Teodoro Anzellotti, born in Candela (Italy), studied in Karlsruhe and Trossingen (Germany). In 1985 he won First Prize at the International Hugo Herrmann Competition. Since 1987 he has been a teacher of accordion and chamber music at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Bern-Biel and since 1992 at the Darmstadt Summer Courses. He has been on the faculty of numerous international seminars and masterclasses. Foreign tours have taken him all over Europe, to the usa, Canada and Asia. As a soloist he has performed with the radio orchestras of Bavaria, Berlin, Saarbrücken, Freiburg, Köln and Ljubljana, and the Tonhalle-Orchester Zürich and Orquesta Sinfónica del Principado de Asturias, as well as with such chamber ensembles as Ensemble Modern, Scharoun Ensemble (Berlin), Klangforum Wien, Ensemble Contrechamps (Geneva), Collegium Novum Zürich, Varianti (Stuttgart), Münchner Kammerorchester, Deutsche Kammerphilarmonie Bremen, Nieuw Sinfonietta (Amsterdam), Arditti Quartet and ensemble recherche.
He has appeared at many prestigious festivals including Wittener Tage für neue Kammermusik, Musik-Biennale (Berlin), Ars Musica (Brussels), Donaueschinger Musiktage, the Venice Biennale, Archipel (Geneva), the Schleswig-Holstein Musikfestival, Milano Musica, Musiktriennale (Cologne), Gubelkian (Lisbon), Luzerner Festwochen, the Munich Biennale, Steirischer Herbst, Festival
d’Automne (Paris), Musica (Strasbourg), Pan Music Festival (Seoul), Éclat (Stuttgart) and Wien Modern.
The repertoire of Teodoro Anzellotti ranges from Baroque composers (Frescobaldi, Domenico Scarlatti, J. S. Bach) to new music, including pieces dedicated to him by such famous composers as Luciano Berio (Sequenza XIII), James Dillon, Vinko Globokar, Heinz Holliger, Mauricio Kagel, György Kurtág, Wolfgang Rihm, Salvatore Sciarrino and Karlheinz Stockhausen.