recorded, for Wide Classique label, the complete works for Piano and Violin by L. van Beethoven with the pianist Stefano Giavazzi. Brilliant reviews and many interviews on: The Strad, Fanfare Magazine, American Record Guide, New York Times, Gramophone, Diapason, FonoForum etc. Professor at Conservatory "N. Piccinni" in Bari-Italy and also Artistic Director and founder of the Advanced Academy CMT "The City of Music and Theatre" in Penne (Pescara) Italy. He is Artistic Director of the “Music & Theatre” in Italy. He gives Master Classes in his country (Conservatory of Mantua, Conservatory of Cagliari, S. Antioco, "Musica Riva", Alghero, Naples, Messina etc.) and abroad (Royal College of Music, Trinity College of Music - London, Chetham's School of Music - Manchester, Hochschule “F. Mendelssohn-Bartholdy” - Leipzig, Conservatory of Rotterdam, Académié d'été d'Andé, Tokyo University, Osaka, Kyushu, Barcelona, Oxford University, Ticino Musica Festival etc.). He has conducted the Lublijana Symphony Orchestra, the Pescara Symphony Orchestra, the “Teatro Regio of Turin” Symphony Orchestra, the “Milano Classica” Chamber Orchestra, the “Interpreti Italiani” Chamber Orchestra, the Jalisco Philarmonic Orchestra etc. Franco is the founder and principal conductor of Viotti Chamber Orchestra and member of the Jury of Italian EUYO (European Union Youth Orchestra) Auditions since 2005. He plays a 1695 Stradivarius, an instrument by Roberto Regazzi (Bologna, 1998) a violin made by Giuseppe Arre’ (Cremona, 2009) and a violin made by Ornella Ceci (Bari 2009). Artistic Director of the Division Classical Music of WIDE SOUND Recording House (WIDE CLASSIQUE Label.