Biography

Son of an Argentinian father, he was born in São Paulo in 1974 where he studied piano with Gilberto Tinetti at the University of São Paulo (SP-Brazil) and later with Luiz Carlos de Moura Castro at the University of Hartford, (CT-USA). He took classes with several pianists such as Vladimir Viardo, Monique Duphil, Pièrre Reach, Paulo Álvares, José Feghali, Florence Millet, Blanca Uribe and worked on Lied with Dalton Baldwin and the Japanese soprano Misuko Shirai.

In the 2021-22 academic year he was a student at ESMUC where he completed the Master of Lied, receiving classes from Francisco Poyato, Assumpta Matheu and Pep Surinyac and presenting his TFM directed at the “canção”, vocal chamber music sung in Portuguese. A multidisciplinary musician, he also studied singing with Benito Maresca (Brazil), Wayne Rivera (USA), apart from some classes with Joan Martí-Royo in Barcelona.

He studied orchestral conducting with Bernie Lurry and Jordi Lluch and organ with Larry Alan Smith, this latter at the Hartt School of Music. As a chamber pianist he worked with the students of the Emerson String Quartet and the Lions Gate Trio, receiving direct lessons from these prestigious groups. He was also a pianist and singer for the Connecticut Concert Opera and as an organist he was musical director of different choirs in Connecticut. In 2002 he moved to Medellín, Colombia, where he was Professor of Piano at the EAFIT University and pianist of the university's symphony orchestra.

He promoted and participated in several musical exchanges between Colombia and Brazil, Catalonia and the Caribbean, working directly on contemporary music, either as a pianist or as director of the Ensemble de Música Nova of the same university. During his last year in Medellín, he presented a daily program on the National University Radio called Tempo Giusto, where he presented piano music in its various facets. Since 2007 he lives in Girona and works as a vocal coach at the Liceu Superior Conservatory in Barcelona.

As a soloist, he presents a solo piano program called “From Brazil to Catalonia” that has taken him to different places in Catalonia and to countries such as the United States of America, Germany, Argentina, Portugal, Brazil and Italy. He is the pianist of the Symphonic Cobla and String Orchestra of Catalonia (Girona) and director of the Community Choirs Coral Croscat of Olot and Coral Cypsella of Sant Feliu de Guíxols.

In 2024 he made his debut as an orchestra conductor in front of the Orchestre Symphonique de Canet en Roussillon (France), performing together with his choirs the choral-symphonic work "Scenes from the Bavarian Highlands" by Edward Elgar. Many other projects came along after that, as Bach Christmas Oratorium, Rossini’s Stabat Mater, Händel’s Messiah and L. Bernstein Chichester Psalms.

“…debutaba aquí Claudio Suzin, de amplios medios solísticos y, a la vez, impecable pianista de lied. Lució lo primero en la interpretación de la Liebestod de Tristán e Isolda, versionada por Liszt para el piano. No faltó el relieve justo de cada una de las muchas sonoridades y los deslizamientos cromáticos que Wagner distribuye entre la voz y las texturas orquestales, dando prueba Suzin de un envidiable oído armónico…”

G. García-Alcalde; La Provincia, Diario de Las Palmas.

“…Im letzten Satz gab der Pianist, mit sehr achtbarer pianistischer und musikalich engagierter Leistung für Klau Rothaupt eingesprungen, Pfeffer in die Musik, sodass die Delikatesse des "Rittes" nicht unterging.” (En l'últim moviment, el pianista, amb un compromís musical i pianístic molt respectable, va entrar i pentinar la música, de manera que la delicadesa del "viatge" no va baixar)

Ulrich Kernen; Neue Westfäliche Zeitung.

“…You were a lifesaver for the student recital, learning the Faure songs in a few hours and playing them so well. Everything you play is full of the right kind of musical and poetic.Your music comes from deep within. Warmest wishes,

Dalton Baldwin”