Elisa Marzorati

pianist

Creator and director of Teatro Aperitivo, she had an international education (Italy, United States, Switzerland, Spain).
Bilingual thanks to her parents (Italian - Swiss German), she also speaks fluent English, German and Spanish.
Before defining her professionalism in the artistic and musical fields, she works in various realities that allow her to gain experience in the field of office work, communication and organisation.
Eclectic pianist, thanks to her international studies and to her not just classical music education, she begins to study the piano with Giorgio Lovato at the Conservatory B. Marcello of Venice.
During 1994 she lives in the USA, where studying at the Winston Churchill High School (Potomac, MD), as a member of the school band she plays in all the school performances, among them the jazz musical Chicago. In 1999 she achieves her Diploma at the Conservatory B. Marcello of Venice, attaining the highest possible grade. She masters the study of piano technique and interpretation with Lucia Romanini in Milan (1997-1999) and Giorgio Vianello in Venice (2000-2001).
In 2001, at the Musikhochschule of Zürich, she studies chamber music with Eckart Heiligers, score arrangement and reading, Lieder repertoire, jazz and didactics. In 2002 at the same Musikhochschule she joins a Master Class by Alexander Lonquich. She receives an excellent Concert Degree for Piano Chamber Music in 2004 (Kammermusikkonzertdiplom) and in 2005 an outstanding Masters of Teaching (Lehrdiplom).
She has a B.A. in Music History Magna cum laude with a Thesis about the contemporary Italian composer Luca Mosca (2001), and a M.A. in Ethnomusicology Magna cum laude with a Thesis about the Afro-Cuban Carnival Music (2004) from the University Ca' Foscari of Venice.
Between 2005 and 2007 she joins the Taller de la música in Barcelona exploring jazz, latin jazz and improvisation.
Her continuous interest for other music styles is shown in her long lasting collaboration with the rock-country band Guido Marzorati & the Blugos, the ambient, drone, glitchy experimentations with Enrico Coniglio, and the collaborations with various Argentine Tango ensembles.
She performs with various chamber music ensembles, accompanies singers and teaches piano.
She contributed to various initiatives promoted by the Cultural Association Balancing Act, including the organisation of events, the writing of scripts and the direction for the Teatro Aperitivo shows, the presentation of cultural projects, and the creation of videos (sometimes performing as a pianist, other times being the video maker, by finding images and atmospheres that best suit to the music) for the youtube channel of the Association https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCJv7yfCSNYaGl1dLbda5YcQ/playlists, among which the Playlist of videos created to promote the music of the contemporary composer Luca Mosca stands out.