Saccon-Génot Duo

Violin & Piano

 

Born in 1968 in Treviso, Christian Joseph Saccon began studying violin at the Castelfranco Veneto Conservatory of Music under the direction of G. Volpato, the last heir of Luigi Ferro's renowned Venetian school. In 1988, he graduated with honors and subsequently attended numerous specialized courses directed by the most renowned and representative European musicians: V. Liberman, V. Pikaisen, T. Varga, N. Brainin, C. Romano, F. Gulli, U. Ughi, Asciolla, and Meunier.

He has won important awards and participated in numerous national and international competitions.

He has performed as concertmaster, assistant concertmaster, and first violin with the G. Verdi Symphony Orchestra of Milan, conducted by internationally renowned maestros, and has played with prestigious orchestras such as the Fiesole Youth Orchestra, E.C.Y.O. European Chamber Orchestras, the Padua and Veneto Chamber Orchestra, the "I Pomeriggi Musicali" Orchestra of Milan, the Orchestra of the Philharmonic Academy of La Scala in Milan, and "I Solisti Veneti."

 

He held the chair of violin from 2000 to 2002 at the "G. Verdi" Conservatory of Music in Milan, working as concertmaster of the Conservatory's Philharmonic Orchestra under the artistic direction of Maestro Gelmetti.

 

In October 2002, he won the competition for concertmaster and soloist with the Youth Symphony Orchestra of the Cassa di Risparmio di Roma, conducted and formed by Maestro La Vecchia. In January 2003, he performed as soloist with the same orchestra at the Teatro Argentina in Rome, under the direction of Maestro Paolo Olmi, receiving unanimous critical acclaim, declaring him one of the finest violinists of his generation. He currently teaches violin at the Turin Conservatory.

 

He has recorded the Tchaikovsky Violin Concerto, Mozart's Violin Concerto No. 5 and Concertone for Two Violins with Piero Toso on CD and DVD, Viotti's Violin Concerto No. 16 with the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, and Brahms's Violin Concerto on DVD (Audiophile Sound magazine, May 2012) with the MAV Orchestra Budapest. Regarding this Brahms, the authoritative music critic Alberto Cantù wrote: "Saccon is a limpid soloist, with impeccable playing, eloquent, with the pathos of artists of the past, and, indeed, as in the past, applause at the end of every movement."

 

He performed Wieniawski's Violin Concerto No. 1 with the OCF in Ferrara on December 5, 2012, to great acclaim. In 2014, he performed W. Ernst's Concerto Pathétique with the OCF in Ferrara, receiving glowing international reviews.

 

He plays a 1924 Giuseppe Fiorini violin, which he himself owns, and a Capicchioni violin that belonged to Maestro Accardo.

 

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Massimiliano Génot, born in 1968 in Pinerolo, began studying music at an early age at the local Civico Istituto Musicale Corelli with Roberto Musto. Encouraged by Georgy Cziffra, who followed him to his Foundation in Paris, he graduated with honors in Piano at the age of sixteen under the guidance of Gianni Sartorio at the "G. Verdi" Conservatory in Turin. While he immediately began his piano studies, he also earned a diploma in Composition with Gilberto Bosco and Riccardo Piacentini, and graduated with honors from the Classical High School. After receiving a Diploma of Excellence at the end of his first period of advanced training with Aldo Ciccolini at the “L. Perosi” International Academy of Biella, he was also mentored by Agostino Orizio, a student of Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and by Maria Tipo, who admitted him to her three-year Virtuosity course at the Geneva Conservatory, where he received the “Premier Prix de Virtuosité avec distinction” and the “Prix Filipinetti”. He earned a “Diploma in Concert Music” at the “S. Cecilia” Music Foundation in Portogruaro with Piero Rattalino, and concluded his studies with the Diploma from the “Incontri col Maestro” Academy of Imola, discovering the Russian school with Lazar Berman, and the historical-analytical approach to interpretation again with Piero Rattalino. In particular, following his virtuosic studies, he made the first ever recording of Carl Czerny’s “The School of Speed” op. 299, using the original metronomes, along with the Etudes op. 6 by Franz Liszt (CD Phoenix Classics). The CD received a Caruso Foundation Award and numerous critical acclaim.

 

Winner of numerous national and international competitions, including the Ferruccio Busoni Competition in Bolzano in 1994, the Rina Sala Gallo Competition in Monza, the Alfred Cortot Competition in Milan, the Mavi Marcoz Competition in Saint Vincent, and the Arcangelo Speranza Competition in Taranto, he has an intense concert activity in Italy and abroad. He has performed for the Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, Settembre Musica, and the Teatro Regio in Turin, the Sagra Musicale Malatestiana, the Academy of Music of Montenegro, the Bocconi University in Milan, the Polytechnic University of Turin, the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa, and in Brazil for the Oficina de Musica de Curitiba (where he held masterclasses as a visiting professor).