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Alessandro Mazzacane – Cello

Born in Bari in 1990, at an early age he became passionate about music thanks to his father, who gave him his first lessons. He graduated from the Conservatory “N. Piccinni” in Bari with V. Paternoster, he continued his studies with Altenberg Trio, Quartetto Artemis, A. Farulli and F. Helmerson.
In 2018 he embarked on conducting under the guidance of Y. Sugiyama. Active in numerous festivals, he collaborates with, among others, the Fondazione Toscanini, the baroque ensemble L’Aura Soave, the CappellaFastiDiametro, the Petruzzelli Theater Orchestra, and as first part in the Orchestra and Ensemble of the Società dei Concerti, the Orchestra of the “V. Emanuele” Theater of Messina and the Luglio Musicale Trapanese. Since 2012 he has been a member of the group Os Argonautas, with which he won the prestigious Musicultura competition; from 2014 to 2016 he was a member of the Mitja Quartet, with which, after an intense concert activity, he recorded two quartets by Malipiero for Tactus; since 2016 he collaborates with the Soloists of the Orchestra di S. Cecilia; since 2018 he has been a member of the Milano Cello Factory and Milano Classica, while in 2019 he began the collaboration with Collettivo_21 and founded the duo Qeqetarsuaq.