On the occasion of the visit to Northern Ireland of the Italian Ambassador to the UK, H.E. Inigo Lambertini, the Consulate General of Italy for Scotland and Northern Ireland, with the support of the Italian Institute of Culture in Edinburgh, are pleased to invite the Italian community to a reception on Monday 13th February 2023 at 18:30 at the Council Chamber of Queen’s University in Belfast.
A concert performed by violinist Laura Marzadori will mark the event.
BY INVITATION ONLY.
LAURA MARZADORI
Laura Marzadori joined the Scala Theatre Orchestra as leader violin in 2014, at just 25 years. Before taking up this position she played only as a soloist and as a chamber music violinist, never in an orchestra. However, the commission members with Daniel Barenboim as its president, unanimously elected her as the Concertmaster. In this role she has already worked with some of the greatest conductors in the world: Barenboim, Chailly, Gatti, Harding and Pappano.
She began studying the violin at four, studied at age 10 for one year with Professor Enzo Porta, great violinist and pedagogue, before entering the Conservatorio G. B. Martini in Bologna from where she graduates magna cum laude in October 2005. She studied with Professors Salvatore Accardo, Zakhar Bron, and violinists Shlomo Mintz and Pavel Berman.
In September 2015 she had the great honour to perform on “Il Cannone” during a special event of Milano EXPO.
In 2005 she won the prestigious “Città di Vittorio Veneto” contest as well as the special mention Gulli Prize for the best Mozart execution. She is Prizewinner of the Sion (2011) and Buenos Aires Violin Competition (2012).
She is a passionate chamber musician and has collaborated with many extraordinary musicians. Recently she also started performing with her colleagues of the Scala Orchestra (watch the video below). In 2013, as a member of the AMAR piano trio with Leonora and Ludovico Armellini, she was awarded the prestigious “XXXII Premio Abbiati” dedicated to Piero Farulli, by the Italian National Association of Musics Critics.
Laura Marzadori plays the 1925 Giuseppe Fiorini violin.