Biography
Nicolas Mazzoleni is a French Baroque violinist.
It was during his studies at the Conservatoire National Superieur de Musique de Lyon (where he was awarded a first prize in the practice of modern violin) that Nicolas Mazzoleni focused on the restoration of baroque violin.
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Since then, he has performed as soloist in many Baroque ensembles in Europe. (He is invited annually as a solo violin by the Baroque orchestra of the European Union.)
Currently (2013) leader of the second violin section of the Musiciens du Louvre Grenoble, he also performs chamber music with (among others) Bob Van Asperen, Martin Gester, Christophe Rousset, and Jean-Paul Fouchécourt.
In 1998 he founded his own ensemble, the Collegium Baroque, performing music written for chamber ensembles as well as for small orchestral groups.
He has recorded for Ligia Digital an album devoted to Johann Sébastian Bach's Concerti for 2, 3 and 4 keyboards Bach with, among others, Olivier Vernet and Marie-Claire Alain playing positive organ (portable pipe organ) single-manual instrument (continuo instrument).
Biography text from Last.fm, available under CC BY-SA.