Gianluca Marcianò
Conductor
Born in 1976 at La Spezia in Italy, Maestro Marcianò started his piano studies at the Neapolitan school of Vincenzo Vitale. He went on to study with M. Piernarciso Masi at the Music Academy of Florence. He also studied with Dmitri Bashkirov, Joaquin Achucarro and Paolo Restani, as well as Massimiliano Damerini for contemporary music. He won several national and international competitions for young musicians, making his recital debut when he was ten years old. Since then, he performed in some of the most famous concert halls around the world.
As a coach and head of music staff, he worked in many of the most important Italian venues, such as the Teatro Regio di Parma during Verdi's Anniversary in 2001 (Verdi Opera Studio), Teatro Carlo Felice di Genova, Maggio Musicale Fiorentino, and the International Competition Beato Pio IX in Rome. He has been the personal coach of Fabio Armiliato, Roberto Servile and Luisa Maragliano. He has been invited to be a jury member in several competitions for singers.
In 2002 the Maestro was invited to SNG Opera in Balet Ljubljana and worked there as assistant of M. Loris Voltolini, increasing his operatic repertoire. He also assisted M. Dieter Rossberg for Faust and Offenbach's Die Rheinnixen (world premiere on stage in 2005), receiving a special thanks from Boosey and Hawks for his work in that project. During the 2006-07 season he stepped in at short notice to HNK Opera Zagreb to conduct performances of Nabucco and Il Barbiere di Siviglia, without any rehearsal. These performances were very successful and, as a result, the theater invited him to be the artistic leader of the opera production and the first conductor of the house. He is a guest conductor of the Chamber Orchestra of Slovenian Soloists KOS (he recorded with this orchestra for RTV Slovenia), Romanian Philharmonic Ion Dimitrescu, Ploiest Philharmonic, Orchestra Gli Armonici, Kamerata Kiev, and the Orchestra Ente De Carolis - Sassari. The following artsts have sung under his baton: Paoletta Marrocu, Donata D'Annunzio Lombardi, Nino Surguladze, Alexandru Agache, Zoran Todorovich, Anna Cuo', Inva Mula, Irina Lungu, Elisabetta Fiorillo, Ermonela Jaho, Dario Schmunck, Zeljko Lucic and others.
In 2007 he made his debut at the Poly Theater in Beijing conducting the Drama Dance at Opera Orchestra of Beijing, and he is now their principal guest conductor. In November 2007 the Maestro made his Italian operatic conducting debut at Teatro Verdi in Sassari with the Italian premiere of Debussy's La Damoiselle Elue and Poulenc's Les Mamelles de Tiresias. One critic wrote, "Very inspired and attractive direction of Gianluca Marcianò, a conductor who has already a long and important career out of Italy and who has got the maximum from the Debussy's instrumentation and the rhythmic style of Poulenc." Another reviewed, "The young conductor Gianluca Marcianò always has in his hands the show leading with authority a very good company of singers." Yet another critic said, "The music direction of the 31-year-old conductor, Gianluca Marcianò, was exciting."
Next on the schedule in 2008 is a gala concert in April with Andrea Bocelli and Beijing Symphony Orchestra in Beijing, as well as Gianluca's UK operatic debut conducting La Traviata at Longborough Festival Opera.