Marco Facchini graduated from the Conservatoire of Bologna in 1984. He studied with Enzo Porta and Gabriella Armuzzi, and later refined his training with Corrado Romano at the Conservatoire of Geneva, Carlo Chiarappa at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, the Tokyo String Quartet at Yale University (USA), and the Borodin Quartet. Together with several musicians from Ravenna, he founded the string orchestra \u201cAccademia Bizantina\u201d. He is also a founding member of the Fon\u00e8 Quartet ([www.quartettofone.it](http:\/\/www.quartettofone.it)), winner of major international competitions including the \u201cD. Shostakovich\u201d Competition in St Petersburg, the \u201cG. B. Viotti\u201d Competition in Vercelli, and the Trapani Competition. With this ensemble he performed the complete string quartets of Beethoven and Bart\u00f3k in important Italian theatres. He has recorded for RAI, ORF, and Canadian television, and has made recordings for the labels ARK and Ermitage. His recorded repertoire includes Schubert\u2019s Piano Quintet, performed with Franco Rossi, and Tchaikovsky\u2019s sextet *Souvenir de Florence*, in collaboration with Sadao Harada (cellist of the Tokyo Quartet) and Harald Schoneweg (violinist of the Cherubini Quartet). He performs regularly for major Italian institutions such as Teatro alla Scala of Milan, Accademia Nazionale di Santa Cecilia of Rome, Teatro La Fenice of Venice, the Amici della Musica of Florence, and the Associazione A. Scarlatti of Naples, as well as in major musical centres across Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan. He is also active in contemporary repertoire as first violin of the Sinopoli Chamber Orchestra and of G.A.M.O. (Gruppo Aperto Musica Oggi) in Florence. He has taught advanced courses in violin, chamber music, and string quartet in Italy, Japan, the United States, and South America.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marco Facchini graduated from the Conservatoire of Bologna in 1984. He studied with Enzo Porta and Gabriella Armuzzi, and later refined his training with Corrado Romano at the Conservatoire of Geneva, Carlo Chiarappa at the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole, the Tokyo String Quartet at Yale University (USA), and the Borodin Quartet. Together with several […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":593102,"parent":593244,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"template-parts\/docenti-child.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-592711","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\n