OPERAVERONA OSPITA IL M° ROMOLO GESSI

Born in Trieste, Italy, Maestro Gessi completed his musical studies at the Trieste Conservatory.

Further conducting studies ensued at the State Conservatoire of St.Petersburg, under Musin and Kukuskin, at the Wiener Meisterkurse für Dirigenten in Vienna under Julius Kalmar, and at the Accademia Musicale in Pescara under Donato Renzetti, obtaining Diplomas with the highest marks.

He has won many awards, including ”best performance” at the Opera Conducting Competition of Caserta, and first prize at the International Austro-Hungarian Conducting Competition of Vienna and Pécs.

He was appointed professor of Conducting at the Conservatorio “Verdi” of Milan. Since 1997 he has been teaching conducting at the European Academy in Vicenza. He is also professor of Chamber Music at the National Music Conservatory of Trieste.

He is Music Director of the Friuli Venezia Giulia Chamber Orchestra, Principal Guest Conductor of the Pro Musica Salzburg Orchestra and of the Filarmonia Veneta. He has been Music Director of the Cantelli Symphony Orchestra in Milan from 2006 to 2008.
He has conducted many orchestras, such as the Vienna Chamber Orchestra, the State Opera Prague, the Radio Symphony Orchestra Cracow, the Izhevsk’s Russian Philharmonic Orchestra, the Pécs Symphony Orchestra, the Orquestra de Santo André, the Sofia’s Soloists, Milano Classica, I Pomeriggi Musicali di Milano, the Trieste Opera House Philharmonic, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Bari, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Sanremo, the Orchestra Sinfonica di Lecce, the Filarmonica Marchigiana, the Teatro Lirico di Spoleto. in the principal cities of Italy as well as in those of Austria, Brazil, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland, Rumania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland.

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