Marco Frezzato studied with Mario Brunello at the Romanini Foundation in Brescia, with Antonio Meneses at the Perosi Academy in Biella, and with Amedeo Baldovino at the Fiesole Music School. He began his practice on original instruments at a very young age, and with increasing interest he deepened his studies in early music under Gaetano Nasillo, Laura Alvini and Lorenzo Ghielmi at the Scuola Civica in Milan, where he graduated with the highest marks and honours. From 2003 to 2015 he played the role of principal cello in the Accademia Byzantina under the direction of Ottavio Dantone. He is currently principal cello in various ensembles and orchestras - English Baroque Soloists, Monteverdi Choir and Orchestra, Concerto Italiano, Orchestra of the Enlightenment, Europa Galante, Le Concert d'Astrèe, Les Ambassadeurs, Orquestra Barroca de Selaudiana, Ensemble C. - with artists such as: John Eliot Gardiner, Roger Norrington, Rinaldo Alessandrini, Fabio Biondi, Daniele Gatti, Enrico Onofri, Emmanuelle Haïm, Christophe Coin, Alina Ibragimova, Isabelle Faust, Bernarda Fink, Viktoria Mullova, Andreas Scholl, Stephen Isserlis. Marco has been involved in numerous recordings with Archiv, Deutsche Grammophon, Decca, EMI, Onyx, Virgin Classics, L'Oiseau Lyre, Harmonia Mundi France, Deutsche Harmonia Mundi, Naive, Arts, Tactus, Claves, Stradivarius, Cristophorus, Amadeus radio and television broadcasts and live broadcasts - Arte, Mezzo, Radio France, BBC, Rai RadioTre, RSI, NDR, WDR and SWR - and concerts in the most prestigious concert seasons in Italy and abroad, such as the Auditorium Lingotto in Turin, the Accademia S.Cecilia Roma, Società del Quartetto di Milano, Carnegie Hall, New York, Walt Disney Hall, Los Angeles, KKL Luzern, Wiener Musikverein, Concertgebouw Amsterdam, Barbican Centre, Lufthansa Festival, Queen Elizabeth Hall and Wigmore Hall, London, Théâtre du Chatelet and Théâtre des Champs-Elysées Paris, Konzerthaus Berlin, Cologne Philharmonic, Vredenburg Utrecht, Alte Oper Frankfurt, Teatro Real Madrid, Le Palais des Beaux Arts Brussels and others. In 2002 he founded AleaEnsemble with violinists Fiorenza de Donatis and Andrea Rognoni and violist Stefano Marcocchi to explore the string quartet repertoire of the Classical and Romantic periods on original instruments. With AleaEnsemble Marco has recorded Mozart's Divertimento String Trio in E flat major KV 563 for the Italian label MVCremona, six quartets op. Luigi Boccherini II, dedicated to Stradivarius (Choc de la Musique 2008, Diapason d'Or 2008, 5 stars from Musica magazine), again by Stradivarius, a disc devoted to the last Haydn quartets Op. 77, and for Dynamic, the quartets Op. 15 by Luigi Boccherini, an unpublished work.
