Winner of the Swiss Government Excellence Scholarships for Foreign Scholars and Artists ’20/’22, the Roscini-Padalino prize for the best newly graduated instrumentalists ’21 and the Pirastro Young Artist Prize by the EchoArts (Munich), Margherita Succio moves at ease with the great cello repertoire.

Particularly committed to chamber music, since the ’22-’23 season Margherita is a member of the Chaarts Chamber Artists, a leading chamber ensemble based in Zurich. She performed at Sale Apollinee in Venice, at Musikverein in Vienna with Giovanni Gnocchi, at Künstlerhaus Boswil with Erik Schumann, at Elbphilarmonie with Gabriel Schwabe.

Born in Italy in 2001, she graduates in 2020 at the Conservatory of Alessandria with a Bachelor’s Degree in Cello with Claudio Merlo. In the meantime, at age 14, she began her music training under renowned teacher and mentor Antonio Meneses, which lasted for seven years. This is a crucial step in her artistic education: she studied with him at the Walter Stauffer Academy in Cremona at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena and at the Hochschule der Künste Bern, HKB where she got her MA in Music Performance Classical in 2022. Margherita is currently undertaking her second Master’s degree at the Conservatorium Maastricht with Quirine Viersen, supported by the Associazione De Sono Italia.

Alongside her activity as a performer, she successfully combines her commitment as an author and independent researcher in the field of Music. She’s among the authors of the newly published Italian work Bach: Concerti Branderbughesi by Quinte Parallele, Carocci Editions. She is also the creator and author of the column Cello In-Audito for the Italian on-line music magazine Quinte Parallele.

Margherita performs on a Luis Amorim cello, Montagnana “Ex-Eisenberg” 1773 copy made in 2021 in Cremona.