Andrea Pedrazzini

Andrea Pedrazzini was born in Bellinzona, Switzerland, in 1992. He started studying piano at the Vivaldi Academy in Locarno at the age of 6, with Francesca Rivabene and Michele Fedrigotti. During his high-school studies on a science profile, he continued his piano studies with Leonardo Leonardi, and music theory with Sergio Bianchi, taking exams in both subjects at the Giuseppe Verdi Conservatorio di Milano. In 2021, after graduating his science studies, he is awarded a diploma in piano studies from the “Luca Marenzio” Conservatorio di Brescia, at the age of 19.

His passion for the Grand Organ started at age 9, when self-taught he started to accompany the liturgy at the Santuario della Madonna del Sasso di Orselina. In september 2017 he pursues further studies at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana di Lugano with Stefano Molardi, completing his Masters in Organ Performance.

He has been playing both as solo pianist and as organist throughout the years, both with chamber groups as well as with orchestras, in various concerts in Switzerland and in Italy. He has collaborated with various vocal formations both for concert performances as well as for album recordings and releases.

His contact with more recent musical instruments, such as the Hammond organ and synthesisers, has brought him closer to explorations in new music genres, including jazz and rock, and this search for new sounds has brought him to participate in concerts and recordings of these genres as well.

As the organist of the Collegiata di Locarno, he has participated in 2014 in the project of restauration of the Gran Organ at the Parrocchiale di Brione s. Minusio church, to which he is also the organist. On this instrument he has invited special guests to a festival comprising concerts of high artistic value, which he is organizing and to which he remains Artistic Director of; this festival is an initiative of the Associazione Amici dell’Organo di Locarno.

He is teaching music at the Liceo Cantonale di Lugano 2, where he is also choir leader and director of the orchestra, and blends all his music activities with that of also being a certified federal accountant.