Fazioli History

In 2016 Zenith Music and Snadens Pianos celebrate the 10th year in our relationship with Fazioli Pianos.

Beginning with the sale of our first Fazioli to the University of Western Australia School of Music we have seen these magnificent grand pianos enhance the musical culture in many homes and institutions around Australia, including the Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, St. George’s College in Perth, the Sydney Conservatorium of Music and many high schools renowned for the quality of their music programs.

As you can read below, Fazioli is a piano maker of great passion and has developed a tradition of high-quality, consistent, refined and beautiful instruments. In keeping with the high standard that has come to characterise Fazioli, Zenith Music and Snadens Pianos pride themselves on having professional, knowledgeable, passionate and friendly staff including technicians who have undertaken advanced training in order to take care of each and every Fazioli we sell. We are proud to partner with Fazioli in Australia.

“We looked for the very best, the ‘Zenith’ of pianos, and we found Fazioli. We are extremely happy with the quality of their design, construction, sound, touch and power. We know of none better than Fazioli”. —Lionel Cranfield (founder of Zenith Music)

2016 marks another milestone in the rise of Fazioli, which was included in the 2016 Sydney International Piano Competition of Australia. Under the direction of Maestro Pierce Lane, Fazioli was invited to join the competition this year and they were eager to accept the invitation. Working closely with Zenith Music and Snadens Painos the Fazioli F278 concert grand piano will take its place in yet another acclaimed international piano competition.

Since 1981, Fazioli has been producing grand and concert grand pianos. The main elements required for producing Fazioli pianos are a passion for music and scientific knowledge, the highest level of artisanship, a firm commitment to technological research, and a strict selection of the finest materials.

The famous Juilliard School, in New York, has recently bought a Fazioli concert piano. For the first time this institution – which is considered among the most important in the world for high-level musical training – has broken the monopoly it had with another historic brand for more than 80 years.

The Fazioli pianos are also on stage at prestigious theatres, such as the Teatro La Fenice in Venice, the Palace of Arts in Budapest, and the Beijing Grand Theatre in China. The Fazioli “institutions’ list” includes a remarkable number of schools, like the Paris Conservatoire, the Music Departments at the Universities of Vienna, Graz and Salzburg, the Colburn School in Los Angeles and many others. The Purcell School in London has been nominated as the first “Fazioli Centre of Excellence”, as it is provided with Fazioli pianos in its performance rooms.

Since June 2011, each Fazioli piano has been built saving 1 ton of carbon dioxide thanks to the use of electricity produced by the new photovoltaic system installed on the roof of the Fazioli factory.

The works for expanding the piano manufacturing facilities are being completed. This will almost double the production area and allow us to reach the goal of 150-170 pianos per year in the future.