Orchestra conductors
ALAIN GUINGAL
Among the most recent hits are Rigoletto at the Korea National Opera of Seoul, Manon at ABAO in Bilbao and Roméo et Juliette at the Opera de Nice and at Teatro Calderon in Valladolid, Wether at the New Israeli Opera in Tel Aviv.
ALAIN
GUINGAL
FELIX HORNBACHNER
FELIX
HORNBACHNER
FABIO MASTRANGELO
Fabio Mastrangelo was born in Bari (Italy). He began his piano studies under his father’s guidance at the age of five. Mastrangelo later graduated from the Conservatorio di Musica Niccolò Piccinni di Bari, the Conservatoire de Musique de Genève under Maria Tipo and the Royal Academy of Music in London. He has attended masterclasses of Aldo Ciccolini, Seymour Lipkin and Paul Badura-Skoda. Mastrangelo won 1st prize at the international piano competitions of Osimo (1980) and Rome (1986). Twice finalist in the Mario Gusella International Conducting Competition (Pescara, Italy, 1993 and 1995). From 1996 to 2003 he was Director of the chamber orchestra Virtuosi di Toronto, founded by him. Between 2001 and 2006 Mastrangelo was Artistic Director of the festival Étoiles du Château de Chailly (Chailly-sur-Armançon, France). Moved to Russia in 2002 and made his debut at the Mikhailovsky Theatre where he conducted La traviata and Verdi’s Requiem. Since 2013 Mastrangelo has held the position of Artistic Director of the St Petersburg Music Hall Theatre (since March 2023 the Chaliapin St Petersburg State Musical Theatre); he is also Principal Conductor of its two orchestras – the St Petersburg Northern Sinfonia Orchestra (symphony orchestra; founded in 2016) and the St Petersburg Northern Sinfonietta Сhamber Orchestra (founded in 2015). His previous appointments include that of Principal Guest Conductor (2007–2009) and Principal Conductor (2009–2010) of the Yekaterinburg State Academic Opera and Ballet Theatre, Principal Guest Conductor of the Novosibirsk Academic Symphony Orchestra and Artistic Director of the Ensemble of Soloists Novosibirsk Kamerata (2007–2021), Principal Conductor of the State Hermitage Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Tatarstan National Symphony Orchestra and Musical Advisor of the Teatro Petruzzelli in Bari as well as Principal Guest Conductor of the Teatro Carlo Felice in Genoa (2021–2022). In 2007 Mastrangelo started his collaboration with the Mariinsky Theatre, and he was its Guest Conductor for several years. In June 2008 the musician made his debut at the Stars of the White Nights festival. At the Mariinsky Theatre he conducted the productions of Aida, Rigoletto, La traviata, La forza del destino, Simon Boccanegra and I vespri siciliani. Mastrangelo currently serves as Principal Conductor of the State Symphonic Orchestra Symphonica ARTica of the State Philharmonic of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) (since 2012) and the Russian Philharmonic – Moscow City Symphony (since 2018), Principal Guest Conductor of the Ulyanovsk State Academic Symphony Orchestra (since 2021; was also its Artistic Director from 2021 to 2022). He holds the position of Artistic Director of the festival All Together Opera in St Petersburg and the Music and Arts Festival Tremolo in Tolyatti (Samara Region). Has appeared at the Bolshoi Theatre of Russia, the Moscow International Performing Arts Centre, the Tchaikovsky Concert Hall, the Kolobov Novaya Opera Theatre of Moscow, the St Petersburg Philharmonia, the Teatro dell’Opera di Roma (has conducted performance of Aida staged by Robert Wilson), the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Court Theatre in the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Conservatorio di Musica San Pietro a Majella in Naples, the Arena di Verona, the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago and the Taormina Arte festival (Sicily) among many other venues. Has conducted the State Academic Symphony Orchestra of Russia (Svetlanov Symphony Orchestra), the National Philharmonic Orchestra of Russia, the Moscow Virtuosi State Chamber Orchestra, the State Symphony Orchestra Novaya Rossiya, the Moscow Philharmonic Orchestra, the Aarhus Symfoniorkester (Denmark), the Czech National Symphony Orchestra, the Radio Television of Serbia Symphony Orchestra and the Thüringer Symphoniker among other ensembles. On the Naxos label he has recorded Elisabetta Brusa’s works with the National Symphony Orchestra of Ukraine (2 CDs, 2002). Recipient of the St Petersburg City Government Prize for Culture and Arts for 2017 (for organising and running the festival The Word and Music – for a Great City as part of the St Petersburg International Book Salon) and the Triumph International prize (2018); recipient of the Star of Academician Dmitry Sergeyevich Likhachev medal of the Galaxy of Talents International Competition (St Petersburg, 2019). President of the Fabio Mastrangelo Foundation for the Development of Musical Arts (since 2015). In 2016 Mt. Mastrangelo was awarded as Honoured Artist of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia).
FABIO
MASTRANGELO
STEVEN MERCURIO
Mercurio has performed in the symphonic repertoire with the London Philharmonia, the London Philharmonic, the London Sinfonietta, the Symphony Orchestra of Vienna, Luxembourg, the Prague Philharmonia, the Symphonic Orchestras of Sydney, Pittsburg, New Jersey, Sacramento and San Diego. He has conducted symphonic works and pieces for various television broadcasts, including the series “Christmas in Vienna” with the Vienna Symphony Orchestra for Sony Classical, in which the “Three Tenors” participated in 1999, and the television program “American Dream – Concert by Andrea Bocelli at the Statue of Liberty ” on the public broadcaster PBS with theNew Jersey Symphony Orchestra.
He conducted the the American premiere of Zemlinsky’s Der Zwerg for the Spoleto Festival in Charleston and Italian for the Rome Opera House; for the Spoleto Festival in Italy, he conducted Menotti’s opera Goya (recorded for the Nuova Era label) Puccini’s Triptych, Wozzeck di Berg, Korngold’s Die Tote Stadt, Shostakovich’s The Nose and Symphony No 1 by John Corigliano. In Turin he conducted Andre Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, in Palermo and Rome the Italian premiere of Kurt Weill’s Lady in the Dark, a new staging of La Traviata at the Staatsoper in Bonn, La Bohème and in San Francisco Les Contes d’Hoffman.
Among his latest successes we note the direction of The Passanger at the Florida Grand Opera and at the Michigan Opera Theater, Cyrano at the Michigan Opera Theater and at the Opera Carolina, Andrea Chénier at the Lajatico Theater.
Recent recordings include: Il Trovatore, I Pagliacci and Cavalleria Rusticana for Decca Records, and Manon Lescaut with the Teatro de la Maestranza in Seville. Solo album recordings include Verdi Arias with soprano Daniela Dessì, Romance and Canzoni, and a tribute to Beniamino Gigli with tenor Fabio Armiliato. His collaboration with SONY Classics has produced a large number of recordings including: Christmas in Vienna with Carreras, Domingo and Pavarotti, on CD and video, as well as a CD with Grammy Award-winning Chick Corea. Mercurio is active in creating arrangements for a large number of internationally renowned artists, including Andrea Bocelli, Placido Domingo, Fabio Armiliato, Carl Tanner, Ben Heppner, Bryn Terfel, Marcello Giordani, Secret Garden and Sting.
STEVEN
MERCURIO
Francesco
Omassini
MATTEO PARMEGGIANI
Bolognese, born in 1988, he studied the piano from an early age and then graduated from the “G. B. Martini” of Bologna in composition with M. Gianpaolo Luppi, and in orchestral conducting with M. Luciano Acocella graduating with honors. He specialized at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana under the guidance of Daniele Gatti and Luciano Acocella. It is Daniele Gatti who entrusts him with the direction of the final concert of the masterclass at the Teatro dei Rozzi, also winning the recommendation for the San Remo Symphony Orchestra. In 2012 he won the First Prize at the “Galletti Conducting Competition” in Bologna. As assistant of M. Acocella he participates in the productions of “Roméo et Juliette” by C. Gounod, “Carmen” by G. Bizet, “La Traviata” by G. Verdi and “Adelaide di Borgogna” by G. Rossini in the theaters of Marseilles , Liège, Rouen, Wildbad.
2015 marks his operatic debut with “La Gazza Ladra” by G. Rossini at the Teatro Duse in Bologna, in collaboration with the “Bologna Festival”. Also in 2015 he conducted Enrico Dindo in the Concerto for cello and orchestra in B minor by A. Dvorak and the Symphony No. 9 “from the new world” followed by the debut at the Teatro Comunale in Modena, in collaboration with Maestro Quirino Principe; the First Concerto in E flat major for violin and orchestra by N. Paganini (soloist Anastasiya Petryshak), Poema by E. Chausson (soloist Laura Marzadori) for the “Bologna Festival”, the Concerto n. 1 for piano and orchestra by P. I. Tchaikovsky (soloist Sofya Gulyak); a show dedicated to Verdi with the Choir of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna again for the “Bologna Festival” and the “Petite Messe Solennelle” by G. Rossini at the Auditorium Manzoni. Other commitments include: “L’Elisir d’Amore” by G. Donizetti, new production at the Teatro Duse in Bologna and the Teatro Nuovo in Ferrara, in collaboration with the Teatro Comunale and the Scuola dell’Opera di Bologna; “The Barber of Seville – Opera Camion”, production of the Rome Opera in Bologna, Milan and Camerino; a series of concerts with the UAEH Symphony Orchestra in Mexico and with the Orchestra San Remo Symphony. Noteworthy is the debut in 2019 in “Le Nozze di Figaro” at the Teatro Duse in Bologna. Also in 2019 an important concert which sees the performance of the Concerto for oboe and orchestra by W. A. Mozart (soloist the first oboe of the Teatro Comunale of Bologna Paolo Grazia) and the First symphony by G. Mahler, at the Teatro Manzoni in Bologna. He has the honor of collaborating with orchestras and foundations such as the Italian Youth Orchestra, the Venetian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Sesto Armonico Orchestra, the European Youth Orchestra, the Orchestra of the Philharmonic Academy of Bologna, the Sanremo Symphony Orchestra, Toscanini and the Senzaspine Orchestra, of which he is the founder, musical and artistic director. In addition to what has already been mentioned, over the years he has activated collaborations with renowned soloists such as Enrico Dindo, Bruno Philippe, Dejan Bogdanovich, Jonathan Roozeman, Bruno Praticò, Alessandro Liberatore, Sandra Pastrana, Cristina Melis. He also collaborates with prestigious international festivals such as the Bologna Festival, Musica Insieme, the Anima Mundi Festival, the Amiata Piano Festival (Artistic Director Maurizio Baglini and Silvia Chiesa), the New Generation Festival in Florence, the Micat in Vertice festival in Siena, the Riemergence festival of Eur Culture Rome, Paganini Guitar Festival.
In 2017 he began a fruitful collaboration with the Il Volo trio, which continues to this day. With them he conducted in important squares and in prestigious stages including that of the Milan Cathedral and the Verona Arena. Since 2019 he has been called every year as Conductor in the “Prodigi” broadcast in prime time on RAI 1. At the same time, a close collaboration with M° Vessicchio begins. Under the indication of Maestro Vessicchio in 2022 he entered the world of musicals, directing “Sette spose per sette brothers” at the Teatro Brancaccio in Rome, with the direction and choreography of Luciano Cannito. In April 2022 he made his debut in a new production of “Rigoletto” at the Teatro Duse in Bologna which will be revived in the Teatro Comunale in Modena, in the Teatro Stignani in Imola and in the Teatro Consorziale in Budrio, in collaboration with the Luciano Pavarotti Foundation, with which starts a fruitful collaboration. In July 2022 he conducts a concert with the Arturo Toscanini Philharmonic in Piazza del Campo in Siena in front of about 5000 spectators, in collaboration with the Chigiana Academy of Siena. In September 2022 he conducted a concert in Piazza Maggiore in Bologna as part of the Bologna Festival season. Also in 2022 he conducted a symphonic concert at the Stignani Theater in Imola organized by the International Academy of Imola “Incontri col Maestro”. Alongside his profession as conductor, he also works as a teacher and composer: his compositions have been performed at the Teatro Comunale in Bologna, at the Teatro Sociale in Como and in Lecce, he has also written some arrangements for the Filarmonica del Comunale in Bologna. He has been teaching since 2010 in various music schools in Bologna and its province as conductor of children’s and youth orchestras. Since 2019 he has been a permanent member of the Staff of the summer courses of the Accademia Chigiana in Siena, within the Orchestra Conducting course held by maestro Daniele Gatti, who chooses him as his assistant for the course. In 2021 he became professor of Orchestra Conducting for the students of the Applied Music course at the G.B.Martini Conservatory in Bologna.
MATTEO
PARMEGGIANI
FRANCESCO QUATTROCCHI
He has been invited by prestigious institutions including: Verdi Theater in Trieste, Petruzzelli Theater in Bari, Dubai Opera, Royal Opera House Muscat-Oman, Helikon Opera in Moscow, Sofia Opera, Teatro Comunale in Bologna, Scarlatti Festival of the Teatro Massimo in Palermo, Solis-Montevideo Theater, Montevideo Philharmonic Orchestra, Valle d’Itria Festival, 17th Century Ensemble, International Orchestra of Italy, etc.
In collaboration with Expo2015, he conducted Rossini’s Moses, the first opera made in stage form inside the Milan Cathedral, and inaugurated the Dubai Opera with great personal success by conducting the symphonic gala Opera without words and Rossini’s Il barbiere di Siviglia.
FRANCESCO
QUATTROCCHI
LORENZO TAZZIERI
Born in Genoa in 1985, Maestro Lorenzo Tazzieri is one of the most accredited exponents of the new Italian generation of orchestra conductors. At just 38, he is principal conductor of the Tokyo Metropolitan Opera Foundation, artistic director of the Genoa International Music Youth Festival, the Batumi International Music Festival (Under Sky) and the Chile Opera Festival, the first opera festival in the country. He was recently the youngest musician awarded by the Mayor of Genoa and by the President of the Senate of the Italian Republic with the title of Ambassador of Genoa in the World.
The operatic debut took place in March 2010 with J. Massenet’s “Werther” at the Wielki Theater in Poznan. His rich career path, especially abroad, brought him into contact with various realities, laying the foundations for prestigious collaborations: in Japan with Yokohama Minato Mirai Hall, Nagoya Civic Concert Hall, Sendai Opera House (“La Bohème”) and Toyota City Concert Hall (“La Bohème”, “La Traviata” and “L’Elisir d’Amore”); in China with Harbin City Concert Hall and Deluxe Concert Hall (Chengdu); in the Middle East Amman Opera Festival (“La Traviata” and “La Boheme”); in South and Central America with Teatro Biobio – Orquesta Sinfónica Universidad de Concepción (“Madama Butterfly”), Gran Teatro Nacional of Lima (“Madama Butterfly” and Gala Vedi/Puccini), Teatro Municipal of Lima (“Pagliacci” / ”Adiós a la Bohemia” and “Don Giovanni”), Teatro São Pedro di São Paulo (“Cavalleria Rusticana”), Teatro Nacional Miguel Angel Asturias (Città del Guatemala), Teatro Nacional Ruben Dario (Managua), Teatro Teresa Careño (Caracas), Teatro Municipal di Cuzco, Orquesta Nacional de Guatemala, Camerata Bach (Managua) and Orquesta Nacional Juvenil de Perù.
His activity in Russia and Eastern Europe was also intense: he directed a Gala dedicated to Paganini in St. Petersburg on the occasion of the opening of the World Economy Forum (Mikhailovsky Palace), in Moscow at the International House of Music (“Cavalleria Rusticana” and “Zanetto”), at Teatro dell’Opera and Ballett of Tirana and at Azerbaijan State Academic Opera and Ballet Theater di Baku (“La Bohème”) and at Štátna Opera of Banská Bystrica (“La Traviata”), Lviv City Hall with Lviv Philarmonic Orchestra, at Batumi Arts & Musical Center (Georgia) (“I Pagliacci” and “Cavalleria Rusticana”) and, at the Opera House, the Opening Opera Gala of the Batumi International Music Festival (under Sky), and at the Kamyanets-Podilsky Opera Miniatyura Festival with (“Turandot”); the collaboration with the Filarmonica de Stat Arad is significant for which in 2011 he takes care of the staging and performs “Cavalleria Rusticana” obtaining a success that leads him to be invited regularly as Guest Conductor also in the following years. He has also conducted the Mihail Jora Philharmonic in Bacau, the George Enescu Philharmonic at the Atheneum in Bucharest, the Ion Dumitrscu Philharmonic in Ramnicu, the orchestra of the Odessa Opera House and the National Philharmonic in Kiev. Also very active in Italy, we note the ongoing relationship with the Zandonai Theater (“Il Trovatore” in 2019, “Madama Butterfly” in 2018, “La Traviata” in 2017, “Tosca” in 2016 and “Il Barbiere di Siviglia” in 2015), the collaboration with the Musica Riva Festival and the direction of the “Cavalleria Rusticana” with the Symphony Orchestra Sicilian at the Ancient Theater of Taormina. In 2011, on the occasion of the celebrations of the 150th Anniversary of the Unification of Italy, upon assignment of artistic assignments by the Italian Ministry of Culture and the Italian Cultural Institutes abroad, he received important acclaim from the public and critics conducting national and international theatres. In the same year, on the occasion of the 60th anniversary of the Italian Cultural Institute in Caracas, he performed concerts with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela at the Cachao Theater and with the Orquesta de Aragua at the Casa Italia Maracay headquarters. In 2017, 2018, 2019 he toured with the Sichuan Philharmonic Orchestra in China, Jordan, Georgia and Italy. In Lima he conducts the Orquesta e Coro Nacional de Perù performing a Verdi Gala to celebrate the bicentenary of the composer from Busseto at the Museo de la Nación.
After having inaugurated with “Madama Butterfly” the first opera festival in Chile (Chile Opera Festival) he became its principal conductor and in this context. He will soon direct “Cavalleria Rusticana” and “I Pagliacci”. He will record a CD dedicated to the Italian symphonic repertoire for Amadeus. Also scheduled: The opening gala of the São Paulo Festival (Brazil), “La Bohème” at the Bicentenario Theater of San Juan (Argentina), “La Traviata” at the Tunis Opera Theater, the Mascagni Gala for the ‘International Music Festival under Sky (Batumi, Georgia), “Tosca” at the Tashkent Opera Theater (Uzbekistan).
Lorenzo Tazzieri began his musical studies at the age of 6, continuing his preparation at the Niccolò Paganini Conservatory (GE), where he first studied violin and then, under the guidance of prof. G. Carlascio, piano. He perfected himself at the Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow with Elena Nathanson, specializing in the Russian repertoire, and in the meantime deepened the study of chamber music with Maestro Massimiliano Damerini. Conducting studies took place under the guidance of Maestros Donato Renzetti and Gilberto Serembe and Maestro Roberto Tolomelli of whom he became assistant collaborating on numerous titles: “Nabucco”, “Aida”, “Norma”, “Bellisario”, “Cinderella ”, “Raymonda”, “Don Carlos”, “Madama Butterfly”, “La Cenerentola”.
Simultaneously with the activity of conductor and artistic direction, he combines that relating to cultural diplomacy by collaborating with the most important cultural, artistic and diplomatic institutions in the world in order to create links between different cultures through music by pursuing the concept of Bridging Culture which is the cornerstone of the ‘Genoa International Music Youth Festival’ co-organized by the International Association of United Cultures and the Municipality of Genoa (Culture Department). Thanks to an international network with public and private institutions around the world in China, Japan, Brazil, Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Lebanon, Russia, Tunisia, Georgia, Ukraine, Romania, Uzbekistan etc. the creation of co-productions in the concert and opera fields is encouraged, as well as projects in the training field. A virtuous example of cultural entrepreneurship that has favored the birth of the Amman Opera Festival (First Opera Festival in the Middle East held at the Roman Amphitheater in Amman, Jordan), the Chile Opera Festival (Concepcion, Chile) and the “Batumi International Music Festival” (Batumi, Georgia) which have obtained unanimous critical acclaim both on an artistic and design level at an international level, as well as an invitation to participate in the ‘Music City Convention’ in Chengdu (China) in 2019 as part of the Good Practices of cultural entrepreneurship.
LORENZO
TAZZIERI
