Marius Bartoccini

Marius Bartoccini
Marius Bartoccini studied piano with Maria Grazia Cabai at the Conservatory “Jacopo Tomadini” in Udine, finishing the Bachelor with the highest marks.

He also took a Master in pianoforte with the publication of his thesis “The Evolution of Chordophones with Keyboards, from the Pythagorean Monochord to the Modern Pianoforte”, graduating cum laude with the maximum number of votes. He also obtained a diploma in conducting, instrumentation and composition for wind orchestra. He won third prize in the first edition of the Fortepiano Competition of the City of Albenga. He took masterclasses with renowned teachers of fortepiano such as Stefania Neonato, Ilario Gregoletto and Leo van Doesellar, in harpsichord with Enrico Baiano and Roberto Loreggian, piano, choral and orchestral conducting, composition, and chamber vocal music. As a fortepianist, harpsichordist, pianist and conductor he has taken part in various concert seasons and renowned national and international festivals in Italy, Slovenia, Austria, the Czech Republic, Germany and Portugal, a total of around 500 concerts. He has collaborated with famous conductors such as Sigiswald Kuijken and Federico Maria Sardelli. He has appeared playing original instruments, such as the fortepianos of Longman & Broderip (1786 and 1789), Schantz (1795, 1804 and 1825), F. Samisch (1830), John Watlin (1810), Luigi Rasori (1832) and Johann Haselmann (1810), on prestigious copies as well as instruments in his own possession. In 2018 he was invited by the University of Evora (Portugal) to hold a masterclass on classical and pre-romantic repertoire for piano students, which was followed by the Masterclass at the Conservatory of Matera (2019), at the Conservatory “G. Lettimi” in Rimini (2022) and the conference on embellishments in keyboard music “Ancient decorations or expressive means?” always in the Conservatory of Matera (2022).
He recorded the world premiere of the complete music for two and four hands fortepiano by František Xaver Dušek, in a five-CD box set, released in February 2021 by Brilliant Classics.
He subsequently performed Dušek's complete works for fortepiano for the first time in modern times in a series of concerts held for the Karl Jenkins Association in Rome.
Also in a world premiere for Brilliant Classics, he recorded together with Ilario Gregoletto, the complete compositions for fortepiano four hands by Leopold Antonín Koželuh, a project presented in February 2022.
October 2022 saw the release of the new recording project for Urania Records, dedicated to the anonymous sonatas composed in Venice in the late Eighteenth century and performed with an original instrument built by Luigi Hoffer, also in Venice, in the same period as the music proposed.
In October 2022 he signed a contract with the Historical Museum and Park of Miramare Castle as maintainer and conservator of the J. Wopaterni fortepiano that belonged to Charlotte of Belgium, wife of Maximilian I of Mexico.
Since December 2023 he has been teaching Lettura della Partitura at the Conservatory “Domenico Cimarosa” in Avellino