Marco Pierobon
The 48th Annual International Trumpet Guild Conference
Anaheim, CA
Marco Pierobon
Recital: Rome & New York (Cinecittà and Broadway)
Marco Pierobon has performed as a soloist with the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, the English Chamber Orchestra, the Vienna Kammerkonzert, I virtuosi del Teatro alla Scala, I Solisti Veneti, Marchigiana Philharmonic, and with the Symphony Orchestras of Mantua, Bolzano, Vicenza, and Sanremo.
He won first prize in the international competitions of Passau, Germany and Imperia and Aqui Terme, Italy. From 1999 to 2002 he was principal trumpet of the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino Orchestra, and from 2003 to 2008 he was principal trumpet of the Accademia di Santa Cecilia Orchestra. He has collaborated as principal trumpet with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Filarmonica della Scala Orchestra.
Pierobon has worked as soloist with conductors Zubin Mehta, Isaac Karabtchevsky, Etienne Siebens, Friedrich Heider, Guenther Neuhold, and Ralph Gothoni. He has also performed works dedicated to him him by composers Giancarlo Aquilanti, Angelo Sormani, Giuseppe Bonafine, and Michele Mangani. In 2014, he premiered Aquilanti’s Trumpet Concerto on tour with the Stanford Wind Symphony.
Since 2014 he has conducted the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, the Haydn Symphony Orchestra of Bolzano, the Croatian National Theatre Orchestra Zagreb, the Slovenian Radio Symphony Orchestra, the Opera Carlo Felice Orchestra Geova and the Orchestra da camera di Perugia. In 2017 he was featured as soloist during the Astana 2017 Expo (Kazakhstan) and was invited to perform at the International Trumpet Guild Conference (USA) 2017 and 2021. In 2018, he premiered Aquilanti’s Double Concerto on tour with the Stanford Wind Symphony. In the same year he appeared as soloist with the Teatro alla Scala Orchestra (Mahler’s Third Symphony) and in worldwide live streaming with the Orchestra Filarmonica della Scala.
Pierobon has released several instructional DVDs and solo recordings. Among them are: “Solo,” (2011, Marche Wine Orchestra with conductor Michele Mangani) “Nano Nano,” (2013, New Project Funk Orchestra) “The Golden Trumpet” (2015, Giovani Fiati Umbri with conductor Filippo Salemmi) “Made in Italy” (2015, Insubria Wind Orchestra with conductor Angelo Sormani) and “The Maestro” (2017, Orchestra di Fiati dell’Istituto Vecchi Tonelli di Modena e Carpi with conductor Massimo Bergamini). Pierobon has held master classes in the United States, Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, China, Canada, England, Greece, Germany, Austria, and Italy. He has been a trumpet professor at the Bolzano Conservatory in Italy since 2007. He has recorded for Sony and EMI with the Accademia di Santa Cecilia under the direction of Antonio Pappano.
As a member of the Gomalan Brass Quitnet, he has performed throughout the world and recorded CDs and DVDs for Summit Records and Naxos. Pierobon is Yamaha Performing Artist and Wedge Mouthpiece Endorsing Artist and plays exclusively on Yamaha instruments and Wedge mouthpieces. He currently lives in the countryside near Parma with his wife Francesca, violinist and music teacher, two sons, Biagio (Bassoon player) and Amelia (Horn player), and two dogs, Violetta and Alfredo.