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The Italian conductor and organist, Francesco Saverio Pedrini, was brn into an artistic family, and he studied piano with his mother and counterpoint with his father from a young age. He obtained his Organ diploma in Parma with Francesco Tasini. and had Postgraduate studies with Andrea Marcon and J.-C. Zehnder at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. He attended master-classes and further studies with: Michael Radulescu, L.F. Tagliavini, C. Stembridge, L. Tamminga (Organ); Alfonso Fedi, Elisabeth Joyé (Harpsichord); Rudolf Lutz (Improvisation). He was Prize-winner in International Organ Competitions in Bruges and Borca di Cadore (Italy).
Francesco Saverio Pedrini performs as soloist and as chamber musician with different ensembles and orchestras, collaborating among the others with Kammerorchester Basel (Director: Julia Schröder), L'Onda Armonica,
L'Aura Soave, Le Parlement de Musique (Director: Martin Gester), I Virtuosi delle Muse, Eric Ericson Chamber Choir, Tölzer Knabenchor, Giovanni Antonini, Martin Gester, Paul McCreesh, Paul Goodwin, Giuliano Carmignola, Sergio Azzolini...
Since 2007 Francesco Saverio Pedrini has been correpetiteur of the Opera Class at the Schola Cantorum Basiliensis. In 2006 he founded the Festival Internazionale Organistico della Città di Parma. He is artistic director and founder of the project ‘Le Capitali della Musica’, a concert cycle of Italian Baroque music in Zürich.
Francesco Saverio Pedrini has recorded for Naïve, Claves, Divox Antiqua, Carus, Tactus, Amadeus, Sony, Arcana. |
