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Born in Mantua Leonardo Zunica  studied at the Verona Conservatory, at the Hochschule für Musik Vienna. at the Moscow State Conservatory. His teachers include Renzo Bonizzato, Virginio Pavarana (former pupils of A.B. Michelangeli), Alfredo Speranza, Kostantin Bogino, Lev Naumov, Irina Chukowskaya. Guest in national and international festivals as a soloist and chamber musician, Leonardo Zunica has performed in Italy, France, Spain, Scotland, Finland, Ukraine, Croatia, Switzerland, Greece, Russia. Interested in contemporary music he curated the first performances of solo and chamber music by Luigi Manfrin, Gabrio Taglietti, Eero Hämmeeniemi, Evgen Stankovich, Corrado Rojac and italian young composers. His concert repertorire has included complete piano four hands works by Debussy (including original trascriptions), chamber music by Olivier Messiaen (Visions de l’Amen, Quatour pour la fin du temps, Oiseaux Exotiques and other works), George Crumb (complete Makrokosmos vol I, III,IV) and monographic projects with music by Mozart, Satie, Szymanowsky, Gershwin, Piazzolla. His activity includes collaborations with the violinist Oleksandr Semchuk, the clarinetists Anton Dressler and Gabriele Mirabassi, pianist Maria Ala-Hannula (Ebony piano duo), the cellist David Cohen, the saxophonist Federico Mondelci, the musicologist Sandro Cappelletto, and Ivano Fossati. His collaborations include those with contemporary music ensembles such as Gruppo Musica Insieme (Cremona), Dedalo Ensemble (Brescia), Icarus ensemble (Reggio Emilia) and, as a soloist, with orchestras such as the Verona Arena Orchestra, I Virtuosi Italiani, the National Orchestra of Ukraine. With Paolo Ghidoni and Antonio Mostacci he is part of the Trio di Mantova. His cd releases include Concerto for piano, violin and string quartet op. 21 by Ernest Chausson, the Debussy First book of Préludes including recordingof  historical piano trascription of "Prélude a l’après-midi d’une" faune by Leonard Borwick. Leonardo Zunica is artistic director of Eterotopie, a concert season project devoted to new music and new ways of esploring concert experiences. He’s teaching piano in italian conservatories.