Interviewed by Corriere della Sera as “one of the five twenty-year-olds who will save Italy”, Raimondo Mazzon is an Italian organist, conductor, harpsichordist, fortepianist and pianist. He made his debut at the age of 10 at the Mozarteum in Salzburg on the piano, and at 12 as an organist in the “Großer Saal” of the same institution. Since then, he has given regular recitals throughout Europe, without neglecting chamber music.

He graduated with distinction in organ in Italy at just 14, and subsequently continued his studies, again with the highest honours, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna (MDW) under P. Peretti, as well as in harpsichord at the Mozarteum Salzburg in the class of F. Birsak. He studied at the conservatories of Venice and Padua with R. Loreggian, P. Turetta and A. Barutti, refining his pianistic art at the Imola Academy with M. Van Gent, organ at the Civica Scuola di Musica “Claudio Abbado” with L. Ghielmi, and harpsichord at the Accademia Chigiana in Siena with F. Birsak.

At 14 he won his first organ competition, the “A. Salieri” competition in Legnago, and has since received numerous awards, including “Svirel” 2017, “IMC” 2022, the “Euterpe Award 2023”, “Città di Crema” 2019, “Fondazione Friuli” 2019, “Terenzio Zardini” 2021, “Rino Benedet” 2022 and “Maria Hofer” 2022. In 2023 he was awarded the “MDW Great Talent Award”, becoming the first Italian and the first organist to receive this prize for best instrumentalist at the world’s largest music university.

His discography includes a CD of organ transcriptions of John Williams’s music, the complete recording of Vivaldi’s Op. 2 sonatas as continuo player, and an album of Italian music recorded on the organ of the Augustinerkirche in the heart of Vienna. After completing his instrumental studies, he finished his orchestral conducting training at the Imola International Academy “Incontri col Maestro” with M. Boni and attended advanced courses with C. Thielemann, T. Purser (Royal College of Music, London) and M. Allemandi (Accademia dell’Opera, Florence).

He has conducted, among others, Orchestra Senzaspine, Beethoven Philarmonie, Orchestra Arrigoni and the Chamber Choir and Orchestra of Varaždin, making his debut both in the operatic and symphonic repertoire. The opera productions he has led include Così fan tutte at the Altes Rathaus in Vienna, L’elisir d’amore for the Koliqi Competition 2023, Ode for Saint Cecilia by Händel/Mozart at Bergamo Cathedral, Dido and Aeneas in Varaždin, Don Giovanni at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, Tosca in Klosterneuburg, La clemenza di Tito again in Varaždin, La traviata in Reggio Calabria, as well as working as répétiteur for Macbeth in 2025 at the Salzburg Festspiele. Among his upcoming engagements is the role of répétiteur for Die Zauberflöte at the Mozartwoche 2026 at the Haus für Mozart, in collaboration with Rolando Villazón.

He is currently continuing his orchestral conducting studies in the class of Ion Marin and Alexander Drcar at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, where he is also deepening his work in musical stage interpretation with Gernot Sahler. In parallel, he pursues his artistic research as an organist under the guidance of Hannfried Lucke and as a fortepianist and harpsichordist with Florian Birsak.