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Violinist Klaidi Sahatçi is violinist concertmaster, recitalist, soloist and chamber musician. He was born in 1972 in Tirana, Albania, where he began his musical studies at the age of six. In 1992 he moved to Italy to enrich his knowledge at the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan studying with Gigino Maestri and obtaining his diploma with the highest grade cum laude and a mention of honour. After that, he continues to study with Salvatore Accardo at the “W. Stauffer Academy” in Cremona and Boris Garlitzky in Lyon. His début-performance as young soloist with the RAI Italian National Symphony Orchestra in G.Verdi Hall in Milan marked for him the beginning of a remarkable path. Prior to joining the prestigious position of the First Concertmaster of the Tonhalle Orchestra in Zürich in 2009, he was Violon Solo of National Orchestra of Lyon, Second Concertmaster of Italian Switzerland Orchestra, First Concertmaster of Chamber Orchestra of Zurich and First Concertmaster of the Orchestra of Scala Theater Milan and Scala Philharmonic Orchestra. Simultaneously with his activity as Concermaster, Mr.Sahatçi has performed as a soloist with Tonhalle Orchester Zurich, Orchestre National de Lyon, Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana,Zürcher Kammer Orchester, Virtuosi Italiani, Orchestra da Camera di Milano, Orquesta Sinfonica de Chile, Cameristi della Scala,Orquesta filarmonica de Gran Canaria under the baton of D.Zinman, E.Krivine, A.Lombard, H.Griffiths, M.Nesterowitz and Gunter Herbig. During his intensive chamber music and recital activity he  has appeared in venues including Switzerland for Wort-und Bildfestifall, Lugano Festival, Meisterzyclus Zürich and Basel, Kammermusik-Konzerte in der Tonhalle, in Italy for Teatro Grande Brescia, Teatro Ponchielli Cremona,”MoZartBox” Napoli, ”Società del Giardino”,”Società dei Concerti” and Teatro alla Scala in Milan, in France for Sociète de Musique de Chambre Lyon, Salle Pleyel, Thêatre de la Haie and Palais des Congrès in Paris,in Macedonia for Ohri Festival,in his home country Albania for ”Different Trains” and “Pianodrom” Festival and many others. He has performed chamber music with artists such Rafael Oleg,Claire Desert, Bruno Giuranna,Bruno Canino, Dmitry Sitkovetski, Julian Rachlin, François-Frederic Guy, Fazil Say, Yuja Wang. Mr.Sahatci is one of the founding members of Altus Trio with cellist Sandro Laffranchini and pianist Andrea Rebaudengo with whom in 2014 recorded for label LimenMusic trio from Schumann, Donizetti and Bernstein. Since 2012 Mr.Sahatci has been a professor at University of Music of Italian Switzerland in Lugano and has given several masterclasses principally in Italy and Spain. Klaidi Sahatçi plays an Antonio Stradivarius violin, the “Wieniawsky, Bower” of 1719 offered by Mercedes-Benz Zurich.