David Zucchi – Past Concerts

Praised for his "urgently visceral" playing (TEMPO), London-based Canadian saxophonist David Zucchi enjoys a varied career as a performer of classical, contemporary, experimental, and improvised music, collaborating regularly across the UK, Europe, and Canada.

He has been featured by Nonclassical, Arraymusic, the Composers Platform, and the Royal Overseas League, appears on recordings from NMC, Another Timbre, and Birmingham Record Company, and has been broadcast on BBC Radio 3 and Resonance FM's The News Agents. Recent appearances as a soloist and chamber musician include Wigmore Hall, Purcell Room, St. John's Smith Square, Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival, Edinburgh Fringe, London Contemporary Music Festival, Sounds Like This!, Verbier Festival (Switzerland), Vale de Cambra Music Festival (Portugal), the Glenn Gould Studio, and the Canadian High Commission in London. Regular collaborators include accordionist Iñigo Mikeleiz-Berrade (as the Mikeleiz-Zucchi Duo, winners of the 2021 ROSL Mixed Ensemble Prize and City Music Foundation artists), soprano Patricia Auchterlonie (as Honkus), Ferio Saxophone Quartet, Alex Paxton's Dream Musics ("The most joyous sound I've heard in ages" – The New York Times), Ian Wadley (as Yesterday Shelf), Wynton Guess, and Ross K.

With a keen interest in the performance of contemporary and experimental music, David has premiered and been the dedicatee of many works by emerging and established composers, including Alex Paxton, Paolo Griffin, Roxanna Albayati, Robin Haigh, Adam Sherkin, Brian Elias, Caroline Bordignon, Christopher Fox, Michael Hughes, and Piyawat Louillarpprasert. He has appeared with leading UK contemporary music ensembles including Ensemble x.y, Explore Ensemble, Apartment House, GBSR Duo, and An assembly.

David currently works as an Associate Lecturer at Goldsmiths University (Music & Center for Cultural Studies) and BIMM Institute. He has delivered workshops and guest lectured at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire, Royal Northern College of Music, University of Huddersfield, and the Hochschule Luzern.

David was born in London (UK), and grew up in Toronto (Canada). He is a graduate of the Royal College of Music's Masters and Artist Diploma programmes, where he studied with Kyle Horch as an Edward and Helen Hague Scholar. Previously, David attended the University of Toronto Faculty of Music, where he studied saxophone with Wallace Halladay and composition with Alexander Rapoport. Upon graduating, he was awarded the William and Phyllis Waters Graduating Award, the Faculty's top graduating prize. David has attended the Universitée Européenne de Saxophone in Gap, France and was selected to participate in the London Sinfonietta Academy. He is currently a PhD student at the University of Huddersfield's CeReNeM, supported by the Canadian Centennial Scholarship Fund's Belle Shenkman Award.

David has received additional support from the Canada Council for the Arts, David and Marcia Beach Summer Study Award, the Women's Musical Club of Toronto, the William and Phyllis Waters Graduating Award from the University of Toronto, and the Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award.