Laura Marzadori joined the Scala Theatre Orchestra as leader in 2014, at just 25 years. The commission members, with Daniel Barenboim as its President, unanimously elected her as the Concertmaster. In this role she has already worked with the greatest conductors in the world: D.Barenboim, R.Chailly, D.Gatti, D.Harding, A.Pappano, G.Prêtre, M.Chung, Z.Mehta among others. In addition she gets on with her solo music activity by collaborating with great conductors and orchestras.
She began studying the violin a few months before her fourth birthday with F.Rosi, a teacher of the Suzuki method. At age 10 she studied for one year with Professor E.Porta, great violinist and pedagogue, before entering the Conservatorio G.B.Martini in Bologna from where she graduates magna cum laude in 2005. Laura also studied until the age of 17 with M. Fornaciari – for many years violin soloist of the C. Scimone ensemble “I Solisti Veneti”.
In 2004 she won the “Andrea Amati” National Contest for Young Violinists. The chairman of that jury was the famous violinist S. Accardo who took her on to his prestigious international courses at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona and at the Chigiana Academy in Siena where for two consecutive years she was awarded the Honour’s Diploma granted to the best students.
In 2006 she attended a one year masterclass with G.Carmignola, as part of the Orchestra Mozart initiatives, under artistic direction of M° Claudio Abbado.
Between the ages of 17 and 20 she studied, for three years, with the renowned violinist P.Berman at the International Academy Incontri col Maestro in Imola (Italy).
She has been studying many years with the great violinist Z.Bron and attended his violin class at the Zürcher Hochschule der Künste in Zurich for two years.
In her teens she won many prizes including the National Arts Prize (president of the jury U.Ughi),
the aforementioned “Andrea Amati” contest, the second price at the Postacchini International Competition together with the special award for the best execution of Nicolò Paganini’s Capricci.
In 2005 she won the most important national violin competition in Italy: the “Città di Vittorio Veneto” contest as well as the special mention Gulli Prize for the best Mozart execution. She has been laureated at both the Sion International Violin Competition and the Buenos Aires International Violin competition.
As a soloist she has given concerts in Italy and abroad, and played, among others, with the Symphony Orchestras of Brasov and Ukraine, the Filarmonica ArturoToscanini, the Parma Teatro Regio Orchestra, the Orchestra della Toscana, the Oregon Symphony Orchestra, the Chamber Orchestra of New York, the RAI Orchestra of Turin, the S. Cecilia Orchestra, the Pomeriggi Musicali Orchestra in Milan, the chamber orchestras of Cameristi della Scala an of Virtuosi della Scala. In 2013 she made her debut as a soloist at the Teatro alla Scala in Desyatnikov’s composition “The Russian Seasons”. In 2018, in Genoa with the Carlo Felice Orchestra conducted by D. Smith, she played Paganini violin concerto n°4 with the Guarneri del Gesù “Cannon”, 1743 violin, owned by the author. Three years before she had played the same violin invited in the frame of EXPO initiatives in Milan.
She is a passionate chamber musician: she has collaborated with such extraordinary musicians as S.Accardo, P.Berman, R.Filippini, B.Canino, A.Meneses, A.Pay, A.Lucchesini, M.Brunello, B.Giuranna – with whom she performed the Bach Goldberg variations of the string version by Bruno Giuranna- and recently also with many colleagues of the Scala Orchestra. In 2013, as a member of the AMAR piano trio with Leonora and Ludovico Armellini, she was awarded the prestigious “XXXII Premio Abbiati” dedicated to Piero Farulli, by the Italian National Association of Musics Critics. In 2018 she played Brahms Piano Quintet and Brahms Piano Trio Op8 with great pianist and conductor Myung Chung at Teatro Grande in Brescia.
In 2010 she performed the world premiere of Ottorino Respighi’s violin concerto in New York, and recorded it for the NAXOS Label. The recording, released in the USA in May 2011, was well received by critics. In
the same years, Shlomo Mintz invited her to record two violin lessons for his Online Music Academy and she also recorded a lesson with S alvatore Accardo, at the Stauffer Academy in Cremona, for the Dynamic Label.
In April 2012, she played Italian première of the Violin Concerto op. 26 by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari with the “Orchestra Città di Ferrara” conducted by Marco Zuccarini, recorded live by the TACTUS label; the CD was released in January 2013. With the same Orchestra and conductor she recorded live for Tactus the violin concerto of Leone Sinigaglia released in 2018. She also recorded two unreleased Tartini violin concertos for Amadeus Label.