“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, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Estonian National Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic and Iceland Symphony orchestras. This season’s debuts include the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow.
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 at 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 include 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 include his debut with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Prague Philharmonia as well as a production of La Bohème in Italy. Future engagements include his debut with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, a return to the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for concerts in The Netherlands and Germany, La Traviata in Amsterdam and Nabucco in Milan.
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 recent US debut at Central City Opera in Colorado with Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia” was much admired by the international press. He has conducted for Norwegian Opera several times and also conducted 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. He received the Knight of the Order of Sant’Agata from the Republic of San Marino in recognition for his services to music there in 2006.
Biography
“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, Orchestra Sinfonica Nazionale della RAI, Estonian National Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic and Iceland Symphony orchestras. This season’s debuts include the Detroit Symphony Orchestra and Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow.
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 at 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 include 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 include his debut with the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic in Amsterdam’s Concertgebouw, Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne and Prague Philharmonia as well as a production of La Bohème in Italy. Future engagements include his debut with the Tchaikovsky Symphony Orchestra in Moscow, a return to the Netherlands Radio Philharmonic for concerts in The Netherlands and Germany, La Traviata in Amsterdam and Nabucco in Milan.
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 recent US debut at Central City Opera in Colorado with Britten’s “The Rape of Lucretia” was much admired by the international press. He has conducted for Norwegian Opera several times and also conducted 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. He received the Knight of the Order of Sant’Agata from the Republic of San Marino in recognition for his services to music there in 2006.