About Me
Born in Mendrisio (Switzerland) in 1979, Zeno Gabaglio began playing soccer in 1986 and a year later started playing the cello. 8 years later he terminated his schooling and also stopped playing soccer, throwing away a career that had never really begun.
It was at that point that he started playing cello more intensely and more consciously, and eventually was awarded with a degree at the Conservatory of Lugano, with subsequent specialisations in different areas such as the Musikakademie in Basel, the Académie Tibor Varga, and the Scuola di Musica in Fiesole.
Having felt that the dogmas of the musical academy were too weak, he pursued his studies in philosophy, eventually obtaining a degree in aesthetics in Florence and defending a thesis on formativity and improvisation.Overwhelmed by the excess of theory in certain areas of philosophy, Zeno Gagaglio is now seeking his own ambiguous ways between theorein and poiein, between thinking and doing.Zeno Gabaglio’s musical activities include, always with the cello, playing with symphonic orchestras, teenager glam-rock bands, composing music scores for film, ethnic music, improvisation with poets and dancers, theatres, playing in the woods and on the streets. Although in different ways, his musical lifestyle has brought him to share experiences with Vinko Globokar, Sergio Givone, Michel Godard, Garbo, Walter Fähndrich, Taisuke Yamashita, Christian Gilardi, Xabier Iriondo, David Darling, Chiara Zocchi, Angelo Tonelli, Villi Hermann, Alessandra Belloni, Gionata, Marcio Carneiro, Enrico Centonze, Marcello Sorce Keller, Tibe, Luigi Pareyson, Emmanuel Louis, Riccardo Zara, Tobia Botta, Ermanno Librasi and Fakhraddin Gafarov, Colléctif Rue du Nord, Olivia Heussler, Tikino, Laura Konjetzky, Stradedelcinema, Andrea Manzoni, Azione.
