Andrea Zanchetta was born in a musical family in Venice, Italy. He was attracted by the sound of violin since he was very small and the first violin lesson was from his brother Stefano, who is an outstanding violinist and a well-known violin teacher in Venice.
In childhood, Zanchetta indulged in many passions outside of music, he liked to go with friends to the grassland nearby his home and built his own Bungalow, to try the new learned scientific experiments, to observe different kind of insects with his little insect guide. He likes swimming, he goes hiking regularly and once he reached Austria by crossing the Alps from Italy.
Zanchetta was serious about the instrument by 11. He quitted the normal school life at that time and concentrated only on music till he finished the 10-year-programme and graduated at the State Conservatory of Venice. Then, Zanchetta continued to study with Zinaida Gilels, a pupil of the legendary Yampolsky. He took part in a master class from Henryk Szerying and also courses from Eugenio Bagnoli, the pianist, as well as Franco Rossi, cellist of the 'Quartetto Italiano', both of them had widened his horizon to the chamber music. During that period, Zanchetta won prizes in some international competitions as well.
From the first concert at age 15, Zanchetta has already given over 1500 concerts performing as a soloist and a chamber musician among Europe, Japan, Hong Kong, China as well as Australia. Some of those performances were broadcasted in Italy, Australia, Japan and Hong Kong through radio and television. His recordings can be heard on twelve CDs recorded for the Rivoalto and Nuova Era labels.
In addition to give concerts with the modern violin, Zanchetta also played Baroque violin. He performed pieces of classical music in ways that similar to how they may have been performed when they were originally written. In Italy, he had the great privilege to perform with the Stradivari violin, the Hembert-Milanollo (1703).
Repertoire of Zanchetta is markedly broad, ranging from works of the late XVII century to contemporary and in recent years he has been focusing on the Italian virtuoso music of the XVIII and XIX centuries on both modern and baroque violin, bringing new life to over 50 different works by Vivaldi and many rare pieces by Paganini, Tartini and Geminiani all around the world.
Adding to the orchestral schedule, Zanchetta enjoys time spent to study Physics. From those little experiments in his childhood, he started to be very interested in science. However, he didn't complete the high school in the past and he got to go through those preparation courses as well as examinations before getting into the University.
So, one day, he really walked to the school. A lot of teachers were impressed by his talents and abilities as he could accomplish all the tasks in a year with remarkable result. In 2001, he achieved his laurea from the well-known Physics Department at the Padova University. With his outstanding performance on the subject, he became a researcher in Physics of Atmosphere cooperating with the National Council of Research (CNR), funded by the Italian Space Agency (ASI).
Zanchetta moved to Asia in 2007. In Hong Kong, Zanchetta has appeared as a soloist with the City Chamber Orchestra of Hong Kong, in duo with the pianist Nancy Loo and with the guitarist Tina Karen Lo. In the year 2009 he has been interviewed and invited to perform at RTHK and TVB.
Apart from his artistic activity, Zanchetta is keen on music education. He teaches in his private studio, international schools and universities. Besides teaching a Historical Performance Course at the Hong Kong University, Zanchetta is collaborating with the Hong Kong Baptist University as an artist lecturer, giving master classes to talented students, coaching a string quartet and a string orchestra Collegium Musicum. Many of his students got excellent results in their exams and won prizes in local and international competitions.
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