Leonardo De Marchi

Leonardo De Marchi is a concert guitarist whose work is devoted particularly to recent guitar repertoire. He obtained master’s degrees with honours in guitar at the conservatoires of Venice, Novara and Pavia, and attended advanced courses at the Giulio Regondi Academy in Milan. He also holds a bachelor’s degree with honours in German and Slavic studies from Ca’ Foscari University in Venice.

He won first prizes at the competitions in Musile in 2008 as a chamber musician and in 2009 as a soloist, in Piombino in 2009, and in Treviso in 2014 as a chamber musician. He has performed in Italy and abroad, and his recordings include Bach and Haydn for Two Guitars for DotGuitar, Sergio Sorrentino’s Quattordici studi sulla creatività for Sinfonica, and Enantiosemie for Da Vinci Classics. He also participated in Parade, devoted to guitar works by Giorgio Colombo Taccani, for GuitArt.

His editorial work includes A. Franco’s 24 Preludi e Ricercari for Ut Orpheus and Giacomo Manzoni’s Dedica 2015 for RAI Com. As a lecturer and musicologist, he has given masterclasses on guitar repertoire and written album notes and listening guides. His research into new musical languages led him to investigate the ten-string guitar and to expand its repertoire through collaborations with Italian composers. The first results of this work were published in Nuovi orizzonti per la chitarra a dieci corde by Viator.