Damian Iorio is a regular guest conductor in Europe, Scandinavia and Russia. Among the orchestras he has conducted are the London Philharmonic, BBC Symphony, Estonian National Symphony, Danish National Radio Symphony, St Petersburg Philharmonic and the Iceland Symphony Orchestras, and he has taken part in international festivals such as the Esterhazy Haydn Festival, Bratislava Festival, Musical Olympus Festival in St Petersburg and Tivoli Festival in Copenhagen.

In the UK he made his debut at Glyndebourne Festival Opera last season with performances of Verdi Macbeth where he worked alongside Vladimir Jurowski.

Now based in Italy, Damian has had great success with many important Italian orchestras in Rome, Turin, Palermo and Milan, and has conducted successful new productions of Britten's Albert Herring with the Accademia della Scala, Milan, and Maggio Musicale, Florence, and Britten's Curlew River at the opera houses of Trento and Pisa.

Damian is a frequent guest conductor throughout Russia, where he works with orchestras such as the St Petersburg Philharmonic, the State Hermitage Chamber Orchestra in St Petersburg and the Novosibirsk State Philharmonic Chamber Orchestra. From 1999 to 2005, Damian was Artistic Director and Chief Conductor of the Philharmonic Orchestra of Murmansk, with whom he has toured Russia and Scandinavia, and was central to the development of an important and unique collaboration with Norwegian National Opera (Den Norske Opera). Together they have given performances of operas such as Puccini Tosca, Verdi La Traviata and Tchaikovsky Eugene Onegin.

Damian's work in Russia also includes the 3rd ever production of Benjamin Britten's opera The Turn of the Screw, with performances in St Petersburg and Novosibirsk, and the Russian premiere, in Moscow, of Michael Nyman's opera The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat, which received great acclaim both from critics and the public as well as from the composer, and was nominated for Best Opera Production at the 2004 Golden Mask Festival.

Recent and forthcoming highlights include a new production of Britten The Rape of Lucretia at Central City Opera, Colorado, a performance of Smetana The Bartered Bride at Opera de Paris, his debuts with the Orchestre de Picardie and Estonian National Symphony Orchestra, return visits to I Pomeriggi Musicali in Milan and the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and a studio recording with the BBC Symphony Orchestra.

In 2006 Damian was bestowed the title Knight of the Order of Sant'Agata, Republic of San Marino, in recognition of his services to music in that state.

Born in London in a family of Italian and English musicians, Damian studied conducting with Alexander Polishchuk and Ilya Musin in St Petersburg after completing violin studies with Yossi Zivoni in the UK and Franco Gulli in the USA.


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Last updated February 2008