Gabriele Mazzon was born in Padua in 1995. He graduated with highest honors from the Conservatorio “A. Steffani” Conservatory in Castelfranco Veneto, where he also won the ‘Zambon’ prize in 2017 as best student.
Settled in Belgium since 2017, he graduates between 2019 and 2021 with the “Master en violon” and the “Master spécialisé en violon” with Great Distinction, studying at the Conservatoire Royal de Mons Arts 2 and the Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles Conservatoire Royal de Bruxelles in the classes of Shirly Laub, Eliot Lawson, Wibert Aerts and Frederic d’Ursel.
During his training, Gabriele also studied with Ilya Grubert and Stefano Pagliani at the Fondazione Musicale Santa Cecilia in Italy, Elina Vahala at the Hochschule Fur Musik Karlsruhe and took masterclasses with Elisabeth Perry, Ivry Gitlis, Igor Volochine, Vineta Sareika, Kati Sebestyén, Chouchane Sironossian and Nana Kawamura and chamber music courses with Muhiddin Dürrüoğlu, Enrico Bronzi and Filippo Faes.
He has collaborated with several orchestras: in Belgium, the Orchestre philharmonique de Flandre and the Boho Strings Orchestra in Antwerp, the Ataneres Ensemble in Leuven, the Chapelle musicale de Tournai in Tournai, the Assai Symphonia in Hasselt; in Italy, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto OPV in Padua, the Orchestra d’archi Italiani ODAI and the Orchestra del Teatro Olimpico OTO in Vicenza; in Germany, with the Mannheimer Philarmoniker.
Since 2022, he has been assistant violinist with the Orchestre national de Belgique, the Orchestra della Fondazione Teatro Lirico Giuseppe Verdi in Trieste and the Sinfonieorchester Aachen.
Passionate about historical music from an early age, he has been studying baroque violin since 2022 with Joanna Huszcza, Ryo Terakado, Elisa Citterio, Mira Glodeanu, Giorgio Fava and Benoit Douchy.
In 2023, he obtained a Bachelor cum Laude in Baroque violin at the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel. His career on baroque violin is already highly reputed: since 2023, he has collaborated with Belgium’s leading historical music groups, the “Ensemble Il Gardellino”, and Portugal’s “Ensemble Divino Sospiro”.
Since 2018, he has been heavily involved in chamber music repertoire, playing with pianists Julien Lejeune and Marco Mantovani. Focusing on the Franco-Belgian and Italian repertoires of the early 20th century (Busoni, Fano, Dallapiccola, Respighi), he has performed at the Arsonic in Mons, the Atelier Marcel Hastir and Art Base in Brussels, as well as at the Academia Belgica at the Villa Borghese in Rome.
Gabriele also studied history and musicology at the University of Padua.
Languages : FR – EN – ES – IT
