Italian violinist Cecilia Ziano enjoys a versatile international performance career.
Particularly recognized for her expressive interpretations, her musicality and curiosity has brought her to stages worldwide in various roles: as a soloist, as an avid chamber musician, and in a Play/Direct leader capacity with numerous orchestras.

She is the Leader of Kammerakademie Postdam and Munich Chamber Orchestra.  As a Leader she collaborates with Rotterdam Philharmonic, Kammerakademie Postdam, Munich Chamber Orchestra, Scottish Chamber Orchestra, Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Antwerp Symphony Orchestra, Concertgebouw Orkest, L’orchestre de la Suisse Romande.

Since 2014 she is the first violin of Lyskamm quartet.  After finishing their study with Heime Müller in Lübeck, and with ECMA, the quartet won several prizes in international competitions, 1st prize at “Possehl Wettbewerb” 2nd Prize and special prize at “Schubert und die Moderne” in Graz, 1st prize at “G.Bergamo” in Lugano and the prestigious Borletti Buitoni -Trust special chamber music prize 2016, dedicated to Claudio Abbado that opens to the quartet an international career.  In 2016 the Quartet was selected to be in residence at “Amici della musica di Padova” and they are now Quartet in Residence in Rome for the next 3 years at “Filarmonica Romana” doing all Beethoven op.18 and Bartòk’s quartets.
They are regular invited by Società del Quartetto di Milano, Lingotto Musica from Turin, Musica Insieme Bologna, Amici della Musica di Firenze, Brahms Festival Hamburg, ProQuartet from Paris, and they were in residence at Aldeburgh Music Festival in UK. They just gave a concert and masterclasses in UK at  University of Oxford, Faculty of Music. They are regular guests of RaiRadio3 Classica.  In January 2019 was released their first CD dedicated to B. Bartòk quartets.

She is also very much interested in baroque and classic repertoire, studying and playing with Federico Guglielmo, Lorenzo Coppola, and Spira Mirabilis project, touring trough Denmark with Sergio Azzolini, and with her quartet, going deep in the classical and early romantic language working closely with Clive Brown.

Important meetings that strongly influenced Cecilia’s musical growth were with Ferenc Rados, Cuarteto Casals, Bruno Giuranna, Guy Braunstein, Boris Garlitzky, Eberhard Feltz, and the SpiraMirabilis project.  She is supported by the Dutch Musical Instruments Foundation and she teaches violin advanced courses at
“Accademia di Musica di Pinerolo” and the summer course “I Musici di Parma” in beautiful Salsomaggiore Terme.

In 2022 she debuted her solo Album for KHA Records “ Waiting for Paganini” both with baroque and modern violins.

Born in a little town close to Turin, she began studying the violin at the age of four with Maestro Fabrizio Pavone using the Suzuki method. She graduated from Conservatory in Turin with Christine Anderson while from age of 11 she studied with Dora Schwarzberg and Adrian Pinzaru at “Accademia di musica di
Pinerolo”.

She finished her studies in Berlin in “Hanns Eisler” Musikhochschüle with Kolja Blacher and in Cremona with Salvatore Accardo.