Francesco Angelico

Francesco Angelico was born in Caltagirone, Sicily, in 1977.

In 2001 he completed his studies in cello at the Conservatory in Modena.  In 2003 he began his conducting studies with Giorgio Bernasconi at the Conservatory in Lugano, which he completed in 2006. During this time he was Assistant to Bernasconi in the series for contemporary music „900 Passato e presente“, presented by Swiss Radio  in Lugano.

Francesco Angelico has undertaken study with Carlo-Maria Giulini, Jorma Panula in Moscow, Amsterdam and Kuopio (Finland), and with Zoltán Pesko while at the Bartok Festival in Szombathely, Hungary. He now studies at the Musikhochschule in Hannover.

Since April 2007 he has held a scholarship with the Dirigentenforums des Deutschen Musikrats and here has taken part in masterclasses with Georg Fritzsch, Sir Colin Metters and Peter Gülke, amongst others.

Francesco Angelico has conducted the Nuovo Studio Foce Lugano, Ensemble Opus 21, Savaria Symphony Orchestra Szombathely, the orchestra at the Conservatory in Lugano, the Philharmonische Orchester Altenburg-Gera, Rheinische Philharmonie Koblenz and Symphonieorchester Hannover. In 2009 Francesco Angelico conducted the Danish National Symphony Orchestra in Copenhagen.

In the field of opera repertoire, he has conducted Il Telefono by Gian Carlo Menotti in Lugano and the chamber opera Das Tagebuch der Anne Frank by Grigori Frid in Hannover. In early 2007 he assisted at the Staatsoper Hannover in Dallapiccola’s Il prigioniero. In October 2007, he made his debut with Beethoven’s Fidelio at Staatstheater Tirana and, in 2009, conducted Mozarts Le nozze di Figaro in Hannover.

Forthcoming projects include conducting Ariadne auf Naxos in Gelsenkirchen in November 2009 and assisting at Opera Leipzig in early 2010. He makes his debut in May 2010 with Nordwestdeutschen Philharmonie Herford.

In 2009 Francesco Angelico won second prize in Copenhagen’s Malko Competition and was awarded the „1. Deutschen Operettenpreis für junge Dirigenten der Oper Leipzig“. In the same year, he received the Rhein-Mosel-Preis, an award recognising excellence in young conductors.

SEASON 2009/2010