Marco Antonio Mazzini
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Marco Antonio Mazzini was born in Lima, Peru and began studying music with his father at age 5. He later continued studies at the National Conservatory of Peru and received his undergraduate diploma in 1998 studying under Clarinetist, Ana Barrera. In 1999 he moved to Belgium to study with Eddy Vanoosthuyse at the Royal Conservatory of Ghent, where he has received his master degree in clarinet, chamber music and improvisation.
Complimenting his studies, Marco Antonio has appeared as a soloist with the Lima Philharmonic Orchestra, the National Symphony Orchestra of Peru and the Orchestra of Trujillo. Additionally he has performed in many important concerts halls in Lima, Arequipa, Trujillo and Cuzco, as well as in Colombia, Belgium, Holland, France, Japan, Luxembourg, Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland, Italy, Austria, USA and Germany.
As a founding member of the Thelema Trio, a rather unique ensemble dedicated to the performance and promotion of new music, he plays a variety of chamber works written for not only the traditional clarinet, but also bass clarinet and contrabass clarinet.
In March of 2004 he was invited to record the music of Vincent d'Hondt on the sound track for "La Femme de Gilles", a Belgian production by film maker Frédéric Fonteyne.
In addittion to his musical endeavours, Marco Antonio is the director of Clariperu, a Spanish-language website dedicated to the clarinet.
Marco Antonio is a BG France and Gonzalez Reeds artist.
Videos
» Serie "Music From South American Composers"
» Serie "Peruvian Music"
» Serie Rok Clarinet Quartet
» Serie Clarinet Techniques (only in Spanish!)
About "Football on TV":
I was inspired by watching the short replays of football fouls and accidents, where you see a man flying in the air and landing in pain. All that happens in a few seconds, but the TV shows us the same image in slow motion, often very, very slowly and from every different angle. We can really enjoy every single detail, and discover many others. My short piece starts with a pattern built in 3 semitone groups (the last one repeated): F/E - B/C - Eb/D. What I did is just to show you those notes in slow motion, so every time I repeat that pattern, you can enjoy every note and then hear what is between a semitone: first one note, two, etc. At the end, I add up to 5 tones between each semitone, creating an acoustic 'delay' effect. To end the piece, I mix all the groups and the original pattern comes back but with distortion, because after watching the TV fouls in slow motion, the original image will never be the same in your mind. This miniature is part of my "Internet music" project, pieces made for the net and not for live performance.
