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PRESIDENT OF THE JURY

VITTORIO PARISI was born in Milan, where he studied at the G. Verdi Conservatory, focusing on piano with Piero Rattalino, composition with Azio Corghi, and orchestral conducting, beginning with Mario Gusella and continuing with Gianluigi Gelmetti, whom he later served as assistant for many years. He furthered his training in the Netherlands with the great Russian conductor Kirill Kondrashin.He began his career at a very young age in 1979 and has conducted most of the leading Italian symphonic and opera orchestras. He has also conducted in Germany, France, Switzerland, Spain, Poland, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria, Albania, Slovakia, Kazakhstan, the United States, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, collaborating with renowned soloists, singers, and prominent stage directors.From 1984 to 1988, he was the principal conductor of the Angelicum Orchestra in Milan. He later served as Artistic and Principal Director of the Solisti Aquilani from 2003 to 2005, and since 1995 he has been the conductor of the dèdalo ensemble in Brescia.He has recorded for labels such as Naxos, Nuova Era, Stradivarius, Bongiovanni, and Dynamic, and has conducted a large number of world premieres by major Italian composers of the 20th and 21st centuries, starting with Goffredo Petrassi, and including collaborations with Luciano Berio and John Cage.Since 1997, he has been teaching Orchestral Conducting at the Milan Conservatory. Many of his students have won international competitions and gone on to successful careers.

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VITO CLEMENTE He won the International Franco Capuana Competition for orchestra conductors of the European Community with the competition piece being Puccini’s “Manon Lescaut.” He graduated with honors in Orchestra Conducting, Composition, Piano, Chamber Vocal Music, Band Instrumentation, Choir Direction, and Choral Music from the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari, later refining his skills at the Chigiana Academy.After completing humanities studies, he graduated with honors in musical disciplines. He is the artistic and musical director of the Traetta Opera Festival, AMIFest, the Japan Apulia Festival in Tokyo, the Tokyo Academy of Music, and Idea Press Musical Editions USA in New York. He serves as an artistic consultant for the Tokyo Musica Association.He was the musical director of the opera season at the Teatro della Fortuna in Fano, the Lucana Symphony Orchestra, and a guest conductor for ensembles such as I.C.O. Sinfonica di Bari, I.C.O. di Lecce, O.T.Li.S., Orchestra Rossini, Tokyo Chamber Opera Theatre, and OperaSai in Tokyo.In Italy, he conducted orchestras including those of the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Arena di Verona, Teatro Petruzzelli, Filarmonica Toscanini, Teatro Marrucino di Chieti, Teatro Vittorio Emanuele di Messina, Orchestra Filarmonica Marchigiana, Pro Arte, Milano Classica, Sinfonica Abruzzese, Sinfonica di Sanremo, Bergamo Musica Festival Orchestra, Philharmonia Mediterranea, Filarmonica Italiana, Benedetto Marcello, Orchestra di Grosseto, Orchestra del Friuli Venezia Giulia, Filarmonica Bulgara di Plovdiv, and Solisti di Astana.Since 2004, he has conducted in the most prestigious theaters in Japan. He has recorded over twenty CDs and DVDs for Dynamic, Bongiovanni, Tactus, and DigressioneMusic. He has approximately 150 world premieres to his credit. He has made television and radio recordings for Rai1, Rai3, Raisat, Canale5, Rete4. He conducts masterclasses internationally for orchestra conductors and singers.As the winner of the national competition for titles and exams, he is a professor of Harmony Theory and Analysis at the Niccolò Piccinni Conservatory in Bari. He is currently the artistic director of the I.C.O. Sinfonica della Città Metropolitana di Bari

GIULIO MARAZIA Born in 1983, he graduated in horn, music education, and composition from the “G. Martucci” Conservatory in Salerno and in piano from the “N. Piccinni” Conservatory in Bari. He studied orchestral conducting with Nicola Hansalick Samale, Piero Bellugi, and Vittorio Parisi, graduating from the “G. Verdi” Conservatory in Milan with the highest honors cum laude. He attended masterclasses and advanced courses in orchestral conducting at the Chigiana Academy in Siena with Gianluigi Gelmetti and in Liège at the Opera Royale de Wallonie with Paolo Arrivabeni. He has published several works including compositions, orchestrations, and essays, such as Paride, Festa Mobile, Messa S. Cecilia, Messa S. Francesco, Il Paesaggio Evocato, for a listening education of the birdsong by O. Messiaen, published by Gaia Editrice. Since 2016, he has been composing for Da Vinci Publishing, with which he has published four works for orchestra: La Voce a Te dovuta, Movimento Sinfonico, La Stanza dei Burattini (orchestration from the homonymous piano suite by Oderigi Lusi), French Songs (orchestration of chamber lyrics)..

EDMONDO MOSE’ SAVIO studied piano under the guidance of Masters S. Marengoni and E. Firmo. He graduated with top marks in choral conducting and Gregorian chant from the Pontifical Institute of Sacred Music in Milan. He was selected among the top 12 participants in the International Courses for Conductors at the Teatro di Como, dedicated to Maestro F. Ferrara, under the guidance of Maestro L. Salomon; he also participated in the five-year course for conductors with H. Swarowski in Vimodrone (Milan) under the guidance of Maestro J. Kalmar. As an organist and choir director, he has won several national and international competitions. He graduated with top marks in Composition with Maestro P. Cattaneo at the “G. Donizetti” Conservatory in Bergamo. Since 2016, he has been a guest at the international festival Vicenza in Lirica, conducting numerous concerts and prestigious artists such as Anastasia Stashkevic and Vyacheslav Lopatin, Glauco Bertagnin, Barbara Frittoli, Sara Mingardo, Chiara Milini, and Marta Pluda. Since 2020, he has been a member of the National Association of Italian Choir Directors. In 2022, he conducted Mozart’s opera Don Giovanni at the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza, featuring the role winners of the International Competition named after T. Serafin; this was a production of the Vicenza in Lirica Festival, with which he has collaborated since 2016 for various productions. He has conducted in theaters and locations such as: Terme di Caracalla in Rome, the Roman Amphitheater in the archaeological park of Pompeii, the Sporting Club Theater in Monte Carlo, the Park of the Royal Palace of Caserta, the Grand Theater G. Puccini in Torre del Lago, St. Mark’s Square in Venice, the Sferisterio Theater in Macerata, Villa V. Bellini in Catania, Villa Erba Park by Lake Como, Hallenstadion in Zurich, and Teatro Arcimboldi and the Arena di Verona. He recorded two concerts with Il Volo at the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento, a UNESCO World Heritage site since 1997 and a unique archaeological site; one with a Christmas theme that will air on Canale 5 on Christmas Eve 2024, and the other for the American broadcaster Public Broadcasting Service.

FRANCESCO PERRI is a composer and conductor. After completing his classical studies at the age of 16, he graduated in Piano, Composition, Instrumentation for band, and Orchestra Conducting. He earned his degrees in D.A.M.S. and Philosophy with top marks and honors. Alongside his musical teaching activities, he engages in intensive experimental research in the field of electronic music at the D.A.M.S. (2001/2002) of the University of Calabria, focusing on generative music and musical automation in collaboration with the University Parkside – Wisconsin (USA); he is currently a member of the scientific committee at the Intelligence Soundscape Laboratory of the University of Calabria. He has performed approximately 500 concerts in Italy and abroad (France, Bulgaria, Canada, Germany, Argentina, and the United States). A student of Bellugi, Pavlov, and Gergiev, in 1999 he was among the founders of the Calabrian Symphony Orchestra SerrEnsemble, which won the Sallentum award in 2001, and he conducted it for more than 10 years of activity.

Graduated in Musical Direction from the Conservatório Superior de Música de Gaia, under the guidance of Maestro Mário Mateus, ARTUR PINHO MARIA studied with Anton de Beer, Edgar Saramago, John Roos, Vianey da Cruz, Jean-Marc Burfin, Peppe Prates, Vasco Pearce de Azevedo, José Luís Borges Coelho, Ivo Cruz, António Vassalo Lourenço, and Ernst Schelle. He was the artistic director and principal conductor of the Orquestra Clássica do Centro from 2010 to 2012 and has also conducted, as a guest conductor, the Orquestra Filarmonia das Beiras, the Orquestra do Norte, the Orquestra op. 21, the Orquestra Espoarte, the Orquestra Clássica do Centro, the Orquestra Filarmonia de Gaia, the Orquestra da Fundação Conservatório Regional de Gaia, the Orquestra Clássica da Madeira, the Orquestra dell’Opera in the Academy and the City, and the Orquestra do Atlântico. He is currently the principal conductor and artistic director of the Orquestra Inês de Castro and an administrator of the Movimento Musical Cooperativo. He is also the principal conductor and artistic director of the Coro Sinfónico Inês de Castro, the orfeão of Vale de Cambra, and the Orfeon Académico de Coimbra. As a guest conductor, he has conducted several choirs, including the Ensemble Vocal Pro Musica, the Choir of the Music Department of the University of Minho, the Academic Choir of the University of Minho, the Chamber Choir of Amarante, the Choir of the Ancient Orfeonists of the University of Coimbra, the Municipal Choir Marquês de Pombal, the Coral de Sant’Ana, the Grupo Coral de Maçainhas, the Medical Choir of Lisbon, the Nova Era Schola, and the orfeão Tomás Alcaide. From 2015 to 2020, he was a guest assistant at the Music Department of the University of Minho. He has been responsible for various choral conducting courses and vocal technique masterclasses. Together with Maestro Edgar Saramago, he has been in charge of the Choral Conducting and Vocal Technique Course in Vila Franca de Xira since its first edition.

The conductor JOHANNES RIEGER, born into a family of musicians in Munich, founded the MÜNCHNER JUGENDKAMMERENSEMBLE at the age of fifteen, with which he realized numerous concerts and opera projects in collaboration with the cultural department of the Bavarian capital. After studying conducting at the Hochschule für Musik in Munich and attending advanced courses in Salzburg and Siena, he worked as a choirmaster at the ULMER THEATER from 1991 to 1996. In 1995, he became the resident conductor of the Kammerorchester EUROPEAN MUSIC PROJECT, specializing in modern and contemporary classical music. Since the beginning of the 2000/2001 season, he has been the principal conductor of the NORDHARZER STÄDTEBUNDTHEATER in Halberstadt/Quedlinburg. Since 2009, he has been the superintendent of the Nordharzer Städtebundtheater. In 2013, he received the cultural award from the city of Halberstadt, which recognizes special commitment to culture in the city. In recent years, he has worked as a guest conductor with numerous orchestras and opera theaters, such as the Bamberger Symphoniker, the Staatstheater am Gärtnerplatz, the Neue Philharmonie Westfalen, the Münchner Rundfunkorchester, the NDR Radiophilharmonie, the Philharmonisches Orchester of Regensburg, the Südwestdeutsche Philharmonie, the Landestheater of Detmold, the Jenaer Philharmonie, the Lüneburger Symphoniker, and the Pfalztheater of Kaiserslautern. In 2006, he conducted the Orchestra da Camera della Scala in Milan for the first time in Italy, and in the following years, he conducted several other Italian orchestras in Florence, Rome, Sanremo, Grosseto, and Milan.