Florian Conzetti

Florian Conzetti has performed as a percussion soloist, chamber music collaborator, and orchestral musician in Europe and the United States. He studied percussion, marimba, timpani, and music education at the Konservatorium für Musik in Bern, Switzerland, the Eastman School of Music, and the Peabody Conservatory, where he earned a doctorate in music as a student of marimbist Robert Van Sice and musicologist John Spitzer. He has appeared most recently at Stanford Lively Arts (with Alarm Will Sound), Cal Performances, and Music@Menlo. He also performs regularly with the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players, Berkeley Contemporary Chamber Players, Peabody Percussion Group, Eastman Wind Ensemble, and Bern Symphony Orchestra, and has recorded for Albany Records. Florian Conzetti teaches at the University of San Francisco and University of California at Berkeley, and has been a guest speaker at Stanford University, the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, and the Chinese University of Hong Kong.