Andrea Marcon
Conductor
© Marco Borggreve
The Italian cembalist and organist Andrea Marcon is an acknowledged specialist for early music. He founded the Venice Baroque Orchestra in 1997, one of the leading baroque ensembles in the world. He has been running the La Cetra Baroque Orchestra Basel since 2009 and took up the post of artistic director of the Orquesta Ciudad de Granada in 2013/14. His long and successful career has taken him to leading opera houses, concert halls and festivals in Europe, the USA and Japan. Recent projects have included appearances at the Bolschoi Theatre in Moscow (Alcina), the Nationale Opera Amsterdam (Vivaldi's Juditha triumphans, Handel's Ariodante), Concertgebouw Amsterdam (Vivaldi's L’olimpiade, Vinci's Catone in Utica), Theater Basel (Alcina, Melancholia) and the Festival d’Aix-en-Provence (Alcina). Now he is back at Oper Frankfurt, where he has appeared many times before over the years, for this new production of Handel's Rodelinda. He appears regularly in concert, with orchestras including the Berlin Philharmonic, Bavarian Radio's Symphony Orchestra, the WDR, hr, NDR and Berlin radio orchestras, the Mozarteum Orchester Salzburg, Freiburg Baroque Orchestra and Concerto Köln. He has appeared as conductor and soloist on more than 50 CDs, many of which have won prizes. He studied at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis, where he is now a Professor for organ and cembalo.