Marco Battaglia

 

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Marco Battaglia was born in 1969 in Milan where he finished his high school studies in the classics and went on to study law and philosophy at the State University. His early musical training on guitar took place at the Civica Scuola di Musica under the guidance of Vittorio Casagrande. In 1995, he graduated from the Conservatory and went on to specialize in the interpretation of 19th century music paying close attention to matters of performance practice. He participated in several courses using original 19th century instruments. Among the many internationally renowned performers and educators that influenced his musical background the following can be cited: O. Ghiglia, R. Chiesa, P. O’Brien, C. Wilson and D. Russell. He has an active performing career in Italy and abroad, both as a soloist and with orchestras, as well as a teacher, lecturer and researcher. In 1998, he debuted with success at “Carlo Felice” Theatre in Genoa where performed (also as a duo with a violin once owned by Paganini and bought by his pupil Camillo Sivori) on a guitar that belonged to Giuseppe Mazzini, the Italian Patriot (property of the Istituto Mazziniano from the city of Genoa). As concert promoter Marco Battaglia had the guitar refurbished. The instrument’s first modern concert was played at the Fondazione Stelline of Milan and the performance was repeated several times, amongst these one in Turin (Circolo degli Artisti - Museo Nazionale del Risorgimento Italiano).The program featured music by composers quoted in Mazzini’s letters and “Philosophy of music”. His concerts have been held in hundreds of cities and by many prestigious institutions, to name a few, Paris (UNESCO Headquarters), Bonn (Sparkasse), Basel (Societa’ Dante Alighieri, Schmiedenhof…), Lausanne, Bern, Biel (Neuhaus Museum), Luzern, Aarau, Neuchâtel (Centre des Terreaux), Olten, Locarno (Palazzo Borghese), and Milan (over 60 concerts for Museo Teatrale alla Scala, Castello Sforzesco, Societa’ Umanitaria, Civiche Raccolte Storiche...) also in Monza (Teatro della Villa Reale), and the International Festivals in Varese and Vigevano, Magenta, Campione, Genoa (Museo del Risorgimento, Biblioteca Berio...), “ChitarraImperia” Spring Festival and Seminars, Festival Carniarmonie, Salsomaggiore (Terme Berzieri), Carrara (Teatro degli Animosi), Florence (Festival “Il suono dell’anima”), Forte dei Marmi, Isola del Giglio, Sagra Musicale Umbra International Festival, Spoleto (“Estate Spoletina”), Rome (Palazzo Barberini), Fiuggi (Teatro delle Fonti), Reggio Calabria (Accademia di Belle Arti, Piazza del Duomo), Messina (Filarmonica Laudamo, Teatro Savio), Taormina (Palazzo dei Duchi di Santo Stefano), Tempio Pausania (Sassari). In 2001, he was the artistic director for the concert series “Concerti per gli angeli” at San Angelo’s church in Milan. Pizzicato Verlag Helvetia has published his revisions. Specialized magazines, such as, ‘The Classic Voice’ and some of the most important newspapers in Italy have written about him, to name a few, ‘Corriere della Sera’ and ‘La Stampa’. Paolo Gallarati of ‘La Stampa’ wrote “Battaglia performs with grace and taste, plays with the subtitles…; …the pages… that Marco Battaglia performed wonderfully, creating clinking resonances on the instrument during the Aries “Italiana in Algeri,” of “Otello” and of “Armida” with taste for an intimate sound, almost secret”. He has carried out interviews and recorded his interpretations for private European radio and for R.A.I. television and radio, some nationally transmitted live. A plethora of concert invitations and master classes from 2004 will bring Mr. Battaglia to Italy (Pavia (Teatro Fraschini), Mantoa (Conservatory), Novara (Teatro Coccia), Milan, Genoa (Paganini International Congress), Busseto (Sala Barezzi), Cagliari (Conservatory)...). Switzerland (Aarau, Freiburg, Basel, Luzern, Thun, Winterthur, Biel…), Germany, France, Greece (Athens, Volos…), Slovenia and Australia (Canberra, Melbourne, Sydney…).