Marco Cortesi

Dialects: Italian-swiss, Various italian dialects: Romano, veneto, napoletano, milanese, siciliano. I have a perfect french and english pronounciation. I can very well play parts where the actor has a strong foreign accent: a french, german or english guy speaking italian or an italian guy trying to speak german, french or english. I can get my voice to sound ten years younger or older (I am 48)

I'm a specialized reader for documentaries (Narrator, voiceover) steadily collaborating with the national swiss TV. I am also very busy with commercials; among others I am (or have been) the official voice for Hyundai, Audi, Alfa Mito, Credit Suisse, Valser, Swisscom (corporate italian voice since 1995), Zweifel, and many others. I am a jazz musician and composer (degreed at SJS, Bern) and worked in the field for around 20 years. I have 5 CDs out as a band leader (guitarist) and a strong experience as a jazz performer. I started using my voice as a radio conductor in 1990: I was introducing jazz concerts for the national radio for about 3 years. In 1993 I followed a speaker clinc organized by the national italian TV that included several visits to studios in Milan. At the same time I attended a speaker clinic for advertisement held by an italian actor and a voice coach at Digilab studios (Lugano) Later that same year, I was hired as a speaker by the italian-swiss national TV (RSI). In 1995 I was chosen as italian corporate voice for Swisscom. In 2010 I followed a professional seminary (4 hours a week for 28 weeks) for film dubbing held by Director Patrizia Salmoiraghi, awarded in Italy with national prices for best cartoon dubbing direction (Geronimo Stilton). My own semi professional studio has a mute cab and is equipped with: Rode NT1000 microphone Valve MicPreamp Motu 2408 w/PCI 424 Powermac G5 DAW: Digital Performer 7 Easy access to an ISDN professional linked studio: Digilab recording studios, CH-6944 Cureglia (Lugano) I have a decent knowledge with the use of Digital Performer (I published in 2000 an home made CD) and the vaste choice of Audio Units and virtual instruments available nowadays. I have a decent amount of clients for which I work at home and send the voice takes via ftp.