CONDUCTOR
Salvatore Percacciolo is an opera and concert conductor, and a pianist. He was invited to conduct Il Barbiere di Siviglia by the Nationaltheater in Mannheim, where he was appointed Erste Kapellmeister, and where he also conducted Mozart’s Le Nozze di Figaro, Jerry Bock’s Anatevka, Engelbert Humperdinck’s Hänsel und Gretel, Peter Maxell Davies’s The Lighthouse, Puccini’s Le Villi, Verdi’s Il Trovatore.
He conducted Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia for the opening of the 2021 opera season of Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania. He was invited to conduct the world premiere of Birke Bertelsmeier’s The World to Come, directed by Tilman Hecker, at the Vollgutlager in Berlin with the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester Berlin.
He has been in charge of the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana’s Youth Orchestra where he conducted De Falla’s El Retablo de Maese Pedro with the Figli d’Arte Cuticchio at Teatro Politeama Garibaldi. Among the operas he conducted Lucia di Lammermoor production by Denis Krief at Teatro Lirico in Cagliari, Don Giovanni at Teatro Massimo Bellini in Catania, Rossini’s La Cenerentola at Teatro Greco in Lecce, Tosca and Madama Butterfly at the Puccini Festival in Torre del Lago, La Bohème at the Opera Theatre in Tirana. For the opera season of Teatro Sperimentale in Spoleto, Rossini’s Il Barbiere di Siviglia directed by Paolo Rossi, Britten’s The Rape of Lucretia, Mozart’s Don Giovanni directed by Henning Brockhaus.
He began his activity with A.S.L.I.C.O. Opera Domani conducting Mozart’s La finta semplice, Il flauto magico (revived at the Royal Opera House of Muscat in Oman), Ravel’s L’Heure Espagnole after winning the “Carlo Maria Giulini” prize of the Scuola di Musica di Fiesole and being invited by Lorin Maazel as a “conductor fellow” at the Castleton Festival in Virginia, USA. Maazel indicated Percacciolo as his substitute for Mozart’s Don Giovanni at the Festival he founded, also entrusting him with the world premiere of Derrick Wang’s opera Scalia/Ginsburg.
Salvatore Percacciolo had the opportunity to be an assistant conductor to several opera productions at the Staatsoper in München and Berlin, where his home is now.
His symphonic activity has been with the Orchestra Sinfonica Siciliana, La Toscanini di Parma, the Orchestra di Padova e del Veneto, the Orchestra del Teatro Comunale di Bologna, the Rundfunk Sinfonieorchester in Berlin. He worked with Roberto Cominati, Francesco D’Orazio, James Galway, Giovanni Sollima, Uto Ughi. Since 2020, he has been a pianist with the Philharmonische Camerata of the Berliner Philharmoniker.
Salvatore Percacciolo always paid special attention to youth ensembles, working with several of them in Italy, Germany, Brazil and the USA. An advocate of contemporary music, he has conducted compositions by Nicola Campogrande (Concerto for audience and orchestra), Michael Daugherty, Paolo Marzocchi, Giovanni Ferrauto, as well as scores by Gian Francesco Malipiero Sinfonia del mare, Ildebrando Pizzetti’s Concerto per arpa, Eliodoro Sollima’s Cantata sacra e profana, Giovanni Sollima’s Istoria di Sant’Agata.
A pupil of Piero Bellugi in Florence, in 2010 he graduated with merit at the “Scuola dell’Opera Italiana” in Bologna, where he studied opera repertoire with Bruno Bartoletti and Nicola Luisotti, and then with Jorma Panula in Finland and Lorin Maazel in the USA. He graduated in piano at the “A. Corelli” Conservatory in Messina, studied composition at the “A. Scarlatti” Conservatory in Palermo . obtained a Master’s degree in “High School Orchestra Conducting” at the “U. Giordano” Conservatory in Foggia.
For NAXOS Salvatore Percacciolo recently recorded a CD with music by Baska, Hidas, Krek and Papandopulo for piccolo flute, soloist Francesco Viola, with the Orchestra of the National Theatre in Mannheim.
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