Marco Conzi

Born in Genoa (Italy). He has a degree in Music History from the University of Florence and a Higher Diploma in Classical Guitar from the N. Paganini Conservatory in Genoa.

He worked for the Genoa newspaper “Il Lavoro”, in the weekly music review column, and collaborated with the monthly magazine of Art and Culture of the Municipality of Genoa, presenting the cultural events of the city. Subsequently he passed the competitive examination to become a music teacher at the Italian state school where he has worked for more than 30 years.

At the same time, he has had a long career as a concert performer. In Italy, as a “classical” guitarist, he has performed all the obligatory stages of the traditional repertoire: concerts as a soloist, as a soloist in orchestras or in “duos” (with flute players, oboists and singers), chamber music concerts and concerts at contemporary music festivals. One of the concerts performed in Spain was in the Church of La Magdalena in Cordoba.

Parallel to this activity, he has cultivated a compositional activity which has allowed him, for some years now, to produce complete programs of his own music. Here he recreates the atmosphere of “cantejondo” and the resources of the flamenco guitar following a more personal inspiration, in which he fuses his “memories” as a classical musician with his passion for Spanish music. In fact, the Italian publishing house “De Ferrari” has published a book of eleven pieces for guitar with an annexed CD, called Calle de las Flores.

During the International Exhibition in Genoa in 1992 he was invited by the Commissioner of the Spanish Government to give two concerts a week in the Spanish Pavilion. In 1997 he made the most interesting concert tour of his life, organized by the Jesuit Refugee Centre in Rome, accompanying the lyric singer Maria FaustaGallamini in Angola.

He has often taken his voice and guitar to one of the most important children’s hospitals in Italy, the Gaslini Hospital in Genoa, to which he has dedicated a special song.

A born researcher, he has rescued from oblivion and specialized in 19th and 20th century classical guitar repertoire by Spanish (Agüado, Sor and Tárrega) and Italian (Carulli, Carcassi, Giuliani) composers, starting from his thesis on Fernando Sor.

He loves poetry and the Genoese dialect. And in the tradition of the troubadours of his homeland, he has a wide repertoire of his own songs.

In 2016 he decided to leave his work in Italy to devote himself entirely to the dissemination of his work and to continue delving into the themes he is passionate about today. He lives in Córdoba with his wife Inma and his daughter Carmen.
He is also interested in the interaction between music-art-poetry-introspection. He is currently working on projects where, through a certain type of repertoire and taking advantage of his experience as a teacher, he wants to give his music a more holistic and profound dimension. In fact, he has made a tour in the spring of 2017 with the chemotherapy patients of the Hospital San Juan de Dios, accompanying them 1 evening a week.

Marco Conzi is also a writer. The title of his first book “Una luz particular”, which has just been published by the Diputación de Córdoba, is a journey from the unique light of Andalusia to the light that is the soul of the world. They are small flashes, memories, experiences, adventures, experiences, reflections, pains, loves and heartbreaks. Through Cordoba, Andalusia, Spain, Italy and the world. In a dance that intertwines, mixes, colours, complements and turns everything into one. He is currently about to publish two more books.