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Marco Zambelli was born in Genoa and completed his musical Studies (organ, harpsichord and chamber music) at the ‘N. Paganini’ Conservatory of his home town. In 1986 he received the Premier Prix de Virtuositè at the ‘Conservatoire Superieur’ in Geneva under the guidance of Lionel Rogg. In the same year he won the Second Prize at the Kaltern International Organ Competition. The interest he always showed for Choral and Vocal Music, led him to a radical change of career in 1988: first, he was appointed Chorus Master of the Grasse (F) Boys Choir, then of the Lyon Opera Chorus until 1992. In that Theatre he has also been Head of Music until 1994.
At that point, his now blossoming interest for conducting resulted in numerous Concerts of Sacred Music with the Orchestra and Choir of the Opera. Further inspiration came from assisting such eminent Maestros as M. Arena, E. Krivine, B. Campanella, N. Marriner and J. E. Gardiner.
His collaboration with Lyon Opera and with J. E. Gardiner, led to his participation in numerous prestigious recordings: Béatrice et Bénédict and Roméo et Juliètte, Les Dialogues des Carmélites, Busoni’s Turandot, Don Giovanni and Die Zauberflote, among others.
As a conductor, Marco Zambelli made his debut in Messina in 1994 with a double bill: Paisiello’s Serva padrona and Cimarosa’s Il Maestro di Cappella. This was followed by many other engagements, such as Don Giovanni and Così fan tutte, Haydn’s Schöpfung, Il Barbiere di Siviglia and Cenerentola, Lucia di Lammermoor and Don Pasquale, Luisa Miller, Rigoletto and Nabucco, Madama Butterfly, Manon Lescaut and La Bohème, in venues like Opera North (Leeds), Koblenz, Opera Zuid (Maastricht), Ascoli Piceno, Cagliari, Sassari, Bologna, Dublin National Concert Hall, Grange Park Opera, Tenerife and Glyndebourne Festival, Auckland.
He also conducted at the Barbican, Bridgewater Hall, National Concert Hall in Dublin with Orchestras like BBC NOW, BBC Concert, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic and London Philharmonic.
Among his engagements: Cenerentola at the Hong Kong Art Festival, Luisa Miller and Tancredi at the Teatro San Carlo in Naples, Don Giovanni at the Opéra de Nice, concerts with Maria Bayo and Sumi Jo in Metz, Don Carlos (the 4 acts French version) at the Minnesota Opera, La Traviata for La Fenice in Venice, Tancredi in Piacenza, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Parma and Ferrara (recorded live by Bongiovanni) and in concert at the Montecarlo Opera, where he returned for the opening of the 2004/2005 season with La Pietra del Paragone, Norma in Cincinnati, concerts with the Orchestra of the Teatro Regio in Turin and the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, Lucia di Lammermoor in Nice, a concert with Annick Massis at the Salle Gaveau in Paris, a recording of two CDs in Prague with Gregory Kunde, Il Turco in Italia in Las Palmas, a concert with the BBC National Orchestra of Wales and Julian Lloyd Webber, broadcast live and video-recorded for Tv.
After the opening of the Israeli Opera's 2005 Season with Pagliacci, he conducted Maria Stuarda in Las Palmas, a concert tour with Rolando Villazon (Théátre des Champs Élysées in Paris, Gewandhaus in Lepzig, Philharmonie in Berlin, Alte Oper in Frankfurt and Smetana Hall in Prague, Munich, Copenhagen and Koln), Italiana in Algeri and Turandot at the Opéra de Toulon, Andrea Chénier in Lièges, Manon Lescaut in Prague, La Traviata, Aida and Turandot in Seoul directed by Pier Luigi Pizzi, Così fan tutte in Parma, Lucia di Lammermoor in Las Palmas, Rigoletto in Antibes, La Favorite in Bergamo, Balfe’s Falstaff in Dublin.
Among his future engagements: Tosca in Las Palmas, Manon Lescaut in Dublin, Maria Padilla in Bergamo, a concert with Rolando Villazon, I Puritani in Athens, Caterina Cornaro in Amsterdam.
