Maestro Fabio Mastrangelo (Conductor)
Within a short period of time, Fabio
Mastrangelo has been appointed in rapid succession Principal Guest Conductor of
both the Novosibirsk Symphony Orchestra, and the National Symphony Orchestra of
Tatarstan (Khazan), Artistic Director of the Ensemble “Camerata” of the
Novosibirsk State Philharmonic, Conductor at the Mariinsky Theatre, and
Principal Guest Conductor of the Ekaterimburg Opera and Ballet Theatre. In
addition, since 2006, he is the Musical Advisor for the “Fondazione Lirico
Sinfonica Petruzzelli di Bari”, Italy’s youngest lyric foundation recently
joining a prestigious list that includes Milan La Scala, Venice La Fenice, and
Naples San Carlo. Since moving to St. Petersburg, he has been garnering wide
recognition as Yuri Temirkanov’s substitute at the helm of the famed St.
Petersburg Philharmonic – most recently in a concert at the Tchaikovsky Hall in
Moscow and, earlier, conducting a concert in honour of Russian President
Vladimir Putin.
Born in Bari in 1965, he began piano studies there under his father at age 5.
He later graduated from the Conservatorio Piccinni of Bari under Pierluigi
Camicia, the Conservatory of Geneva under Maria Tipo, and the Royal Academy of
Music in London, where he was granted a Piano Performer Diploma. He attended
masterclasses with Aldo Ciccolini, Seymour Lipkin, and Paul Badura-Skoda and won
1st prize in the piano competitions of Osimo (1980) and Rome (1986).
His earliest experience with his city’s opera theatre (Teatro Petruzzelli)
was in 1986 as a repetiteur working alongside conductors Donato Renzetti and
Evelino Pidт as well as prominent singers such as Katia Ricciarelli, Raina
Kabaivanska, and Piero Cappuccilli. Conducting studies followed at the Pescara
Academy of Music, under Gilberto Serembe, and at the University of Toronto,
under Michel Tabachnik and Richard Bradshaw. He also studied under Leonard
Bernstein and Karl Цsterreicher in Vienna, Gustav Meier at Ann Arbor, Michigan,
and attended masterclasses under Neeme Jдrvi and Jorma Panula. A graduate of the
University of Toronto, in 1996 he founded the chamber orchestra Virtuosi di
Toronto, comprised of players from the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, holding the
position of Music Director until 2003. In addition he spent nine years as Music
Director of the University of Toronto’s Hart House Chamber Strings. As a guest
conductor he has led the National Academy Orchestra (Hamilton), the Windsor
Symphony, the Manitoba Chamber Orchestra, the Winnipeg Symphony, the
Kitchener-Waterloo Symphony, the National Arts Centre Orchestra (Ottawa), the
Vancouver Opera Orchestra, the Brantford Symphony, the University of North
Carolina Symphony (Greensboro), as well as the Szeged Symphony (Hungary), the
Pдrnu Symphony (Estonia), the Tampere Philharmonic (Finland), the Wiener
Festival Strings (Heiligenkreuzer Herbst Festival), the Berliner
Philharmonisches Kammerorchester, the National Symphony of Ukraine (Kiev), the
Bacau Philharmonic (Romania), and the Sinfonietta Riga. In Italy, he has
conducted the symphony orchestras of Bari, Taranto, Palermo, and Pescara, the
Filarmonica di Roma, the Filarmonica del Teatro Petruzzelli (Bari), and the
‘Solisti di Napoli’.
In Russia, since 1999, he has conducted the St Petersburg Orchestra
‘Klassika’, the St Petersburg State Symphony Orchestra, the St Petersburg
Hermitage Orchestra, the St Petersburg State Capella, the Symphony Orchestra of
the Mariinsky Theatre, the Karelia Philharmonic, the Kislovodsk Symphony, and
the Arkhangelsk State Chamber Orchestra. He has been regularly leading both
orchestras of the St Petersburg Philharmonic (including a 2003 tour in
Italy).
Fabio Mastrangelo has recorded the complete orchestral works of Elisabetta
Brusa in two CDs for Naxos. For two seasons, he was Music Director of Bari’s
Societб dei Concerti Orchestra which he twice led on tour to Japan. As a pianist
Fabio Mastrangelo has performed an extended cycle of Mozart Piano Concertos with
the Hart House Chamber Strings, conducting from the keyboard. Between 2001 and
2006, he was Artistic Director of the festival Etoiles du Chateau de Chailly
(Chailly-sur-Armanзon, France) where he regularly performed chamber music. He is
often heard in recitals with the Russian ‘cellist Sergei Slovachevsky, with whom
he released two CDs for the Japanese label Ongaku-no-Tomo, and with his wife
flutist Olesia Tertychnaia. He made his St Petersburg operatic debut conducting
La traviata at the Mussorgsky State Theatre, where he later conducted a staged
production of Verdi’s Requiem. At the St Petersburg Conservatory Bolshoi Theatre
he has conducted La Boheme, Tosca and the Russian all time premiere of
Donizetti’s Anna Bolena, which he has also taken on a tour of Russia (including
a concert performance at the Large Hall of the Moscow Conservatory). Last
February, he made his debut with a new production of Kalman’s Sylva at the St.
Petersburg Comic Opera, where he will also conduct a new production of Madam
Pompadour (May ’08).
Future engagements include return appearances as a guest conductor at the St.
Petersburg Philharmonic, with the Symphony Orchestras of Bari, and
Nizhni-Novgorod, the Philharmonic Orchestras of Nice, Moscow, and Rudolfstadt
(Germany), the National Symphony of Lithuania. He recently conducted Rigoletto,
and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Night Before Christmas in Voronezh (upcoming is a new
production of Boheme), and has undertaken repertoire performances of Tosca,
Madama Butterfly, Boheme, Rigoletto, Traviata, Magic Flute, Evgeni Onegin, and
Barbiere di Siviglia in Ekaterimburg, (will also debut with Prokofieff’s Romeo
and Julia, and Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker), new productions of Tosca, and Otello
at the Mariinsky Theatre, Trovatore at the Latvian National Opera in Riga, Aida
and Evgeni Onegin at the forthcoming re-opening of the Petruzzelli Theatre in
Bari, Lucia di Lammermoor in Minsk.
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