Andrea Chezzi

Andrea Chezzi
Andrea Chezzi
Born in Colorno (Parma), Andrea Chezzi began his musical studies under the guidance of his uncle Lino Chezzi, an orchestral musician at Milan’s Teatro alla Scala.

He graduated in Organ and Organ Composition, Harpsichord, and Composition at the “A. Boito” Conservatoire of Parma, before pursuing advanced harpsichord studies in the Netherlands with Bob van Asperen at the Amsterdamse Hogeschool voor de Kunsten. Alongside his musical training, he devoted himself to the humanities, obtaining a degree in Modern Literature from the University of Parma with first-class honours cum laude, with a thesis on musical life at the ducal court of Parma at the end of the eighteenth century.

He has attended courses on historical performance practice with eminent musicians including Luigi Ferdinando Tagliavini, Hans van de Pol, Glen Wilson Stembridge, John Butt Murray, Andrea Marcon, and at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana in Siena with Christophe Rousset. Chezzi carries out an intense concert activity on both harpsichord and organ, performing as a soloist and in chamber ensembles, and has appeared at numerous early music festivals throughout Italy, invited by leading cultural institutions and associations. As soloist with orchestra, he has performed concertos by J. S. Bach, J. C. Bach, Handel, and Haydn.

His discography includes recordings on restored historical organs: Montesanti (1813) in Acquanegra sul Chiese (Mantua) for MV Cremona; Benedetti (1765) in Brescello (Reggio Emilia) for Fugatto (Metz, France); and Boschini (1755) in Brugneto (Reggio Emilia) for Brilliant Classics. These recordings have received high critical acclaim, including Suonare News, “5 Stelle Amadeus,” and “5 Stelle Choir & Organ.” In 2013, he was selected by the Dutch label Brilliant Classics as harpsichordist for the Carl Philipp Emanuel Bach Edition, produced on the occasion of the composer’s tricentenary. For the same label he has also recorded a CD of Domenico Cimarosa’s Sonatas on the organ, as well as Baldassare Galuppi’s Sonate op. 1 for harpsichord (awarded “5 Stelle MusicVoice”). His CDs have been featured on the programme Primo Movimento on Rai Radio 3. As a harpsichordist, he has also appeared on the Rai 1 programme Linea Verde from Fontanellato (Parma), where he later recorded for Urania Records a CD devoted to Bernardo Pasquini, performed on a seventeenth-century anonymous Italian harpsichord preserved in the Rocca Sanvitale.