Profile of Richardo Zamuner

RICCARDO ZAMUNER, aged 27, is a Neapolitan violinist. He graduated both after his diploma and his masters at San Pietro a Majella Conservatoire with highest honours and special mention. He obtained, with full marks, the high specialization diploma in violin with Maestro Sonig Tchakerian at the National Academy of Santa Cecilia in Rome and the Master of Arts in Music Performance at the Lugano Conservatory, in the class of Maestro Pavel Berman. Since 2017 he has been attending the prestigious Stauffer Academy of High Specialization in Cremona in the class of Maestro Salvatore Accardo. He also obtained the master's degree in viola with honour and special mention at the San Pietro a Majella Conservatory in Naples. He was the winner of several national competitions. In 2013 he received the "Civicrazia Napoli for excellence" award for the Music section. He also received the prize “Oltre l'Orizzonte” from Association “Alumni of San Pietro a Majella Conservatoire” and the prize Jacopo Napoli. In 2019 he won the absolute 1st prize at Crescendo Competition in Florence In February 2020 he won the Certamen Musica string section promoted by the Fondazione Circolo Artistico Politecnico of Naples. Despite his very young age he has been performing a lot of recital, both in chamber music duo with the piano and as a soloist with relevant Orchestras, playing in different countries like Spain, Germany, Romania, Kazakistan, frequently receiving a great feedback from the audience and musical critic. In June 2016 he had his debut as soloist with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra performing Vivaldi's concerto for two violins and orchestra in duo with the famous violinist Aiman Mussakhajayeva In march 2017 he also performed as a soloist playing Mozart's 3rd violin concerto with Philharmonic Orchestra of Arad (Romania), being invited after a year in november 2018 to perform Mendelssohn’s violin concerto. In February 2018 he debuted in Kazakhstan with the State Orchestra Academy of Solist of Astana playing Sibelius's violin concerto and invited again in 2019 to perform Bruch's violin concerto. In July 2018 he also played as soloist with Magna Grecia Symphonic Orchestra during the Valle d'Itria Festival at Palazzo Ducale in Martina Franca, Matera and Taranto under the baton of Orazio Sciortino and Mayana Ishizaki. In August 2019 he performed in string trio with Bruno Giuranna and the cellist Crhistine J.Lee, playing a transcription by Giuranna himself of Bach's Goldberg Variations at Chigiana Academy in Siena, receiving also a Honour Diploma by Giuranna and Accardo. In October 2019 he performed as a soloist with the Milli Reasurans Chamber Orchestra in Istanbul performing the 4 Stagioni di Piazzolla and the Violintango Concerto by the living composer Melani Mestre.
In August 2021 he played the quintet from Castelnuovo Tedesco in quintet with Maestro Salvatore Accardo, Francesco Fiore, Cecilia Radic and Stefania Redaelli for the Accademia Chigiana in Siena. In September 2021 he was invited to play Bach's Brandenburg Concerto No. 3 with Maestro Salvatore Accardo, Francesca Dego, Bruno Giuranna, Franco Petracchi on the occasion of the inauguration of the new Stauffer Center of Strings in Cremona. Recently he has held solo violin concerts at the Cremona violin museum playing Guarneri and Stradivari instruments. He also plays in various chamber ensembles and has collaborated with Bruno Canino, Salvatore Accardo, Mario Brunello, David Geringas, Sonig Tchakerian, Bruno Giuranna, Franco Petracchi.

In spring 2021 he recorded his first CD in duo with pianist Emanuele Delucchi for CIDIM and SUONARE RECORDS, released as an attachment to the magazine SUONARE NEWS of April 2021. He regularly collaborates with Salvatore Accardo’s "Orchestra da Camera Italiana" and has collaborated with the orchestra "I Solisti Aquilani". He recently collaborated with the National Academy of Santa Cecilia Orchestra and, as a concertino for the first violins, with the Orchestra of the Teatro dell’Opera in Rome. He is the creator and first violin of the dormitory “I Virtuosi di Sansevero" which made its debut at the 2017 Christmas concert in Cappella Sansevero. He is a violin teacher at the Gesualdo da Venosa Conservatory in Potenza. He plays on a Marino Capicchioni of 1956.