Moira Cauzzo was born in 2003 in Sorengo, Switzerland. At the early age of two she started playing the violin in the class of Anna Modesti at the Conservatorio della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. In 2016 she entered the PreCollege section of the school and one year later she was admitted to take additional classes with Marco Rizzi at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Mannheim. She then continued her pre-professional studies with him in Lugano until 2022, when she was admitted to his and Sergey Teslya’s class at the prestigious Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía, where she is currently pursuing her Bachelor’s Degree with a scholarship from the Albéniz Foundation. She has attended classes with Ana Chumachenco, Miriam Fried, Marta Gulyás, Alina Pogotskina, Heime Müller and Valery Gradow.
She is top prizewinner of several international and national competitions, including the First Absolute Prize at the XVIII International “Andrea Postacchini” Competition in Fermo, which she won at the age of seven, the First Prize with honorable mention for her category at the 2012 and 2016 editions of the SJMW Swiss Youth Competition and the First Prize with honorable mention at the “International Young Talents with Orchestra Competition” in Barlassina in 2013.
At the age of nine she made her debut as a soloist with the Orchestra Giovanile della Svizzera Italiana under the baton of Daniele Giorgi playing the Romance op.50 of L.V.Beethoven and since then she has had the opportunity to play with different orchestras, such as the North Caucasus Philharmonic Orchestra “V.I. Safonov” , the United Soloists Orchestra, the AMA Ensemble Orchestra and the Baden-Baden Philharmonic Orchestra in 2017, with whom she played F. Mendelssohn’s Violin Concerto op.64. She has also held concerts and recitals in different parts of Switzerland, Italy, Slovenia and Spain.
During the past year 2023/24 she has performed in many concerts in Madrid and in other Spanish cities as a soloist, but also while participating in a lot of chamber music and orchestral projects. As a student of the ESMRS she has had different experiences playing in the Freixenet Orchestra, with world reknowned conductors like Andrés Orozco-Estrada, Sir András Schiff, Juanjo Mena and Peter Csaba. She played as concertmaster in a project of the Baroque Ensemble of the School, with Paul Goodwin and is currently part of the Händel Quartet and the Tchaikovsky Trio. In the past few months she had the opportunity to play with her trio in Palau de la Música Catalana in Barcelona and in Bilbao.
Recently she has participated and performed in different festivals and masterclasses, including the Kronberg Academy Festival 2023, Encuentros de Música y Academia de Santander 2024, TicinoMusica Music Festival, Garda Lake Music Festival, Livorno Music Festival and the International Sommerakademie Ettal.
Moira plays on a 1907 Leandro Bisiach violin, kindly loaned by a private source.