Gabriele Mazzon
About
Gabriele Mazzon is an Italian violinist, born in 1995 in Padua.
He graduated in 2017 with the highest score in the Conservatory "A. Steffani" of Castelfranco Veneto in Italy with M° Michele Lot and then in 2019 obtained with Grand Distinction his violin master exspecialisè in “Conservatoire Royal of Mons ARTS2” with Eliot Lawson. He is currently studying in the “Conservatoire Royal of Brussels” with Shirly Laub and Frédéric d’Ursel.
He also studied with Ilya Grubert in “Accademia Musicale Santa Cecilia” in Italy and attended Masterclasses with Ivry Gitlis, Elina Vahala (Wien Univerity of Music) Elisabeth Perry (Utrecht Conservatory), Wibert Aerst (Mons - Gent Conservatory), Vicente Anton, Igor Volochine (Paris Ecole Normale), Vineta Sareika. He studied chamber music with Domenico Nordio, Filippo Feas (first prize in Schubert piano Competition), Daniel Rubinstein, Luc Dewez.
Prize winner in many competitions like the Italian National Competition of “Castiglione delle Stiviere" and the International Competition “Città di Treviso”. In 2017 he won the scholarship entitled to "D. Zambon" from the Conservatory of Castelfranco Vto.
In 2016 he won the audition and played like first violin of the “Orchestra Nazionale dei Conservatori Italiani” (ONCI) with M° Bruno Aprea. In 2018 he won the audition for the “Jeugd Antwerp Simphony Orchestra” (ASO) and for “Nationaal Jeugd Orkest” (NJO); and in the same period he was selected like sobstitute for “European Union Youth Orchestra” (EUYO).
From 2018 he plays regularly with many orchestras: “Ataneres Ensemble” in Leuven (Belgium), "Boho Strings Orchestra" in Antwerp (Belgium), “Chapelle Musicale de Tournai” in Tournai (Belgium), “Assai Symphonia” (Asselth).
He collaborated with several orchestras in Italy, “Ymeo” in Ravenna, such as "Venice Chamber Orchestra" like leader of second violin, "Filarmonia Veneta", “L’Offerta Musicale”, like conzertmaster in “Orchestra Giacomo Facco” and “NovArtBaroqueEnsemble”, important ensemble in Venice for the Baroque music. He played also with "Orchestra d’archi Italiana" directed by M° Enrico Bronzi.
In 2018 he founded with Julien Lejeune (pianist) the "Arethruse duo" and they recently played a recital in Villa Borghese in Rome for a prize from the Atrs2 Mons Conservatoire. In 2019 he founded the “Ensemble Hellens” a project dedicated to Belgian music.
He studied in the University of Padova in the faculty of History and Musicology.
During my experience, I had the opportunity to study with famous teachers (Ilya Grubert, Shirly Laub, Eliot Lawson, Wibert Aerts, Frederic d'Ursel, Stefano Pagliani, Vineta Sareika, Elisabeth Perry) with whom I was able to discover different violin techniques and different pedagogical approaches, which allowed me to create my own methodology. If Italy gave me the passion of sharing and communication (a typical Italian characteristic), Belgium taught me to convey a message, an idea in a concrete way. My meeting with Mr Lawson in particular also made me aware of the importance in the life of an artist to share his knowledge, and teaching is for me the best way to put this sharing into practice.
Each student is different, and I don't have only one method for all of them. I try to listen and to understand which difficulties the student has. Important is the posture and the technic but even sound and musicality: you have always to transmit something, even with a simple scale.
Kreutzer, Schradieck, Gilels Scales, Dounis,