Nicola Marasco was born in Foggia in 1983 and graduated with honor in Piano with D. Caratori and Electronic Music with D. Monacchi at the Conservatorio of Music “U. Giordano” in Foggia. He also attended piano master classes with I. Ossipova (Moscow Conservatory), in fortepiano with R. Levine (Harvard University) and in choir conducting with F. M. Bressan M. Berrini. He studied also Bassoon, Harpsichord and Singing. He began his Orchestra Conducting studies at Accademia Musicale Pescarese with Donato Renzetti and at the same time concluded a conducting Master with P. Bellugi, B. Bartoletti, L. Jia, J. Panula, L. Shambadal, A. Allemandi, R. Palumbo.
In 2005 won a scholarship as pianist for Teatro Lirico Sperimentale in Spoleto, and played with R. Bruson, R. Kabaivanska he also worked as pianist for the singing masterclasses of renouned singers like M. Freni, F. Araiza, I. Cotrubas, F. Cedolins e A. Antoniozzi, M. Trombetta.In 2007 he won the scholarship for conductors at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna. He early started a conducting and piano career which brought him to perform with some notable orchestras like La Fenice Philharmonic Orchestra Venice, Rhein-Mein Philharmoniker, Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic Orchestra Parma, Thüringen Philarmonie, Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Filarmonica Marchigiana, Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, FVG Mitteleuropa Orchestra, Sinfonica della Provincia di Bari, Sinfonica di Pescara, G. Frescobaldi di Ferrara, Sinfonica di Grosseto, Sinfonica Tito Schipa di Lecce, "F. Cilea" Theatre Orchestra, Symphonic Orchestra of United Europe, Rome Orchestra.
He performed in different italian theaters like Roma, Venezia, Bologna, Palermo, Parma, Treviso, Jesi, Fermo, Lecce, Brindisi, Como, Udine; European Concert Hall like Stuttgart, Mainz, Frankfurt (Alte Oper), Moscow (Rachmaninov Hall), Gotha (Stadthalle), Tver, Tirana, Seoul and Anyang in South Corea. He performed with Rome Chamber Orchestra several the Japan Tour in 2012, 2018, 2019 playing in major Concert Halls like Tokyo Opera City, Kyoto, Nagoya, Okayama, Yokohama, Shiga, Osaka.
He performed charmed music for the Netherlands Italian Embassy in Den Haag (Netherlands) in ESTEC for European Space Agency in Noordwjik.
Recently he conducted the first world performance of Tristan und Isolde by Wagner arranged as double concerto for violin and piano, Rome Auditorium della Conciliazione - United Europe Symphonic Orchestra and a tour with Mozart Requiem in the Ancient Cathedrals of southern Italy - Orchestra of Umberto Giordano Theatre, Il Barbiere di Siviglia of G. Rossini in Teatro Marrucino of Chieti with the stage direction of famous "Rivista" director Pierfrancesco Pingitore. He conduct Luciano Berio’s Sinfonia in Theatre “La Fenice” in Venice with Swingle Singers and La Fenice Philharmonic Orchestra.
Nicola Marasco is also active as composer: his “Five chamber songs”, performed in Moscow in Rachmaninov’s Hall; he conducts his Majdanek-Requiem for the Foggia University and wrote the Rapsodie quartett commissioned by the Town Hall of his city to remember Antonio Gramsci’s death. For KZ-Musik he recorded discs 6, 7 and 12 of the Encyclopedia of Music wrote in concentration camps, performing the complete choral works. For “Dynamic” has recorded Paisiello’s “La Daunia Felice”, The Four Seasons by A. Vivaldi with Rome Orchestra and the Breaths a Symphonic Orchestration of Beatle's music with Saverio Mercadante Orchestra.
