Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi

Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi: Mario Stefano Pietrodarchi, born in Atessa in 1980, undertook the study of accordion at the age of nine and later studied also bandoneon.

From 1993 to 2001 he attended the courses of M° C. Calista and later of M° C. Chiacchiaretta at the F. Fenaroli Civic Musical School in Lanciano, graduating in 2007 with Honors at the Conservatory of S. Cecilia in Rome. He attended master classes in Italy and abroad with J. Mornet, W. Zubitsky, A. L. Castano, C. Rossi, Y. Shishkin. Brilliant performer and refined musician, he has won numerous national and international competitions and has played in very important venues alongside artists such as Andrea Bocelli, Antonella Ruggiero, Angela Gheorghiu, Andrea Griminelli, Erwin Schrott, Anna Netrebko, Giorgio Albertazzi and many others. He aims at developing a new repertoire with a purely Mediterranean taste and timbre for Accordion-Bandoneon and Orchestra; so he enlisted the cooperation of important composers such as Roberto Molinelli, Andrea Scarpone, Fabio Conocchiella, Umberto Scipione, Raffaele Bellafronte, Enrico Blatti, Giancarlo Facchinetti, Domenico Giannetta and Cristian Carrara. From 2018 he began a close collaboration with violinist Andres Gabetta and the Baroque ensemble "Cappella Gabetta". After countless concerts around the world, in 2019 Sony issued their album entitled "Tango Seasons" with Music by Vivaldi and Piazzolla arranged by Roberto Molinelli. In addition to his impressive concert activity on the Italian territory, he has performed in England, France, Belgium, Croatia, Serbia, Germany, the United States, Poland, Portugal, Finland, Switzerland, Hungary, Canada, Australia, Denmark, Georgia, Lebanon, Armenia, Bahrain, Russia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Belarus and China.