Sei solo I
Marco Graziani, violin
Johann Sebastian Bach
Johann Sebastian Bach: BWV 1001, 1002, 1003
Marco Graziani(Rijeka, 1988) started to take violin classes at the age of seven with Prof. Krunoslav Peljhan at Ivan Matetić Ronjgov Music School in Rijeka, and since year 2000 he has worked with Prof. Leonid Sorokow, in whose class he graduated at Zagreb Music Academy in 2010, obtaining the Master of Music degree. In the same year he was admitted as a Research Assistant at the Zagreb Music Academy, where he has been working as Assistant Professor since 2016. He has been the concertmaster of the Zadar Chamber Orchestra since 2011, and from 2012 to 2016 he was the concertmaster of the orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre in Zagreb.
Since 1999 he has attended numerous summer and winter seminars in Croatia, Austria, Italy, and Japan, led by professors Dora Schwarzberg, Marina and Leonid Sorokow, Alexander Vinnitzky, Pavel Vernikov, Pinchas Zukerman, Viktor Tretyakov, Gerhard Schulz and Zakhar Bron. He has attended summer seminars in Siena, at Accademia Chigiana and, thanks to Stauffer Foundation, he has attended monthly masterclasses held by the renowned Italian violinist Salvatore Accardo in Cremona.
As a soloist and member of numerous chamber ensembles he has appeared in many national and international competitions where he has achieved distinguished results. He has won multiple first prizes in Croatian competitions of music and dance students, such competitions as Ivan Zajc’s Days, Etudes and Scales, the European competition Alfredo and Wanda Marcosig in Gorizia (Italy), the Grand Prix of the Lions Club Rijeka, and the competition Istria Nobilissima, where besides the first prize, he also won the special prize – a recording of a CD in Trieste (accompanied by the renowned Armenian pianist Ruben Dalibaltayan).
He has won great international competitions in Lisbon, Moscow, Astana, and Vienna. He was proclaimed the most successful young musician of 2006 and he won the Zagreb Philharmonic Award and PBZ Card Award. He received the national Stjepan Šulek Award for the best violinist performance in 2005 and 2006, for the performance of Violin Concerto No. 1 by S. Prokofiev. In 2007 he was awarded the annual City of Rijeka Award for extraordinary concert, artistic, and competitive achievements in Croatia and abroad. He received the Ivo Vuljević Award for his comprehensive artistic work in 2014.
He has had successful appearances as soloist, in chamber ensembles, and orchestras in Croatia, Austria, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Italy, the Netherlands, Lithuania, Germany, Portugal, Poland, Japan, and Russia. He has appeared as soloist with the Slovene Philharmonic, Lisbon Festival Symphony Orchestra, Kaunas Philharmonic, Vojvodina Symphony Orchestra, Zagreb Philharmonic, Croatian Radio-Television Symphony Orchestra, Opera Orchestra of the Ivan pl. Zajc Croatian National Theatre in Rijeka, Opera Orchestra of the Croatian National Theatre in Split, Zagreb Soloists, as well as with Croatian, Split, Zadar, and Varaždin Chamber Orchestras.
In 2009, he recorded his second album in collaboration with cellist Stjepan Hauser, with a selection of pieces by Bach, Kodaly, Sollima, and Händel/Halvorsen. In 2011, he founded the Croatian String Quartet, which has had numerous acclaimed appearances, and in 2014 he won Darko Lukić Competition in Zagreb. In 2012, he won the first prize at the first Papandopulo, the Croatian competition of young musical artists. Two years later, he received the Judita Award at the Split Summer Festival, for his performance of Violin Concerto in D major by P. I. Tchaikovsky.