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Damian Iorio (Conductor)
"Showing remarkable attention to detail and refinement of taste this charismatic and gifted young conductor captivated the audience."
Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi, Milan
Damian Iorio has already been Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Murmansk and he now conducts orchestras like the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic, Orchestre National de Belgique, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Estonian National Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Iceland Symphony orchestras. This season's debuts include the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow and Orchestra della Svizzera Italiana in Lugano. After completing violin studies in Britain and the USA he became a member of the Danish National Radio Symphony Orchestra. Whilst there he also studied conducting in St Petersburg before taking up his position in Murmansk where he was the catalyst in the subsequent success and growth of the orchestra. He has a wide range of repertoire which centres on the late romantic and early 20th century then stretches in opposite directions to the earlier classical period and forward to the contemporary with his Italian/Anglo family background and Nordic/Russian periods being a clear, but not exclusive, influence. He has appeared at several international festivals including the prestigious Esterhazy Haydn Festival, Bratislava Festival, Musical Olympus Festival in St Petersburg and Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen. He enjoys working with many youth orchestras in Europe and is currently Resident Conductor of The National Youth Strings Academy in the UK.
Highlights last season included debuts at Bonn Opera conducting Puccini's "Turandot", the National Orchestra of Belgium (with an immediate re-invitation) and Aarhus Symphony Orchestra as well as return visits to Het Gelders Orkest, Teatro Regio di Torino and Orchestra Sinfonica Giuseppe Verdi in Milan. Previous recent highlights included his debut with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra in Amsterdam's Concertgebouw and Orchestre National de Belgique (both with immediate re-invitations), Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Prague Philharmonia as well as a production of La Bohème in Italy. Future engagements include a return to the Noord Nederlands Orkest in Groningen for an Opera Gala.
Damian Iorio's opera work has seen him conduct Verdi's "Macbeth" at Glyndebourne Festival Opera and Smetana's "The Bartered Bride" at Opera de Paris. His US debut at Central City Opera in Colorado with Britten's "The Rape of Lucretia" was much admired by the international press. ﾊHe has conducted for Norwegian Opera several times and also at many of the Italian opera houses including Como (" ... the Ango-Italian conductor Damian Iorio, who led a Bohème that was as fascinating and full of colour as a painting by Renoir"), Brescia and Trento. In St Petersburg he conducted the third ever production in Russia of Britten's "The Turn of the Screw" and, in Moscow, the Russian premiere of Michael Nyman's "The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat" which was nominated for Best Opera Production at the 2004 Golden Mask Festival.
Damian Iorio was born in London to a family of Italian and English musicians. He is married with a young family and lives in Italy. In 2006 he received the Knight of the Order of Sant'Agata from the Republic of San Marino in recognition for his services to music there.
February 2012
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