Marco Gironi

He specialized with Hansjörg Schellenberger at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and attended Pietro Borgonovo's courses at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, He then further deepened his study of the oboistic and orchestral repertoire also with Carlo Romano and Paolo Pollastri. A winner of numerous auditions, he has collaborated from a very young age with some of Italy's leading orchestras (RAI orchestras of Rome and Turin, ORT-Orchestra della Toscana, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Orchestra Filarmonia Veneta, Orchestra del Teatro La Fenice in Venice). In 1995 he won the competition at the Grande Orchestra Sinfonica "G. Verdi" in Milan, holding the position of First Oboe there for two years. From 1997 to 2020 he was First Oboe at the Orchestra of the Gran Teatro La Fenice in Venice, with which he performed several times also as soloist, in pieces by Maderna, Marcello, Mozart, Haydn, Bach and Strauss. He has participated in various tours in Spain, Japan, China, Denmark and the United Arab Emirates. He has played under the guidance of the most prestigious batons, including conductors G. Prêtre, W.Sawallisch, R.Muti, G.Noseda, M.W.Chung, D.Oren, V.Gergiev, M.Viotti, Sir J.E.Gardiner, J.Tate, D.Kitaenko, Y.Temirkanov, E.Inbal, L.Maazel, R.Chailly. Parallel to orchestral activity, he devotes himself to chamber music in various formations, from duo with piano, trio, wind quintet, and octet. He also collaborates with important Italian and foreign orchestral ensembles, also as a soloist, including "I Solisti Veneti" and "Les Musiciens du Louvre." Also very active in the teaching field, from 2015 to 2021 he collaborated with the Conservatory of Padua as an oboe teacher for academic courses, held oboe Masterclasses at the Conservatories of Bologna, Lucca and Pescara, at the Istituto Musicale G. A. Fano in Spilimbergo and at the Dorelab Festival in Palmanova. Since 2019, he has been a tenured oboe teacher first at the Conservatory of La Spezia, then at Pedrollo in Vicenza. He currently holds the chair of oboe at the Steffani Conservatory in Castelfranco Veneto. He recently collaborated as First Oboe with the Orchestra of Teatro alla Scala in Milan and with the Philharmonic of the same name. He has to his credit recordings for BMG, Materiali Sonori, Ricordi and Dynamic.